The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Health Care
Scholarly Publications
Mozambique: A Fading U.N. Success Story
January 2002
As Mozambique enters its tenth year of peace following a brutal and destructive civil war, the signs of continued democratic transformation and pro-market economic reform appear rosy, at least at...
Biological Terrorism and Public Health
April 2001
A biological terrorist attack probably would first be detected by doctors or other health-care workers.
Other Publications
No Need to Reset the Reset
September 2011
Russia watchers in the West cannot be surprised that Vladimir Putin is on his way back to the Russian presidency.
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.
Biological Security in a Changed World
September 2001
The horrifying events of 11 September 2001 serve notice that civilization will confront severe challenges in the twenty-first century.
News
Reducing the nuclear threat: The argument for public safety
December 2009
In this op-ed, CISAC's Richard Rhodes argues that public health, a discipline that organizes science-based systems of surveillance and prevention, has been primarily responsible for controlling the...
Preparation is key to avoiding 'worst-case outcome,' Chertoff says
April 2008
CISAC members Lynn Eden, Martha Crenshaw, and Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar participated in"Germ Warfare, Contagious Disease and the Constitution," a daylong event co-hosted by Stanford Law School....
Censoring science won't make us any safer
June 2005
Recent government efforts to prevent publication of scientific research that might prove helpful to terrorists "may sound reasonable," says CISAC Fellow Laura Donohue, but censoring science is more...
Events
New bio-based supply chains for drugs
May 11, 2015
Abstract: Recent advances in synthetic biology are transforming our capacities to make things with biology.
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.
Some Future Directions in System and Network Trustworthiness
March 19, 2013
Peter will discuss work at SRI and the University of Cambridge under two projects currently funded by DARPA, relating to clean-slate architectures for hardware, software, networking, and clouds,...