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Proposed Changes to U.S. Policy on Potential Pandemic Pathogen Oversight and Implementation

Year: 2020

Type: editorial

Abstract: We propose here changes to the U.S. government policy on potential pandemic pathogen (PPP) oversight and implementation, emphasizing transparency of the review process and the content of the review, publication of the review in advance, responsible publication of enhanced PPP research, high-level signoff on approvals of enhanced PPP experiments, and the need for a significant effort to establish a common international approach to enhanced PPP work. We advocate that the U.S. government recommend, and non-U.S. government funders and journals adopt, a set of best practices that would extend important considerations of biosafety and biosecurity to all work on enhanced potential pandemic pathogens regardless of funding source.

Source: mSphere

DOI: 10.1128/msphere.00990-19

Authors: Thomas V. Inglesby, Marc Lipsitch

Institutions: Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security

Language: English

Topic: Global Security and Public Health

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $3,500

OpenAlex ID: W3002635879

Cites: 2

Cited by: 12

Related to: 10