Infectious Disease as a Security Threat: A Mental Framework for Future Emergency Preparedness
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Ryan Scott Houser
Abstract
The emergence of COVID-19 pandemic has had significant impacts on human lives as well as economic and social stability. The United States has a complicated history with biosecurity. The September 11th terror attacks uncovered various weaknesses in the national biosecurity infrastructure that have persisted into the current pandemic. This study explores the implications of framing the infectious disease biothreat as a security threat to improve our capabilities while protecting against the potential accelerated threat of bioterrorism in the post-COVID-19 era. To counter the increasing biothreats, the United States must invest in revamping the biodefense infrastructure to increase our resilience to various biothreats.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
- A Comparison of Hazard Vulnerability Indexes for Washington State
- The Application of Emergency Management Principles to Violent Crime Response and Urban Resilience
- Supporting Humanitarian Crisis Decision Making with Reliable Intelligence Derived from Social Media Using AI
- The Use of Social Media by Emergency Stakeholder Groups: Lessons Learned from Areas Affected by Hurricanes Isaac and Sandy
- Opinions
- Infectious Disease as a Security Threat: A Mental Framework for Future Emergency Preparedness
- Gauging the Impact of Satellite & Space Systems on Critical Infrastructure[CI]: Risk Management is Neither an Enigma nor a Mystery for CI Systems Security
