Serious Infectious Disease: Challenges for Security and Defence

This report, on the sixth STFC-funded conference ‘Serious Infectious Disease: Challenges for Security and Defence’, held in January 2015, examines the impact of serious infectious disease and explores the potential role of the security and defence sectors.

Contents

Foreword
Bryan Edwards

Introduction
Jennifer Cole

Keynote Address: Serious Infectious Disease: Challenges for Security and Defence
Alasdair Walker

I. PHEICS: Pathogen Signatures, Taxonomy and Resilience
Tony Barnett

II. Public Health Emergencies of International Concern
Brian Jones

III. PHEICS: Actions and Research Requirements
Obinna Michael Azuikpe

IV. Developing Situational Awareness
Nigel Lightfoot

V. Controlling and Managing Infectious Diseases During Armed Conflicts: The Example of Polio in Syria
Balsam Ahmad

VI. Situational Awareness for Global Immunisation Programmes
William S Schulz

VII. The Spatial Dimensions to Situational Awareness
Steve Wallace

VIII. Emerging Public-Health Threat Intelligence
Tobias Lightfoot

IX. Genomics in Low-Tech Environments
Carl Mayers

X. Monitoring and Influencing Situations
Steve Smith

Discussion Groups

Discussion Group 1: Surveillance and Modelling of Emerging Diseases
Chaired by Adam Kucharski

Discussion Group 2: Genomic Sequencing and Analysis of Early Cases
Chaired by Sterghios A Moschos

Discussion Group 3: Cultural and Environmental Risk Factors in Disease Spread
Chaired by Jennifer Cole