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Apr 27, 2026

Agricultural Security Considerations for the U.S. Corn Belt: Reviewing Key Threats and Mitigation Strategies for Bioresiliency

The authors examine key threat categories to the agricultural industries of the U.S. Corn Belt and identify proactive and integrated approaches to safeguarding U.S. crop production against emerging biological, environmental, and societal risks.
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Apr 6, 2026

Infinite Potential—Insights from the Viral Uplift Scenario: After-Action Report from a Sequence of Day After Artificial General Intelligence Exercises

In this after-action report, the authors describe a series of exercises centered on the misuse of artificial intelligence models to generate novel biological threats and intended to elicit policy options that could help reduce the risks and impact.
Research

Apr 1, 2026

A Framework for Evaluating Implementation, Impact, and Cost-Effectiveness of Wastewater and Environmental Surveillance

This conceptual analysis addresses a program evaluation guidance gap by presenting a modular, evidence-based logic model grounded in wastewater and environmental surveillance evaluations from 2016-2025 across diverse contexts and program types.
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Dec 24, 2025

Preparedness of Public Health Laboratories for Respiratory Infectious Diseases: EU/EEA Country Perspectives on Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic

The purpose of this study was to provide evidence on how to help public health laboratories be better prepared and more resilient to future public health challenges related to respiratory infectious diseases.
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Dec 2, 2025

First convening of the UK Microbial Forensics Consortium 2024: Workshop summary

Workshop findings from the UK Microbial Forensics Consortium highlight gaps in roles, data sharing, forensic capability and communication, offering recommendations to strengthen the UK's ability to investigate and attribute biological threats.
Research

Dec 1, 2025

Strategies to Improve Detection of Novel Pandemic Pathogens: Cost Versus Detection Performance for Promising Pathogen-Agnostic Detection Workflows

To inform decisions that enable the next generation of biosurveillance systems to rapidly detect outbreaks of novel pathogens, the authors evaluated the cost and detection performance of three promising pathogen-agnostic detection strategies.
Research

Nov 25, 2025

Toward Comprehensive Benchmarking of the Biological Knowledge of Frontier Large Language Models

The authors evaluate the most-capable artificial intelligence (AI) models (as of May 2025) against eight knowledge benchmarks to determine the degree to which frontier AI models pose a risk of helping bad actors create biological or chemical weapons.
Expert Insights

Jul 30, 2025

Antimicrobial resistance: addressing the risks: Evidence submission by RAND Europe

This document provides RAND Europe’s submission of evidence in relation to the UK Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee’s Call for Evidence on the risks associated with antimicrobial resistance.
Expert Insights

Jun 30, 2025

Data and AI-Enabled Biological Design: Risks Related to Biological Training Data and Opportunities for Governance

The authors of this paper assess the link between biological data and the capabilities of artificial intelligence models trained on large volumes of biological data, then recommend strategies to limit such potentially dangerous capabilities.
Commentary

Jun 6, 2025

The Pandemic Accord's Dangerous Blind Spot: Laboratory Biosafety and Biosecurity

The fight to stop the next pandemic may well be underway in the sleek, sterile halls of a growing number of biological high-containment laboratories. As these laboratories host crucial research on deadly viruses, true biosafety and biosecurity remain elusive.
Research

May 13, 2025

Identifying and Closing Gaps in the Federal Select Agent Program: Opportunities for Improvement in an Era of Emerging Biotechnologies

In this report, RAND researchers provide an overview of expert-elicited gaps in the Federal Select Agent Program and suggested mitigation measures for those gaps.
Research

Apr 28, 2025

The Evolution of United States Governance Policies for Research Using Pathogens with Enhanced Pandemic Potential

In response to 2012 studies enhancing a deadly pathogen's transmissibility, the U.S. and research community established policies to oversee research on enhanced pathogens with pandemic potential.

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The Case for Sustaining Wastewater Surveillance Capabilities in the U.S.

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Agricultural Security Considerations for the U.S. Corn Belt: Reviewing Key Threats and Mitigation Strategies for Bioresiliency

Infinite Potential—Insights from the Viral Uplift Scenario: After-Action Report from a Sequence of Day After Artificial General Intelligence Exercises

A Framework for Evaluating Implementation, Impact, and Cost-Effectiveness of Wastewater and Environmental Surveillance

Preparedness of Public Health Laboratories for Respiratory Infectious Diseases: EU/EEA Country Perspectives on Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic

First convening of the UK Microbial Forensics Consortium 2024: Workshop summary

Strategies to Improve Detection of Novel Pandemic Pathogens: Cost Versus Detection Performance for Promising Pathogen-Agnostic Detection Workflows

Toward Comprehensive Benchmarking of the Biological Knowledge of Frontier Large Language Models

Antimicrobial resistance: addressing the risks: Evidence submission by RAND Europe

Data and AI-Enabled Biological Design: Risks Related to Biological Training Data and Opportunities for Governance

The Pandemic Accord's Dangerous Blind Spot: Laboratory Biosafety and Biosecurity

Identifying and Closing Gaps in the Federal Select Agent Program: Opportunities for Improvement in an Era of Emerging Biotechnologies

The Evolution of United States Governance Policies for Research Using Pathogens with Enhanced Pandemic Potential

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