At a press conference for the Meeting of States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention Dr Lalitha Sundaram spoke alongside:
- Ambassador Amandeep Gill, Permanent Representative of India to the Conference on Disarmament, Chair of the 2017 BWC Meeting of States Parties
- Tom Inglesby, Director of the Center for Health Security of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Zabta Khan Shinwari, Secretary-General of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences and Chair of the Biotechnology Department of the Quaid-i-Azam University of Islamabad, 2015 Laureate of the Avicenna Prize for Ethics in Science
