WHO is organizing a videoconference on Dual use life science research DUR/C Dialogue with Academies and Councils’. The conference aims at gathering and exchanging different stakeholder perspectives on approaches to DUR/C as well as identifying critical issues in DUR/C from the perspective of academies and councils. Moreover, lessons learned from past experiences on addressing issues and concerns in DUR/C will be highlighted, providing an opportunity to identify key priority areas for action and appropriate areas for collaboration with different stakeholder groups.

Representatives of organizations such as the InterAcademy Partnership, IAP Regional Networks EASAC and AASSA, the International Science Council (ISC), the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), and of academies such as the US National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Academy of Science of South Africa  and the Swiss Academy of Sciences will join.