Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Editor -- Redefining Biosecurity by Application in Global Health, Biodefense, and Developing Technologies -- 1 Historical Context of Biosecurity -- 2 Distinguishing Biosecurity from Biosafety -- 3 Directionality of Biosecurity Matters -- 3.1 Directionality of the Biorisk Assessment Process -- 3.2 Directionality of the Biothreat Assessment Process -- 4 Biosecurity is Unique from Traditional Security -- 4.1 Intrinsic Properties of Biological Agents Drive Uniqueness of Biosecurity -- 4.2 The Unique Nature of Threats and Hazards in Biosecurity -- 5 Biosecurity is not Limited to the Laboratory Environment -- 6 Biosecurity Extends to Global Health, Defense, and Developing Technologies -- 7 Summary -- References -- The Biothreat Assessment as a Foundation for Biosecurity -- 1 Threat Management as a Field of Practice in Security Programs -- 1.1 Defining Threat Assessment -- 1.2 History of Threat Assessment -- 1.3 Framing Threat Assessment -- 1.4 Threat Assessment Approaches and Models -- 2 Biosecurity Threats and Hazards -- 2.1 Bioeconomy Today Presents Novel Threats and Hazards -- 2.2 Gap in Expertise Lowers Threshold to New Types of Would-Be Actors -- 3 The Biothreat Assessment as a Novel Approach to Combine Science and Threats -- 3.1 Linking the Risk and Threat Assessments for Biorisk Management Program Continuity -- 3.2 Design and Execution of a Linked Biorisk and Biothreat Assessment -- 3.3 Assessments Represent One Component of a Robust Biosecurity Program -- 4 Connecting Threats/Hazards, Vulnerabilities, and Risks -- 5 Summary -- References -- Expanding the Scope of Biosecurity Through One Health -- 1 Defining Biosecurity Outside of the Laboratory -- 2 One Health Significance -- 3 Public Policy Context of Agricultural Biosecurity.
1. Redefining Biosecurity -- 2. The Biothreat Assessment as a Foundation for Biosecurity -- 3. Biothreat assessment use in food and agriculture -- 4. GHSA and other threat reduction programs -- 5. Adapting Biosecurity to Better Serve Public Health Infrastructure and Outbreak Incidents -- 6. Technological Advances That Test the Dual-Use Research of Concern Model. .
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This book describes an adaptable biothreat assessment process to complement overall biorisk management programs, incorporating threat management and the unique natures of biological assets. Further, this book examines the nexus between public health, international security, and developing technologies, building a case for augmenting biosecurity to levels beyond the laboratory constraints. With the face of biological and biomedical sciences changing, this book describes how with proper biosecurity development, these can become assets, rather than liabilities, to secure our world from natural and man-made biological disasters. The world is changing rapidly with respect to developing threats, such as terrorism, and dual-use technologies, such as synthetic biology, that are challenging how we think about biosafety and biosecurity. Further, the fields of public health and international security are colliding, as both of these share the common enemy: intentional or natural biological incidents. To date, biosecurity has been limited to laboratory-level application, and complicating efforts, and lacks credentialed biosecurity professionals skilled in both the biological sciences and threat management techniques. The result is a fragmented field of practice, with tremendous need, from the lab to the outbreak. Underpinning these principles is the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic, providing a historic milestone to examine biosecurity through a global lens. This book describes biosecurity as a set of practices and principles to be augmented out of the constrained laboratory environment, and applied to larger efforts, such as international threat reduction and biological incident management
