What is the PBS program?
- Approach
- Activities
- Expected Outcomes
Activities
While PBS gears its strategic objectives on the needs and goals of its specific partner countries, it focuses it's activities around four overarching global components:
- Policy Development and ImplementationEvaluating the implications of different country and regional regulatory approaches for genetically modified organisms (GMOs) by developing decision models to assist regulatory agencies. Working to generate new information, provide analysis of practical problems and cases, and make recommendations regarding national and regional regulatory systems and decisionmaking.
- Capacity Building & CommunicationMaintaining an active program of training, education, and capacity-building activities in biosafety to ensure that the people involved in biosafety decisionmaking are competent and confident enough to use the best available science to assess planned releases of GMOs and genetically modified (GM) food products.
- Risk Assessment ResearchProviding a mechanism for competitive grants on biosafety research in Asia and Africa through the Biotechnology-Biodiversity Interface (BBI) grants facility.Download BBI Project Summaries: (PDF 211K)
- Regulatory Approval StrategiesProviding biosafety guidance for product development and helping institutions comply with regulatory requirements; working with regulatory agencies to assist them in developing review, approval and inspection processes, and in creating global resources for training and outreach.