Health and Medicine
Supporting the WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) has appointed the Biosafety Center of the Institute for Infectious Diseases at the University of Bern as a "Collaborating Center". The Biosafety Center will support the WHO with advice, training and the development of guidelines and instructions.
The Biosafety Center acts as a nationally and internationally networked competence center in all areas of biosafety. As such, it has now been designated a "Collaborating Center" in the areas of biosafety and biosecurity by the World Health Organization (WHO). Biosafety covers protection against unintentional harm in biological research, while biosecurity refers to protection against its intentional misuse (for example for biological weapons). The IFIK's Biosafety Center is the first and only one in the world to be located at a university and a clinical diagnostic microbiology laboratory.