Cooperative Biological Engagement Program

The CBEP provides assistance across the following areas:

• Biosurveillance: Strengthen the capacity for public health and veterinary health systems to detect, diagnose and report infectious disease outbreaks in accordance with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Health Regulations (IHR), the World Organization for Animal Health’s (OIE) and the United Nation’s Food and Agricultural Organization’s (FAO) reporting guidelines.
• Biosafety and Biosecurity: Increase biosafety and biosecurity by securing collections of especially dangerous pathogens into a minimal number of safe and secure facilities that support transparent practices and research. Provide technical consultations, risk assessments, and training courses to build human capacity and internal expertise to create a sustainable culture of laboratory biorisk management.
• Cooperative Biological Research: Enhance global health security and foster safe, secure and sustainable bioscience capacity through joint scientific collaborations designed to help prevent, detect, and respond to biological threats. The research is focused on understanding and reducing biological risk posed by especially dangerous pathogens and emerging infectious diseases relevant to global health security.