• Upon WHO’s request, to hold vaccinia seed virus and its reference materials required for the production and the potency testing of smallpox vaccine and to make these materials available, at the request of WHO, in case of a smallpox re-emergence.  
  • To support WHO’s work in response to Smallpox outbreaks, build and maintain the capacity of personnel able to safely carry out potency testing of smallpox vaccine and hold the vaccinia seed virus and reference materials. 
  • To house a smallpox vaccine information database in which information on smallpox vaccine is collected & stored and available for sharing at the request of WHO.
  • To support WHO, by having an actualised PCR test available that can distinguish between species of orthopox viruses and to be able to execute these tests on diagnostics samples referred by WHO.