Welcome

The National Centre for Biosecurity (NCB) is a joint centre of the Australian National University and the University of Sydney, established to facilitate greater academic engagement with biosecurity challenges facing Australia, Asia, and the world. These challenges include:

• infectious disease outbreaks
• biological weapons and bioterrorism
• dual use dilemmas in the life sciences
• laboratory safety and security, and
• the impacts of disease on economies, societies and governments

The NCB’s approach to biosecurity is multi-disciplinary and collaborative. Our expertise covers a wide variety of disciplines including microbiology, epidemiology, animal health, law, ethics, psychology, economics and international security studies.