The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Public Health
Scholarly Publications
Chronic long-term risk of low-level radiation exposure: Bridging the lay/expert divide
August 2018
Abstract: The failure of experts and lay people to understand each other has been fueling conflict around the environmental clean-up of the many sites in the United States that are contaminated by...
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...
Sociotechnical Challenges of Developing an Interoperable Personal Health Record
October 2011
ObjectivesTo analyze sociotechnical issues involved in the process of developing an interoperable commercial Personal Health Record (PHR) in a hospital setting, and to create guidelines for future...
Other Publications
Atomic Homefront: a film about struggling to live with Manhattan Project radioactive waste
June 2018
Abstract: This commentary reviews and discusses HBO’s new documentary, Atomic Homefront, which shows how communities are still struggling to live with radiation from radioactive waste generated...
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
The COVID-19 Infodemic: What Can Be Done About the Infectious Spread of Misinformation and Disinformation
September 2020
Almost since its first emergence, the spreading SARS-CoV-2 outbreak has also been accompanied by a widespread proliferation of misinformation and disinformation, what the World Health Organization (...
Bad Earth
August 2020
Every year, humans move more earth and rock than rivers, wind, rain and all other planetary forces combined. And the quantity of rock moved by Anglo American in its century-plus of metal mining...
Extremely unlikely that they will find anything
August 2020
A helicopter scan for radioactivity at SF’s former bases had limited value. The city relied on it anyway, using what Gabrielle Hecht calls “a classic playbook around issues of toxicity, radiation and...
Events
Addressing highly polluting brick manufacturing in South Asia
March 8, 2018
Abstract: Clay fired bricks are a primary building material used in the rapidly expanding construction sector across South Asia.
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.
Health and human movement: global challenges, local solutions
February 22, 2016
Abstract: The interactions between biological and cultural processes are critical determinants of human health.
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