International Advisory Group

The International Advisory Group on Biosafety and Biosecurity (IAG) is a standing group of experts that meets at least once a year. Members are experts in biosafety, infectious disease surveillance, biosecurity and public policy. They come from the following countries: Russia, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, U.S.A., UK, Sweden, Germany, Japan, Singapore and Canada. Representatives from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the World Health Organization (WHO) also participate.

Main Objectives of the Group  

• To increase awareness of the importance of biosafety and biosecurity within the scientific community, government, industry (public private cooperation) and society more broadly.
• To review, assess, and offer the expertise of national and international programs in biosecurity and biosafety according to international standards.
• To provide recommendations for use by federal agencies and other international entities as needed, on programs and activities to improve biosafety and biosecurity and enhance national and international security.
• To assist, as needed, to help implement new programs and activities.

Method of Operation

• Review and provide advice on biosecurity and biosafety programs and training curricula and elaborate recommendations to appropriate entities as required.
• To review, assess, and offer the expertise of national and international programs in biosecurity and biosafety according to international standards.
• Promote international cooperation between Russian and international experts through national and international conferences, workshops, round-tables and other activities.
• To cooperate with and provide information to federal ministries, agencies, bodies and educational entities on biosecurity and biosafety issues.

The ICLS, in collaboration with the Global Partnership Program of Foreign Affairs Canada, the International Science and Technology Center, the Moscow Medical Academy and NP TEMPO, formed the IAG on biosafety and biosecurity in November 2006.

List of Meetings and Themes

Enhancing Biological Safety and Security: an Agenda for Global Action
April 18-19, 2006
Moscow, Russia

The Russian Government had the presidency of the G8; a group of G8 plus experts were convened to provide recommendations for global action by G8 leaders and beyond.

       

1. Report 
   1. Report Forward
   2. Enhancing Biological Safety and Security an Agenda for Global Action
   3. Russian Version

       

1st Meeting of the IAG
March 27-31, 2007
Heidelberg, Germany

IAG Comments on the WHO Biosecurity Guidelines Document

      

Enhancing Biological Safety and Security: Developing National and International Strategies
November 8-9, 2006
Moscow, Russia 

Final Report

Urgent issues in protecting against biological threats
October 18-19, 2007

Final report

Ensuring national systems of biological safety: practices, concepts, programmes
November 20-21, 2008

 Final Report

IAG Members

IAG members, participating in their own capacity, come from the following organizations:

1. I.M. Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy
2. N.F. Gamaleya Institute of Epidemiology & Microbiology
3. I.I. Mechnikov Institute of Vaccines and Sera
4. SRC of Applied Microbiology & Biotechnology (Obolensk)
5. Federal medical-biological agency
6. SRC VB Vector
7. Novosibirsk State University
8. Ivanovsky Institute of Virology
9. NP TEMPO
10. Chumakov Institute of poliomyelitis and viral encephalitis
11. Central Station of Blood Transfusions FMBA, Russia
12. BioPreparat company
13. Kyrgyz Research Institute of Veterinary
14. SRC T&HRBP FMBA, Serpukhov
15. Kazakh Scientific Centre for Quarantine and Zoonotic Infections
16. Institute of Plant Physiology and Genetics, Tajikistan
17. International Council for the Life Sciences
18. UK Health Protection Agency
19. GANYMED Pharmaceuticals
20. World Health Organization
21. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
22. University Hospital Lund, Sweden
23. UK Health Protection Agency
24. Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
25. Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control
26. Toyama Institute of Health
27. Midwest Research Institute
28. Asia BioBusiness
29. Public Health Agency of Canada
30. Jonathan Richmond and Associates
31. Biotechnology Division, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
32. Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure, UK
33. International Center for Infectious Disease (ICID) of Canada

OBSERVERS

1. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation
2. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Germany
3. International Science and Technology Center
4. Research Institute of Science and Technology for Society, Japan Science and Technology Agency
5. Russian Green Cross
6. Institute of Plant Physiology and Genetics, Tajikistan
7. Institute of Prophylaxis Medicine, Tajikistan
8. National Biotechnology Center, Kazakhstan
9. Department of the State Sanitary & Epidemiological Surveillance, Ministry of Health, Kyrgyzstan

Resources

• Our partner’s website TEMPO: http://eng.nptemp.ru

Get Involved
For more information, please contact Tatiana Elleman at elleman@iclscharter.org