This year, the annual A-PBA Biorisk Conference aims to gather global, regional, national biorisk experts and professionals to deliberate issues pertaining to biosafety and biosecurity. The highlight of the conference is focus on matters concerning COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, the theme of this conference is “Biorisk Management: Building Global Resilience During and Post COVID-19 Pandemic”. International biosafety experts and professionals from around the world will be gathered via virtual platform to share their knowledge and experiences learned from this pandemic. Topics to be delivered are include rules and regulation framework for COVID-19, operation in biomedical laboratory, material control and accountability (MC&A), collection, packaging and transportation of COVID-19 samples, diagnosis and monitoring SARS-CoV2 and building global resilience during COVID-19 pandemic (experience sharing from the region/associations). Furthermore, the ISO 35001:2019 on biorisk management for laboratories and other related organisations will be further discussed.

This virtual conference will provide interactive sessions for all biosafety experts, professional, sponsors, exhibitors and participants to exchange their knowledge and experiences, as well as to establish strong partnership and widen the scope of collaboration.