An introduction to biosecurity as it relates to biosafety in facilities handling pathogens and toxins.
Audience: Laboratory personnel, biosafety professionals
Resource Type: E-Learning
Duration: 45 minutes
This course is also available in Portuguese, Spanish, and Arabic.
Update: March 2026
Policies and procedures for security and biosecurity in licenced facilities to manage biosafety.
Audience: Laboratory personnel, biosafety professionals
Resource Type: E-Learning
Duration: 30 minutes
Update: March 2023
Conduct experiments with pathogens responsibly to address potential risks and benefits for unexpected situations.
Audience: Laboratory personnel, biosafety professionals
Resource Type: E-Learning
Duration: 90minutes
Update: July 2023
Understand indicators of inside and outside threats to information and knowledge related to biological research and perform mitigation strategies.
Audience: Individuals who handle and store pathogens and toxins in controlled environments
Resource Type: E-Learning
Duration: 75 minutes
Update: March 2024
On November 28, 2022, the World Health Organization began using ‘mpox’ as the preferred term for monkeypox disease.
Target Audience: External stakeholders planning to, or currently working with, MPXV
Resource Type: Video
Duration: 1 hour
Target Audience: licence holders, biological safety officers, and other personnel who are responsible for developing and implementing biosecurity plans
Resource Type: Video
Duration: 1 hour
In this first episode of the Centre for Biosecurity’s podcast series on sensitive research, host Linda Rheaume speaks with Dr. Martha Crago, Chair of the Council of Canadian Academies’ Expert Panel on Sensitive Research of Concern. The discussion is grounded in the 2025 CCA report Balancing Research Security and Open Science.
Duration: 20 minutes
