Warm welcome to new perspectives &active role of #Youth4Biosec Fellows, incl Ms. Pongapannee Phumikiet from 🇹🇭 We support role of youth in driving change&creating the future free from Biothreat. Youth empowerment is not only inclusion, but investment of sustainable peace&security

Announcing the inaugural class of Biosecurity Game Changers Fellows! These eight individuals represent the next generation of leaders responsible for preventing and preparing for worst-case health security challenges. See here for more: pandemics.sph.brown.edu/biosecurity-ga…

We're implementing this fellowship in partnership with institutions focused on solutions at the intersection of #biosecurity and #globalhealth including CEPI IBBIS Pandemic Action Network BWC Implementation Support Unit Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and in consultation with Africa CDC World Health Organization (WHO) Global Health Emergency Corps.

About the #Youth4Biosec poster exhibition in a few photos! Congratulations to the winners 🏆 BWC Implementation Support Unit UNODA Geneva NTI #1972BWC

Delighted to be visiting Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator this morning with the #Youth4Biosec 2024 cohort where fellows are taking part in a synthetic biology diplomacy simulation game designed specifically for them. Thank you GESDA for supporting the Fellowship!

Thank you to all the panellists and participants who joined today's event on Taking Stock of #BWC National Implementation, co-organized with VERTIC 📊 What a fantastic way to celebrate the 1st anniversary of our #BWCNIMDatabase! 🎉

We were delighted to welcome the two newest #1972BWC States Parties 🇹🇻 and 🇫🇲, as well as 🇰🇮 as Observer State to the WG session this week. We thank the 🇪🇺 EU at the UN - Geneva #MultilateralismMatters for supporting this visit through the sponsorship programme

We hosted Youth for Biosecurity Fellows & @UNODA colleagues for a briefing on science anticipation & diplomacy, and simulation on synthetic biology. Fellows role played stakeholders with competing interests, negotiated to avoid a crisis, and explored multi-level tech governance.

📍 Geneva, Switzerland From 19 to 23 August 2024, ODA hosted delegations from the Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati and Tuvalu, which also participated in the Fourth Session of the Working Group on the strengthening of the #BWC. 📎 disarmament.unoda.org/update/visit-a…

From June to August 2024, the ODA carried out the second edition of the Youth for Biosecurity Fellowship Programme, which envisaged the participation of 20 young scientists from the Global South. 📎 disarmament.unoda.org/update/2024-yo…