Submission of Evidence to The Cabinet Office Enquiry on The Biological Security Strategy
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Authors
Edwards, Brett
Sutherland, William
Sundaram, Lalitha
O hEigeartaigh, Sean
Petrovan, Silviu
Smith, Rebecca
Danda, Malcolm
Shang, Lijun
Aldridge, David
Publication Date
2022-03-30Publisher
Cabinet Office
Type
Report
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Hobson, T., Edwards, B., Sutherland, W., Sundaram, L., O hEigeartaigh, S., Petrovan, S., Smith, R., et al. (2022). Submission of Evidence to The Cabinet Office Enquiry on The Biological Security Strategy. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.82937
Abstract
This is a joint submission from researchers at the Centre for the Study of Existential Riski and BioRISC - Biosecurity Research Initiative at St Catharine’sii , alongside collaborators from the University of Bath, the University of Bradford and the Biological Security Research Centre at London Metropolitan University.
We argue here that there are a number of cross-cutting lessons to be learned from extant approaches to biosecurity, but that UK biological security — and the role of the UK as a soft-power leader in biosecurity globally — would be greatly enriched by the following:
• Work to enhance the capacity and policy participation of civil society and academic actors in developing and implementing the UK’s biological security strategy on an ongoing basis
• Work to further enhance biosecurity and bioethics education across both practice and policy communities
• Further developing an approach that sees biological security as intrinsically connected to a number of other intersecting concerns, most notably, environmental degradation and climate change.
• Establishing a national coordinating institution to act as a focal point for the UK’s national biological security strategy.
Keywords
biosecurity, policy, UK Government, Biosecurity Education, Collaboration, Civil Society, Horizon Scanning
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This record's DOI: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.82937
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/335923
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