The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Disease
Scholarly Publications
The Increasingly Compelling Moral Responsibilities of Life Scientists
March 2013
First paragraph of article:Many of my colleagues and fellow investigators in the life sciences were surprised in late 2011 to hear about the deliberate laboratory manipulation of highly pathogenic...
The Application of Ecological Theory Toward an Understanding of the Human Microbiome
June 2012
Abstract The human-microbial ecosystem plays a variety of important roles in human health and disease.
Reducing Uncertainty: Intelligence Analysis and National Security
July 2011
Description from Stanford University Press: The US government spends billions of dollars every year to reduce uncertainty: to monitor and forecast everything from the weather to the spread of...
Other Publications
Managing Global Insecurity: A Plan for Action
September 2008
The 21st century will be defined by security threats unconstrained by borders--from climate change, nuclear proliferation, and terrorism to conflict, poverty, disease, and economic instability.
Censoring Science Won't Make Us Any Safer
June 2005
In 1920, the Irish Republican Army reportedly considered a terrifying new weapon: typhoid-contaminated milk.
More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility, A
December 2004
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan created the High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change in September 2003 with SIIS and CISAC senior fellow Stephen J.
News
5 Questions: David Relman on Investigating Origin of Coronavirus
June 2021
Microbiologist David Relman discusses the importance of understanding how the coronavirus emerged.
Containing the Risks of Bioengineered Super Viruses
September 2015
Genetically engineered viruses could open up a Pandora's box of biosecurity threats. CISAC co-director David Relman explains how we can keep a lid on it.
CISAC tackles public health & policy questions on Ebola
October 2014
We ask CISAC biosecurity experts David Relman and Megan Palmer to answer questions about the public health and policy implications of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Old Events
Vector-borne disease in a changing world: Insights from ecology across scales
January 5, 2017
Abstract: Globally, infectious diseases are emerging at an increasing rate. Vector-borne diseases in particular present one of the biggest threats to public health globally.
The Global Infectious Disease Threat and Dual use Pathogens
October 27, 2016
Abstract: The Federal response to dual use pathogens is being actively debated. We are at a critical juncture between free science exploration and government policy. Should science be regulated?
What's out there? Microbial diversity, security, and the public health
October 14, 2013
More information TBA. Speaker bio: David A. Relman, M.D., is the Thomas C. and Joan M.
Projects
Feeding the World in the 21st Century: Exploring the Connections between Food Production, Health, Environmental Resources, and International Security
This project involves political scientists, economists, and medical researchers to address the question of whether hunger, poverty, disease and agricultural resource constraints foster civil...
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People
Stephen P. Luby Senior Fellow Professor, Medicine, Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment, Professor, Epidemiology & Population Health (by courtesy)