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Global subject programme

Global subject programme

Priorities of Biotechnology and Biosecurity shared across countries, and the methods used to compare them. A global programme is a shared agenda, not a claim of global offices.

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Health and biosecurity, Food and agriculture
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Programme portfolio

Biotechnology and biosecurity · Global subject programme

Portfolio viewGCRI · Biotechnology and Biosecurity

Where the work sits

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Portfolio

Institution AOversight framework reviewTestAt risk
Biomanufacturing siteIncident reporting systemBuildOn track
Diagnostic networkDiagnostic capacity mappingScopingOn track
National committeeDual-use research policyScopingOn track

Decisions waiting on owners

  1. D-1Oversight framework reviewResearch institution · decision record7 d
  2. D-2Incident reporting systemInstitutional biosafety committee · decision record5 d
  3. D-3Diagnostic capacity mappingBiosafety officer · decision record3 d

Biotechnology and Biosecurity · Programme portfolioProgramme portfolio, in outline: domain structure with placeholder names and illustrative values, not a record.

01In brief

The short answer.

The Biotechnology and Biosecurity global programme is the shared agenda of priorities in the health and biosecurity field that cut across countries, such as synthetic biology and dual use and ethics, with the methods used to compare them. It is an agenda, not a claim of global offices, and each element shows its status from the programme record.

02Canvas

Scoping to review.

Canvas · scoping to reviewDesign, not a record
Global subject programme: the policy cycleA problem reaches the agenda, options are formulated and appraised, consultation tests them, the mandate holder decides, implementation and monitoring follow, and evaluation feeds the next agenda. Design of the process, not a record of a run.

Fig.A programme from scoping to the owner's decision. Design, not a record.

03Geography

Environmental exposure in West Africa.

For global subject programme, in GCRI's spatial-intelligence reading, the map opens on crop greenness, population density, daytime surface heat and true-colour imagery, framed on West Africa; 2 further NASA layers wait in the list.

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Layers 4

Environmental exposure, for this page

Latest available

NASA GIBS / EOSDIS · ASTER GDEM (METI, NASA) · Blue Marble (NASA) · © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Natural Earth

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For global subject programme, in GCRI's spatial-intelligence reading, the map opens on crop greenness, population density, daytime surface heat and true-colour imagery, framed on West Africa; 2 further NASA layers wait in the list.Satellite and model products as NASA publishes them, each with its own date; indicators, not assessments of any place; claim ceiling INTEGRATED.

Data: NASA GIBS · ASTER GDEM · Blue Marble · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Natural Earth · Copernicus Sentinel-2 L2ASources and licences

  • We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • MODIS land products (vegetation indices, gross primary production, land cover), NASA LP DAAC and LANCE; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University. 2018. Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Density, Revision 11. NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). CC BY 4.0
  • VIIRS near-real-time products (flood, land surface temperature, snow cover, corrected reflectance), NASA LANCE; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • ASTER GDEM is a product of METI and NASA (ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model V003, NASA LP DAAC); imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • Made with Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com. Public domain
  • © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), via NASA GIBS (coastlines, boundaries, roads and place names). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). ODbL
  • Blue Marble, NASA Earth Observatory; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • Context on the globe and flat map: coastlines, boundaries, roads and place names from NASA GIBS reference layers (OpenStreetMap data, ODbL, © OpenStreetMap contributors); Blue Marble imagery as an optional base; 3D terrain and the elevation read-out from the ASTER GDEM elevation colour index (5 m to 200 m classes, exaggerated for legibility). Boundaries are drawn as published and imply no position on any territory.
  • Globe: MapLibre GL JS 6.9.1, BSD-3-Clause, © MapLibre contributors.
  • Observed (EO): Copernicus Sentinel-2 L2A (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026), Microsoft Planetary Computer
  • Optional layers (14 sources in the layer list: live, forecast, observed and context) print their provider credit on the map and here when switched on; forecasts are model output and derived indices are estimates.

Layers and dates

  • Vegetation greenness (NDVI), rolling 8 days: MODIS Terra NDVI, NASA LANCE · 13 Oct 2026
  • Population density, 2020: Population: CIESIN, Columbia University, Gridded Population of the World v4.11 (2018), NASA SEDAC, CC BY 4.0 · static
  • Land surface temperature, day, 8-day composite: VIIRS NOAA-20 Level 3, 8-day, NASA LANCE · 14 Sep 2026
  • Land cover type (IGBP), yearly: MODIS Terra and Aqua land cover (MCD12Q1), NASA LP DAAC · 2024
  • Gross primary production, 8-day total: MODIS Aqua GPP (MYD17), NASA LP DAAC · 30 Sep 2026
  • True colour: VIIRS NOAA-20 corrected reflectance, NASA LANCE · 13 Oct 2026

04Scope

Global subject programme in Biotechnology and Biosecurity.

  1. 01

    Synthetic biology

    Design-build-test biology and safeguards.

  2. 02

    Biomanufacturing

    Industrial biology and production systems.

  3. 03

    Diagnostics and therapeutics

    Health innovation and evaluation.

  4. 04

    Agricultural biotechnology

    Food system applications and environmental effects.

  5. 05

    Biological threats

    Accidental, natural and deliberate biological risks.

  6. 06

    Lab biosafety and biosecurity

    Research environment controls and governance.

05Global frame

The agreements and bodies a global biosecurity programme reads against.

Process or bodyWhat it sets
Biological Weapons ConventionProhibition and confidence-building measures
International Health RegulationsLaboratory and surveillance capacities
WHO Global guidance framework for the responsible use of the life sciencesGovernance of dual-use risk
Cartagena ProtocolBiosafety of living modified organisms
06Status

Work is shown as its record stands.

Programmes are listed as exploring, forming, constituted, active, paused or archived. Country and regional entries appear when a programme record supports them.

All programmes in Biotechnology and Biosecurity

07Key terms

Terms used on this page.

Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.

TermDefinition
ProgrammeA group of related projects and activities managed together to obtain benefits that managing them separately would not, in the sense the Project Management Institute's programme standard uses.
Results-based managementA management approach in which everyone contributing to a set of results makes sure their processes, products and services serve those results, and measures progress against them, as the UN Development Group handbook sets out.
Theory of changeA stated chain of causes from a programme's activities to its intended outcomes, used to plan evaluation.
BiosafetyMeasures that assess and manage risks to health and the environment from living modified organisms, governed internationally by the Cartagena Protocol.
08Sources

Where this page's references lead.

The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.

09Questions

Questions and answers.

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