Two units of AAAS—the Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy and the Program on Scientific Freedom, Responsibility and Law – have conducted a study of existing biosafety training programs. To address these goals, we convened a group of experts in biosafety, the life sciences, biosecurity, and relevant stakeholders (e.g., architects and engineers), on March 17, 2009 at AAAS to review biosafety training programs and to provide recommendations on how best to design and implement similar programs. With the help of workshop participants, we identified twenty biosafety training programs.
This workshop is one of four workshops on biosecurity education; the first workshop, held on November 21, 2008, addressed education on dual use research for scientists, and the next two workshops will address public health preparedness and biodefense policy.
