Since its inception in May 2021, the Global BioLabs initiative has identified notable trends in global data on BSL4 and BSL3+ laboratories and on biorisk management at both the national and international level. Overall, there are several trends that raise biosafety and biosecurity concerns given the global boom in construction of BSL4 and BSL3+ labs, particularly where biorisk management oversight is weak.
In Sept. 2022, the Bulletin launched a year-long task force composed of globally recognized experts to generate new thinking on research with pandemic risk.
GP WMD Counter Disinfo aims to aid understanding of the direct and indirect harms of CBRN disinformation attacks and to develop tools and solutions to counter disinformation narratives pre-emptively, and by doing so to help build a safer and more secure world.