NTI | bio experts Angela Kane, Jaime Yassif, and Shayna Korol authored an article for the Consejo Argentino para las Relaciones Internacionales (CARI) – the Argentine Council for International Relations – outlining the importance of establishing a Joint Assessment Mechanism (JAM) to discern the source of high-consequence biological events of unknown origin. This new analysis, published within CARI’s Global Health and Human Security Committee in Spanish and English, highlights key reasons why the Latin America and Caribbean region would benefit from the establishment of the JAM. This mechanism, which would be housed within the United Nations Secretary-General’s office, would build on existing UN assessment capabilities. It would bolster international security and address the modern biological risk landscape by establishing the facts regarding biological events of uncertain origins – specifically to help clarify whether the event emerged naturally or was accidentally or deliberately released from an academic, commercial, or government laboratory. Read more about NTI’s work with international partners to establish the JAM here.
Sign up for our newsletter to get the latest on nuclear and biological threats.
A new digital report and companion summary detail the findings and recommendations developed from a tabletop exercise held by NTI | bio and the Munich Security Conference.
NTI | bio experts contributed to the 9th Biological Weapons Convention Review Conference in Geneva.
NTI Senior Advisor Angela Kane joined a prestigious lecture series to discuss steps we can take to prepare for the next biological event on the scale of COVID-19.
