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By Region: Asia/Pacific

Center for Biosecurity Meets with Chinese Leaders in Public Health and Science

“China, like the U.S., has had to cope with a range of disease outbreaks in recent years and continues to prepare for future emerging and reemerging infectious disease threats. Over the past few years, the Center for Biosecurity has benefited greatly from policy discussions with government officials and nongovernment leaders in other countries, including Canada,  Read More »

Author:
Trip Report by Tom Inglesby and Anita Cicero
Publish Date:
September 2011

Sixth BWC Review Conference Briefing Book

The British American Security Information Council (BASIC), the Harvard Sussex Program (HSP) and the Verification Research, Training and Information Centre (VERTIC) prepared a Briefing Book for the BWC Sixth Review Conference 2006. The conference was held between 20 November – 8 December 2006 in Geneva, Switzerland. The book was launched at a panel discussion hosted  Read More »

Author:
British American Security Information Council (BASIC), the Harvard Sussex Program (HSP) and the Verification Research, Training and Information Centre (VERTIC)
Publish Date:
2006

BWC Daily Reports and Briefing Notes

In conjunction with the BioWeapons Prevention Project, Richard Guthrie has been producing daily reports from the inter-governmental meetings of the Biological Weapons Convention since 2006. In addition, it has become established practice for States Parties to the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) to meet every five years to review the operation of the Convention, taking  Read More »

Author:
Richard Guthrie, Kai Ilchmann, James Revill, Caitríona McLeish & Paul Nightingale

Seventh BWC Review Conference Briefing Book

This Briefing Book is intended to assist participants in the Seventh Review Conference for the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention. The Seventh BWC Review Conference will be held from 5 to 22 December 2011 in Geneva. The Briefing Book contains relevant key documents. This volume follows a similar layout to the Sixth BWC Review Conference Briefing  Read More »

Author:
Caitriona McLeish, Harvard Sussex Program and Richard Guthrie, CBW Events
Publish Date:
2011

Biosecurity Challenges of the Global Expansion of High Containment Biological Laboratories

During July 10-13, 2011, 68 participants from 32 countries gathered in Istanbul, Turkey for a workshop organized by the United States National Research Council on Anticipating Biosecurity Challenges of the Global Expansion of High-containment Biological Laboratories. The United States Department of State’s Biosecurity Engagement Program sponsored the workshop, which was held in partnership with the  Read More »

Author:
Alison K. Hottes, Benjamin Rusek, and Fran Sharples, Rapporteurs; Committee on Anticipating Biosecurity Challenges of the Global Expansion of High-Containment Biological Laboratories; National Academy of Sciences and National Research Council
Publish Date:
December 2011