Dual-use research and research using enhanced pathogens in high-income countries: whose business?-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Dual-use research and research using enhanced pathogens in high-income countries: whose business?

Published:2024-07-30 Issue:7 Volume:9 Page:
ISSN:2379-5042
Container-title:mSphere
language:en
Short-container-title:mSphere

Author:

Eyal Nir¹^ORCID,Leshabari Melkizedeck²,Sarker Malabika³⁴

Affiliation:

1. Center for Population-Level Bioethics (IFH), HBSP (SPH), and Philosophy (SAS), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA

2. School of Public Health and Social Sciences, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

3. BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

4. Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

Abstract

ABSTRACT U.S. regulation of dual-use research of concern and of research with enhanced pathogens of pandemic potential may alter soon. Much has been written on the best form for that regulation to take. Less was written on a procedural question: whose voices should shape that regulation? This commentary addresses the latter, the procedural question, regarding the appropriate parties to the deliberations and decisions on this matter. It proposes to U.S. virologists that it would be in the interests of their discipline and only appropriate if that regulation were shaped by many voices from outside the discipline and from outside the United States.

Funder

Longview Philanthropy

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/msphere.00168-24

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