Strengthening Global Systems to Prevent and Respond to High-Consequence Biological Threats

consequence analysis of the leakage, ignition and explosion during high pressure sour gas injection process to the oil reservoir

there is no doubt that human being needs to become integrated with industry and industry needs to be progressed, daily. on the other hand, serious events in industrial units specially in oil industries has been shown that such damages and events are industry related ones. the consequence of such events and damages which resulted in chemical and poisoned explosions and loss of life and property ...

Blue ribbon panel hears how to respond to biological and chemical threats.

This article reports on the final session o f a Panel offor­ mer officials and Congressmen o f the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations formed to recommend changes to U.S. policy and law to strengthen national biodefense while optimizing resource in­ vestments. I f America were to be beset by a biological or chemical weapons attack, who would be in charge of responding? According to the con...

Editorial: Biological Engagement Programs: Reducing Threats and Strengthening Global Health Security Through Scientific Collaboration

Strengthening the US Medical Countermeasure Enterprise for Biological Threats

B iological threats, which range from naturally occurring outbreaks of infectious disease to intentional acts of bioterrorism, pose unique dangers to public health and national security in the United States. Medical countermeasures (MCMs)—drugs, vaccines, diagnostic tests, and other therapies and devices—rank among the most important assets in the nation’s arsenal against dangerous pathogens, a...

The emergence of global attention to health systems strengthening.

After a period of proliferation of disease-specific initiatives, over the past decade and especially since 2005 many organizations involved in global health have come to direct attention and resources to the issue of health systems strengthening. We explore how and why such attention emerged. A qualitative methodology, process-tracing, was used to construct a case history and analyse the factor...