A Joint Assessment Mechanism for High-Consequence Biological Events

Biological risks are growing. Naturally-emerging infectious disease events are on the rise, and there is a growing risk of human-caused pandemics through accidental or deliberate misuse of modern bioscience & biotechnology. This side event at the 2022 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) Review Conference will showcase NTI’s work with international partners to develop a new Joint Assessment Mechanism (JAM) to rapidly discern the source of high-consequence biological events when there is ambiguity about their origins.