Global Forum on BioRisks:
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LATEST NEWS
January 8, 2008
Biological Threat Reduction (BTR) workshop. New Delhi, India
David Heyman and Gerald Epstein led a workshop on governance for biological threat reduction. Non-governmental organizations, local think-tanks, and the Indian government were represented at this workshop, attended by nearly fourty participants. The event was co-hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS).
March 8, 2007
Biodefense in the Department of Homeland Security FY08 Science and Technology Budget
CSIS Senior Fellow Gerald Epstein testified in front of the House Committee on Science and Technology's Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation.
November 30, 2006 On November 30th, David Heyman and Gerald Epstein, co-Directors of CSIS' Biological Threat Reduction project (BTR), presented a new approach to biological threat reduction to delegates at the Sixth Review Conference of the Bioweapons Convention in Geneva. Their briefing, titled “Governance for Biological Threat Reduction: A Comprehensive, Interdisciplinary, International Approach”, described a new framework that could substantially advance steps on a global level to reduce the risk of bioterrorism or other misuse of biology. In the briefing, they presented a blueprint for a new Global BTR Forum, one that could be adopted to implement U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan’s call for a global forum of stakeholders. Under this proposed framework, traditional arms control, nonproliferation, and diplomatic approaches play an important role, but must now be supplemented by new mechanisms to address changing threats, technologies, and times.
April 19-20, 2006
The second meeting of the Center for Strategic and International Studies' (CSIS) Biological Threat Reduction Consortium took place in Tokyo, Japan on April 19 and 20. We will soon post new materials from the meeting on our consortium members page.
September 15-16, 2005
The first meeting of the Center for Strategic and International Studies' (CSIS) Biological Threat Reduction Consortium took place in Brussels, Belgium on September 15 and 16. Experts gathered to discuss biological threat perceptions and worked toward identifying a Global Biological Threat Reduction Agenda.
July 14, 2005
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