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Briefer: The Avian Influenza Outbreak—Ecological and Biological Security Implications
Taking steps now to enhance surveillance, accelerate vaccine testing and development, and improve the security of farms, will help prevent H5N1 from becoming the next pandemic. It is not too late to tackle this threat, but it is ultimately up to us to take action.
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National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity Votes to Support Stricter Regulations for Risky Research
NSABB’s recommendations cover research involving enhanced pandemic potential pathogens, as well as dual-use research of concern.
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RECAP: Congressional Biosecurity Luncheon
By Jackson du Pont On Tuesday, September 27th, the Council on Strategic Risks partnered with Building Stronger Futures to host a Congressional Luncheon with Congressman Ritchie Torres [D-NY] and Dr. Beth Cameron. Rep. Torres introduced Dr. Cameron, who currently serves as a Professor at the Brown University School of Public Health and Senior Advisor to…
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A Threat to Ecological Security from Inter-Species Viral Distributions Driven by Climate Change
By Dr. Marc Kodack Most of the security analysis on climate change effects has been focused on human systems and how people need to mitigate and adapt to those effects. However, these same effects will also create multiple opportunities for humans to become hosts for new pathogens, such as viruses, potentially significantly altering and disrupting…
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Event Summary: COVID-19 Response Technologies & Their Future Role in Pathogen Early Warning
By Lillian Parr On February 23, the Council on Strategic Risks (CSR) hosted a webinar (video below) titled COVID-19 Response Technologies & Their Future Role in Pathogen Early Warning. While pathogen early warning capabilities have been growing and improving for decades, the current pandemic has provided the impetus to rapidly develop and deploy many cutting-edge…
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Event: COVID-19 Response Technologies & Their Future Role in Pathogen Early Warning
By Lillian Parr Join the Council on Strategic Risks as we host COVID-19 Response Technologies & Their Future Role in Pathogen Early Warning on Wednesday, February 23 from 12:00–12:45 EST. RSVP here. This discussion will be hosted by Christine Parthemore, CEO of the Council on Strategic Risks. We are thrilled to host panelists from two…
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BRIEFER: Pathogen Early Warning – New Technologies and Approaches
By Bill Beaver, Sid Sharma M.D., Dr. Jacob Swett, Dr. Nikki Teran, Dr. Natasha Bajema, and Dr. Yong-Bee Lim For the world to be ready for the next pathogen outbreak, it needs to bolster early warning via technologies like metagenomic sequencing, which represents one of the most important avenues for addressing future infectious disease outbreaks. …
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RELEASE: Major Report From Security and Health Analysts Highlights Path Towards a Global Pathogen Early Warning System
July 20, 2021, Washington, DC – As part of a major effort to address growing biothreats, the Council on Strategic Risks (CSR) today released a report that both assesses the current state of biosurveillance in the world, and offers strong recommendations for how to build a “global pathogen early warning system” – one designed to…
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A Recipe for Disaster? Dual-Use Knowledge During COVID
By Yong-Bee Lim Nature Protocols published an article on January 29, 2021 that is making waves in the biorisk community. Titled “Engineering SARS-CoV-2 Using a Reverse Genetic System,” this article outlines a detailed protocol on how researchers can engineer variants of the virus known as SARS-CoV-2: the causative pathogen of COVID-19. Initial reactions to the…