中国工程院院士
2025年1月
序言5
Emerging infectious diseases pose public health safety risks to the world, particularly impacting the economic development and social stability of developing countries. In February 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) initiated negotiations for the pandemic agreement aimed at coordinating member countries to better respond to or prevent the occurrence of the next global pandemic through rapid action.
At the same time, in 2022, the WHO launched projects such as the World Health Organization BioHub System and the International Pathogen Surveillance Network (IPSN). Additionally, it released the ”Global Genomic Surveillance Strategy for Pathogens with Pandemic and Epidemic Potential” and the ”WHO Guiding Principles for Pathogen Genome Data Sharing,” which aimed to enhance global capabilities in the acquisition of biological resources and sequencing analysis.
The core of Article 12 of the WHO Pandemic Agreement, still under negotiation, focuses on establishing a global ”Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing System” (PABS) to ensure the timely and equitable sharing of pathogen resource data and related benefits, thereby maintaining global public health safety. The acquisition and sharing of pathogenic microorganisms that could lead to potential pandemics has become a key focus in the treaty negotiations. The world is currently at a pivotal point in collaboratively addressing the preservation and utilization of pathogenic microorganisms. How to regulate the scientific preservation of pathogenic microorganism resources has become a common challenge we face.
The WHO International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) biobank, as a large-scale storage facility for WHO, actively engages in global biological resource preservation and research. Through the Biobank and Cohort Building Network (BCNet), it supports middle- and low-income countries in enhancing their biological resource preservation capabilities. In 2019, the WHO-IARC signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) to jointly promote capacity building in resource standardization. We are pleased to witness the publication of the book “Systematic Preservation Science of Pathogenic Microorganism Resource” during our collaborative efforts.
We look forward to the China National Pathogen Resource Center not only strengthening its own construction and development in pathogen resource preservation but also actively conducting research on global pathogen resource acquisition and sharing mechanisms. We hope that it can propose international principles and initiatives, offer a Chinese solution, play a role for China, and contribute Chinese wisdom.
We also look forward to more collaborations with our Chinese counterparts in the future!
Ph.D
Head of Laboratory Services and Biobanking,
World Health Organization International Agency for Research on Cancer
ex-President of The International Society for Biological and
Environmental Repositories (ISBER)
Jan, 2025
序言5译文
新发突发传染病给全球带来公共卫生安全风险,尤其是给发展中国家的经济发展、社会稳定带来深刻的影响。世界卫生组织于2022年2月启动世界卫生组织大流行协定(WHO Pandemic Agreement)谈判,旨在协调成员国通过快速响应更好地应对或阻止下一次全球大流行疫情的发生。
与此同时,2022年世界卫生组织启动了生物样本中心(World Health Organization BioHub System,WHO BioHub)、国际病原体监测网络(International Pathogen Surveillance Network,IPSN)等项目,发布了《全球用于大流行或潜在大流行病原体的基因监测战略》(Global genomic surveillance strategy for pathogens with pandemic and epidemic potential)和《世界卫生组织病原体基因数据共享指南原则》(WHO guiding principles for pathogen genome data sharing),推动全球生物资源获取和测序分析等能力提升。
仍然在谈判过程中的“世界卫生组织大流行协定”(WHO Pandemic Agreement)第十二条的核心是通过建立全球“病原体获取和惠益分享系统”(WHO Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing System,PABS),以确保病原体资源数据和相关惠益及时公平地分享,维护全球公共卫生安全。潜在大流行病原微生物获取与共享作为条约重要组成部分已成为协定谈判的重点和焦点。全球正处于一个协商应对病原微生物保藏与利用的关键时期,如何规范科学保藏病原微生物资源已成为当前我们面临的共同课题。
WHO IARC作为世界卫生组织传染病样本库,积极开展了全球资源保藏与研究,并通过Bcnet网络支持中低收入国家提升生物资源保藏能力。2019年WHO IARC与中国疾病预防控制中心
(China CDC)在生物资源领域签订了合作备忘录,共同推进资源标准化等能力建设工作。很高兴在我们合作过程中,见证《病原微生物资源系统保藏学》专著的出版发行。
期待中国国家病原微生物保藏中心在做好病原微生物保藏工作自身建设和发展的同时,积极开展全球病原微生物资源获取和共享机制研究,积极提出国际相关原则和倡议,提出中国方案,发挥中国作用,贡献中国智慧。也期待与中国的同行今后有更多的合作!