Addressing Biosecurity Barriers in High-Risk Biological Research

David R Gillum¹, Randy A Albrecht¹, Rebecca Caruso¹+21

• ¹David R. Gillum, PhD, is Associate Vice President, Compliance and Research Administration, University of Nevada, Reno, and Co-Founder, Tutela Strategies, LLC.; both in Reno, NV. Randy A. Albrecht, PhD, is Senior Director, Biosafety, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY. Rebecca Caruso, MPH, is Director, Committee on Microbiological Safety, Office of Biological Safety, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Amanda Craigen is Biological Safety Officer, Environmental Health and Safety, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. Lesley Decker, MS, is a Biosafety Manager, Environmental Health and Safety, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Haley L. DeMers, PhD, is Director, BSL-3 Training Program, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA. Colleen Driskill is Director of Biosafety and Select Agent Responsible Official, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA. Robert Foreman, PhD, is Biosafety Officer, Research Safety, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL. Deborah Howard, MPH, Expert, Global Environment, Environment Health and Safety, BASF Corporation, Durham, NC. Barbara Johnson, PhD, is Owner, Biosafety Biosecurity International, Merritt Island, FL. Jens H. Kuhn, PhD, is Principal Scientist and Director of Virology (Tunnell Government Services Contractor), Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD. Yong-Bee Lim, PhD, is Associate Director, Global Risk, Federation of American Scientists, Washington, DC. Rebecca L. Moritz, MS, is Co-Founder, Tutela Strategies, LLC, Reno, NV. Corrie Ntiforo, MSPH, is Director, Department of Biosafety, University of Texas Medical Branch; Galveston, TX. Luis Alberto Ochoa Carrera is High-Containment Lab and Pandemic Safety Manager, Environmental Health and Safety Office, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI. Gregory Park, PhD, is Director, Office of Biotechnology Activities Oversight, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. Christina L. Pier, MS, is a Select Agent Responsible Official, Environment, Health, and Safety, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. Antony Schwartz, PhD, is Director, Biological Safety Division, Occupational and Environmental Safety Office, Duke University, Durham, NC. Adrian Self is Operations Research Analyst, National Agricultural Biosecurity Center, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS. Megan Shoff, PhD, is Institutional Biosafety Program Manager and Animal Biological Safety Officer, Research Compliance and Biosafety, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. Paul Skoglund, PhD, is Institutional Biosafety Committee Coordinator, Environmental Health and Safety, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. Mary Turlington-Powell, MS, Director, Biosafety and Biosecurity, and Kathleen M. Vogel, PhD, is Associate Dean and Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, College of Global Futures; both at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. Hsiang-Ming Wang, PhD, is Director, Environmental Health and Safety, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX.