Infectious disease outbreaks pose major threats to human health and security. Countries
with robust capacities for preventing, detecting and responding to outbreaks can avert many …

Global terrorism is a rapidly growing threat to world security, and increases the risk of
bioterrorism. In this Review, we discuss the potential threat of bioterrorism, agents that could …

Abstract Background The Ebola communication crisis of 2014 generated widespread fear
and attention among Western news media, social media users, and members of the United …

Significant technological advances are being made across a range of fields, including
information communications technology (ICT); artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in terms …

Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic powerfully demonstrates the consequences of
biothreats. Countries will want to know how to better prepare for future events. The Global …

In the decades to come, advanced bioweapons could threaten human existence. Although
the probability of human extinction from bioweapons may be low, the expected value of …

Rapid developments are currently taking place in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and
biotechnology, and applications arising from the convergence of these 2 fields are likely to …

Predicting which pathogen will confer the highest global catastrophic biological risk (GCBR)
of a pandemic is a difficult task. Many approaches are retrospective and premised on prior …

Abstract Background Since the 2014–2016 West Africa Ebola epidemic, the concept of
measuring health security capacity has become increasingly important within the broader …

The global health security (GHS) Index assesses countries' level of preparedness to health
risks. However, there is no evidence on how and whether the effects of health systems …