Focus Areas

Deliberate Biological Threats

Our Center identifies, analyzes, and informs leaders about new and emerging threats to the public’s health and security.

Recent Projects

The BWC Global Forum: Biotech, Biosecurity & Beyond
Supported by: Open Philanthropy Project

International Guidelines for Biosecurity Ethics
Supported by: The Office of Foreign Consequence Management, US Department of State

Boosting NATO Resilience to Biological Threats
Supported by: Open Philanthropy Project

Combating Health-Related Misinformation
Supported by: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Johns Hopkins University Catalyst Award, National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM), and Open Philanthropy (past funding support)

PASCC US: India Biosecurity Dialogue
Supported by: Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), Naval Postgraduate School, Project on Advanced Systems and Concepts for Countering WMD

Recent Publications

Fighting the infodemic: the 4 i Framework for Advancing Communication and Trust

India–United States Track 1.5 Strategic Biosecurity Dialogue, Report from the Ninth Dialogue Session

BWC assurance: increasing certainty in BWC compliance

Improving U.S. Biosafety and Biosecurity: Revisiting Recommendations from the Federal Experts Security Advisory Panel and the Fast Track Action Committee on Select Agent Regulations

Infodemic Management Approaches Leading up to, During, and Following the COVID-19 Pandemic

Building Strong Biosafety and Biosecurity into the Expanding US Bioeconomy

Measuring the Burden of Infodemics: Summary of the Methods and Results of the Fifth WHO Infodemic Management Conference

Discussion on the Future Science and Technology of Biological Attribution

Analyzing Social Media Messaging on Masks and Vaccines: A Case Study on Misinformation During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Biological Weapons Convention should endorse the Tianjin Biosecurity Guidelines for Codes of Conduct