Category Archives: preparedness

The Next Pandemic

The novel H1N1 virus has been elected the “virus of the year.” According to the journal Science, the pandemic was a “near miss.” As the authors of the short piece argue, the “H1N1 virus was less virulent than feared, but … Continue reading

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Call for Papers: Epidemic Orders

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PCAST Report on Swine Flu

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Are we having a panic yet?

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Preparing for a Cyber-Attack

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Convergence of Bioenergy, Economic Vulnerability & Synthetic Genomics

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Governing the Future: The Paradigm of Prudence in Political Technologies of Risk Management

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Schools and Pandemic Preparedness

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The 2007 Trust for America’s Health Report and the Measurement of Public Health Preparedness

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Vaccine Development Imbued With Politics!

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