Biosafety and Biosecurity
Practical Insights and Applications for Low and Middle-Income Countries

There are many guidelines, protocols and advisories that outline how biosafety and biosecurity can be adopted by institutions around the world. Whilst helpful, many of these are tailored to affluent Western nations. This leaves developing nations far behind since their laboratories and institutions are resource-scarce and biosafety and biosecurity are not mainstreamed entirely among the different laboratory workers, healthcare professionals, researchers, and academics.

Biosafety and Biosecurity: Practical Insights and Applications for Low and Medium-Income Countries aims to bridge this gap by comprehensively summarizing the state and development of biosafety and biosecurity in developing and developed nations in a comparative analysis. This book includes basic concepts and principles of biosafety and biosecurity, including certification and legal frameworks, both international and local, and biosafety and biosecurity across disciplines including environmental, medical, and special topics that are relevant to countries with comparable conditions. This proposed book solves the problem of the lack of a prescribed professional title that comprehensively summarizes the state and development of biosafety and biosecurity throughout the world, allowing the reader a 360 view of the subject area.

This book will appeal to a global audience of biorisk officers, health and safety professionals and specialists in the life sciences, health and allied fields, environmental science, engineering, and plant and animal agriculture.

1. introduction to Biosafety and Biosecurity in the Philippines. 2. Philippine Biosafety and Biosecurity Regulations: From Global Response to Domestic Realities. 3. Principles of Biosafety in Resource Limited Settings. 4. Principles and Concepts of Biosecurity. 5. Performing Risk Assessments in Biological Laboratories. 6. Minimizing Environmental Footprints of Biological Wastes through Biosafety and Biosecurity Measures. 7. Biosafety and Biosecurity in the Academe. 8. Hazards to Harmony: Biosafety and Biosecurity Practice in Healthcare Settings. 9. The Threats of Transboundary Plant Pathogens: A Perspective on Philippines’ Plant Biosecurity. 10. Biosafety and Biosecurity in Laboratory Animal Facilities. 11. Mycological Biosafety and Biosecurity in the Philippines. 12. Genetically Modified Organisms in Research and Biotechnology. 13. Reinvigorating Vigilance: Updates on Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases in the Philippines. 14. Biosafety and Biosecurity in the time of the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic. 15. Engineering Designs for Biological Laboratories.

Jonathan Jaime G. Guerrero is a certified biorisk officer (CBO), trained under the third cohort of the Philippine Advanced Biorisk Officer Training Program (PhABOT) of the National Training Center for Biosafety and Biosecurity of the University of the Philippines Manila in 2015. He has a master’s degree in Plant Pathology from the University of the Philippines Los Baños and is currently pursuing a dual degree in Doctor of Medicine - Master in Public Health (MD-MPH), a joint program of the University of the Philippines Manila College of Medicine and College of Public Health.

Rohani Cena-Navarro is a veterinarian and Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, National Institutes of Health-University of the Philippines Manila and Assistant Director at the National Training Center for Biosafety and Biosecurity (NTCBB) NIH-UP Manila. She earned her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from the University of the Philippines, Los Banos in 2010. After graduation, she pursued her MS graduate studies in Veterinary Medicine, studying pathology of viral diseases at the Laboratory of Animal Diseases, Chonnam National University, South Korea. After joining UP-NIH in 2014, she became the Chair of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC). She also served as the Chair of the UP Manila Institutional Biosafety and Biosecurity Committee (IBBC) from 2019-2022. Dr. Cena received her certification as a Biosafety Officer under the Philippine Advanced Biorisk Officers Training in 2015 and is also a Certified Professional by the International Federation of Biosafety Associations. As an advocate of biosafety, she led several capacity-building projects in promoting biosafety and biosecurity awareness in the Philippines through various local and international partners. In 2019, she received a scholarship to represent the Philippines in the Biosecurity Diplomacy Fellowship for Young Scientists from the Global South funded