Global Health Security

Forward.- Section 1 Emerging threats.- Plagues, Epidemics and Pandemics; R. Izurieta.- Agricultural Emergencies: Factors and Impacts in the Spread of Transboundary Diseases in, and adjacent to, Agriculture.- The Threat within: mitigating the risk of medical error.- Climate Change, Extreme Weather Events and Global Health Security- A lens into vulnerabilities; C. Bell, A. Masys.- Global Health Biosecurity in a Vulnerable World - An Evaluation of Emerging Threats and Current Disaster Preparedness Strategies for the Future.- The emerging threat of Ebola.- Section 2: Mitigation, Preparedness and Response and Recovery.- Natural and Manmade Disasters: Vulnerable Populations.- Sexual Violence.- Global Health Security and Weapons of Mass Destruction; C. Reynolds.- Antimicrobial Resistance in One Health.- Food Security - microbiological and chemical risks.- Section 3: Exploring the technology Landscape for Solutions. Gaussianization of variational Bayesian approximations with correlated non-nested non-negligible posterior mean random effects employing non-negativity constraint analogs and analytical depossinization for iteratively fitting capture point, Aedes aegypti habitat non-zero autocorrelated prognosticators: A case study in evidential probabilities for non-frequentistic forecast epi-entomological time series modeling of  arboviral infections.- Simulation, Modeling and Telemedicine in Global Health Security; A. French.- The growing role of social media in international health security: The good, the bad, and the ugly.- Section 4: Leadership and partnerships. Effecting Collective Impact through Collective Leadership on a Foundation of Generative Relationships.- Global Health Innovations.

Anthony Masys is an Associate Professor and Director of Global Disaster Management, Humanitarian Assistance and Homeland Security. A former senior Air Force Officer, Dr Masys has a BSc in Physics and MSc in Underwater Acoustics and Oceanography from the Royal Military College of Canada and a PhD from the University of Leicester. He is Editor in Chief for Springer Publishing book series: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications and holds various advisory board positions with academic journals and books series.

He is an internationally recognized author, speaker and facilitator and has held workshops on security, visual thinking, design thinking and systems thinking in Europe, Canada, South America, West Africa and Asia. He has published extensively in the domains of physics and the social sciences. His recent books include: