ReviewEnvironment systems & decisions2018
Converging and emerging threats to health security.
Review in Environment systems & decisions, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 47 citations in OpenAlex.
- Global health preparedness for biosecurity threats: a review of emerging technologies and solutions.Frontiers in public health · 2026Pooled it
- Vulnerability to Cyberattacks and Sociotechnical Solutions for Health Care Systems: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Pooled it
- Epidemiological indicators of accidental laboratory-origin outbreaks.Epidemiology and infection · 2026Review
- Threats to Global Mental Health From Unregulated Digital Phenotyping and Neuromarketing: Recommendations for COVID-19 Era and Beyond.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
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- The Phylogeography of MERS-CoV in Hospital Outbreak-Associated Cases Compared to Sporadic Cases in Saudi Arabia.Viruses · 2020Article
- Application of a Risk Analysis Tool to Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) Outbreak in Saudi Arabia.Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis · 2020Article
- Border closure for island nations? Analysis of pandemic and bioweapon-related threats suggests some scenarios warrant drastic action.Australian and New Zealand journal of public health · 2020Article
- Public awareness, acceptability and risk perception about infectious diseases dual-use research of concern: a cross-sectional survey.BMJ open · 2020Article
- Graphene Modified Multifunctional Personal Protective Clothing.Advanced materials interfaces · 2019Review
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Authors and funding
11 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Advances in biological sciences have outpaced regulatory and legal frameworks for biosecurity. Simultaneously, there has been a convergence of scientific disciplines such as synthetic biology, data science, advanced computing and many other technologies, which all have applications in health. For example, advances in cybercrime methods have created ransomware attacks on hospitals, which can cripple health systems and threaten human life. New kinds of biological weapons which fall outside of traditional Cold War era thinking can be created synthetically using genetic code. These convergent trajectories are dramatically expanding the repertoire of methods which can be used for benefit or harm. We describe a new risk landscape for which there are few precedents, and where regulation and mitigation are a challenge. Rapidly evolving patterns of technology convergence and proliferation of dual-use risks expose inadequate societal preparedness. We outline examples in the areas of biological weapons, antimicrobial resistance, laboratory security and cybersecurity in health care. New challenges in health security such as precision harm in medicine can no longer be addressed within the isolated vertical silo of health, but require cross-disciplinary solutions from other fields. Nor can they cannot be managed effectively by individual countries. We outline the case for new cross-disciplinary approaches in risk analysis to an altered risk landscape.
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