Strengthening Global Systems to Prevent and Respond to High Consequence Biological Threats
Strengthening Global Systems to Prevent and Respond to High Consequence Biological Threats is a November 2021 paper published by the Nuclear Threat Initiative summarizing a tabletop exercise conducted at the 2021 Munich Security Conference. It focuses on a hypothetical scenario involving the global public health response to an intentional release of a lab-manipulated strain of monkeypox, later attributed to terrorists.
The project was funded by Open Philanthropy.
Personnel
Authors
The scenario for the exercise was authored by Jaime Yassif, Kevin O'Prey and Christopher Isaac.1)
O'Prey is a Managing Partner at the Palisades Group.
Margaret Hamburg wrote the introduction.
Participants
Associated organizations
The event was jointly held with the Munich Security Conference. Talus Analytics developed the underlying epidemiological model for the exercise. Long Story Short produced the video content.
Several individuals from the Nuclear Threat Initiative are described as helping organize the event and/or report, including Dr. Andrew Hebbeler, Amanda Cogan, Rachel Staley Grant, and Mimi Hall.
1)
Yassif, J., Kevin, P., O'prey, Christopher, R., & Isaac. (2021). Strengthening Global Systems to Prevent and Respond to High-Consequence Biological Threats. Nuclear Threat Initiative. https://www.nti.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/NTI_Paper_BIO-TTX_Final.pdf