Health Security Intelligence: engaging across disciplines and sectors

Global health diplomacy: training across disciplines.

Global health diplomacy is an emerging discipline where health is incorporated into traditional diplomacy as a foreign policy tool. As, with any new area, there is a need for training. This article sets out what global health policy involves and the current academic response to providing training for it.

Working across sectors for public health.

Hippocrates wrote about the relationship between environmental conditions and health status in Airs, waters and places in about 460 BC, where he identified environmental factors affecting human health that “doctors must know to pursue their calling”. Working across different sectors in public health is therefore not a new idea. The routes through which people are exposed to environmental hazard...

Working across the veterinary and human health sectors.

Antibiotics are widely used in human and veterinary medicine for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. This practice has led to the emergence of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria in both humans and animals. The potential role that animals, particularly livestock, might play as potential reservoirs of antibiotic resistance genes has been recognized, and it is currently a cause of p...

Olfactory consciousness across disciplines

Although vision is the de facto model system of consciousness research, studying olfactory consciousness has its own advantages, as this collection of articles emphatically demonstrates. One advantage of olfaction is its computational and phenomenological simplicity, which facilitates the identification of basic principles. Other researchers study olfactory consciousness not because of its simp...

Contents Ontologies across disciplines