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Global Biosecurity Engagement Activities

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Global Biosecurity Engagement Activities

ISN/CTR’s Biosecurity Engagement Program (BEP) works to mitigate global biological threats by denying state and non-state actors access to biological expertise, materials, and equipment that could be used to develop and disseminate biological weapons. BEP efforts include:

  • Preventing non-state or state actor from acquiring or misapplying high consequence pathogens, biotoxins, and other potentially weaponizable biological materials, dual-use equipment, and/or scientific expertise
  • Securing life science institutions and high consequence pathogens from both insider and outsider threats
  • Assessing and disrupting emerging proliferation pathways related to biological material, dual-use equipment, or WMD-relevant expertise
  • Training foreign partners to identify and deter the use of clandestine bioweapon laboratories by proliferator state and non-state actors
  • Enhancing partner capacity to safely and securely identify, control, and attribute outbreaks caused by high consequence pathogens
  • Partnering with non-scientific interlocutors such as policymakers, law enforcement, military, and diplomatic audiences to prevent biological attacks
  • Promoting the adoption of and compliance with international frameworks that advance biological non-proliferation objectives
  • Identifying and/or disrupting efforts by proliferator states to subvert or evade international biological science treaties/norms through strategic investments or partnerships

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Contacts

Name Position Agency/Department/Org Note
Mr Todd Perry Special Coordinator, UNSCR 1540
Department of State
United States
Mr Stephen Knight Point of Contact
United States Mission to the United Nations
United States

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