The VCDNP and the International Affairs Institute (IAI) organised a webinar on opportunities, threats, and proliferation challenges deriving from bio-technology and bio-engineering, with support from the EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Consortium.
NTI and the VCDNP co-hosted a meeting on June 7, 2022 to explore the possibility of establishing a new “Joint Assessment Mechanism” to strengthen UN-system capabilities to investigate high-consequence biological events of unknown origin.
With the COVID-19 pandemic now approaching its first anniversary, there are still many grey areas related to the virus, including security implications. Dr. Richard Pilch presented an analysis of these issues and offered his recommendations during a webinar on 25 February 2021.
VCDNP Senior Fellow Angela Kane participated in a tabletop exercise on biological weapons attacks on the sidelines of the 2019 Munich Security Conference.
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