A5013998259- Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Rabies epidemiology and control
- Risk Perception and Management
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
2021-2024
Johns Hopkins University
2024
Abstract One of the lessons learned from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is utility an early, flexible, and rapidly deployable screening detection response. The largely uncontrolled spread in United States exposed a range planning implementation shortcomings, which, if they had been place before emerged, may have changed trajectory. Disease by dogs show great promise as noninvasive, efficient, cost-effective method for COVID-19 infection. We explore evidence their use infectious...
Following the 2001 end to negotiations on a legally binding protocol, states parties 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC) developed entrenched positions about necessity of treaty verification, hindering progress aims. The study described in this article was designed facilitate dialogue verification-related issues outside context those positions, using term “assurance” represent degree certainty that are meeting their obligations. From August 2020 July 2021, researchers...
Abstract In the absence of a treaty protocol or verification regime, Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC) instituted confidence-building measures (CBMs) as mechanism to increase confidence in compliance by enhancing transparency mitigating ambiguities regarding states parties’ biological activities. While promising tool support compliance, low participation, concerns completeness accuracy CBM submissions, dearth analysis, restricted access many submissions have limited CBMs’ value....