TY - BOOK
T1 - Health security intelligence
T2 - Managing emerging threats and risks in a post-Covid world
A2 - Walsh, Patrick F
N1 - Patrick F Walsh has published widely with Routledge as sole author and in edited volumes. His publications are having wide impact. For example, he has been asked by the commissioning editor for the book Intelligence and Intelligence Analysis to do a second edition as it has been deemed a success. Walsh and Miller’s Snowden article (Appendix B) has been downloaded over 14,000 times and is in the top 10 articles ever read in the Intelligence and National Security journal. Walsh has collaborated with Wilson and Wark on health security intelligence related projects and publications.
In August 2021, Walsh was awarded a grant (the Sturt Scheme) for AUD 300,000 to lead a multidisciplinary team of researchers to review the principles of health security warning intelligence systems. The research outputs from this grant will also inform the completion of chapters in this book. Funding from the grant will enable the book to be open access which will greatly assist in it having wider readership.
James M. Wilson is the CEO of M2 Medical Intelligence, Inc. Dr Wilson is a board-certified, practicing paediatrician who specializes in operational health security intelligence, with a focus on the anticipation, detection, and warning of infectious disease crises. Dr Wilson led the private intelligence teams that provided tracking of H5N1 avian influenza as it spread from Asia to Europe and Africa, detection of vaccine drifted H3N2 influenza in 2007, warning of the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, discovery of the United Nations as the source of the 2010 cholera disaster in Haiti, warning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and several investigations of alleged and confirmed laboratory accidents and biological weapon deployments. Dr Wilson is a strong advocate for effective and accountable global health security intelligence and the need for credible and balanced threat assessments. He has published several articles on health security intelligence issues including the recently edited (along with Goodman and Lentzos). Health Security Intelligence. Routledge, (2021).
Wesley Wark is a CIGI senior fellow and an adjunct professor at the University of Ottawa’s Centre on Public Management and Policy, where he teaches professional courses on security and intelligence topics. He recently retired from the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, where he had taught since 1988. He served two terms on the prime minister of Canada’s Advisory Council on National Security (2005–2009) and on the Advisory Committee to the President of the Canada Border Services Agency from 2006 to 2010. More recently, he provided advice to the minister of public safety on national security legislation and policy. He has appeared on numerous occasions before parliamentary committees and comments regularly for the media on national security issues.
He is the co-editor (with Christopher Andrew and Richard J. Aldrich) of Secret Intelligence: A Reader, second edition (Routledge, 2019) and series editor (with Aaron Shull, CIGI’s managing director and general counsel) of the CIGI digital essay series Security, Intelligence and the Global Health Crisis. He is a former editor of the journal Intelligence and National Security and now serves on the journal’s advisory board.
PY - 2024/1/1
Y1 - 2024/1/1
N2 - The book takes a multi-disciplinary approach to explore the role national security intelligence agencies played in supporting national governments’ response to COVID-19. Spanning the ‘Five Eyes’ intelligence countries (UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand), this book offers the first cross-comparative analysis of what intelligence agencies need to focus on in responding more effectively to future emerging health and biological security threats risks and hazards post-COVID-19. The volume addresses three principal issues. First, it investigates what roles the Five Eyes intelligence communities played (along with other key stakeholders, such as public health agencies) in managing the COVID-19 pandemic. Second, it assesses the challenges of and lessons learnt from these intelligence communities’ engagement in managing aspects of the pandemic. Third, it explores how the Five Eyes might play more effective roles in managing future health security threats and risks, whether those are intentional (bioterrorism and bio crimes), accidental (laboratory releases) or unintentional (pandemics) in origin. Overall, this book offers a coherent and holistic research agenda that seeks to improve understanding about the role of national security intelligence in managing health security threats and risks post-COVID-19. This book will be of much interest to students of intelligence studies, health security, public health and International Relations. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
AB - The book takes a multi-disciplinary approach to explore the role national security intelligence agencies played in supporting national governments’ response to COVID-19. Spanning the ‘Five Eyes’ intelligence countries (UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand), this book offers the first cross-comparative analysis of what intelligence agencies need to focus on in responding more effectively to future emerging health and biological security threats risks and hazards post-COVID-19. The volume addresses three principal issues. First, it investigates what roles the Five Eyes intelligence communities played (along with other key stakeholders, such as public health agencies) in managing the COVID-19 pandemic. Second, it assesses the challenges of and lessons learnt from these intelligence communities’ engagement in managing aspects of the pandemic. Third, it explores how the Five Eyes might play more effective roles in managing future health security threats and risks, whether those are intentional (bioterrorism and bio crimes), accidental (laboratory releases) or unintentional (pandemics) in origin. Overall, this book offers a coherent and holistic research agenda that seeks to improve understanding about the role of national security intelligence in managing health security threats and risks post-COVID-19. This book will be of much interest to students of intelligence studies, health security, public health and International Relations. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
KW - health security intelligence
KW - health security
KW - COVID-19 pandemic
KW - COVID-19 detection
KW - Early warning
KW - Five Eyes intelligence
KW - national secuirty
KW - global health
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U2 - 10.4324/9781003335511
DO - 10.4324/9781003335511
M3 - Edited book
SN - 9781032371443
T3 - Studies in Intelligence
BT - Health security intelligence
PB - Routledge
CY - Oxon, UK
ER -
