Global Public Health Security

Explore the biological weapons convention, from Nixon's renouncement to its entry into force, and examine its article 1 definition, export controls, dual-use challenges, and confidence-building measures among state parties.

Trace the Cuba–US conflict within the Biological Weapons Convention framework, noting Cuba's signatory status, consultative meetings, ad hoc group work, and UN mechanisms for transparency.

Explore the UN 1540 mechanism as a response to noncompliance with the biological weapons convention, tracing its Iraq inspections, key resolutions, and evolving annual reporting.

Examine South Africa's state-sponsored biological weapons program, Project Coast, and how post-apartheid authorities pursued internal justice with limited UN or Biological Weapons Convention involvement.

Explore how South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, empowered by the 1995 act, uncovered state and Project Coast biological weapons programs, granted amnesty for disclosures, and sought closure for victims.

Examine how a South African cardiologist headed a 1980s biological weapons program, faced a 2014 trial, licensing disputes, and bias debates within the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Explore how SARS shaped hospital design and infection control, from Toronto’s ICU redesign and private rooms to Canada's public health governance and cross-border quarantine measures.

Explore how Canada responded to SARS through hospital design focused on infection control, isolation pods, and private rooms, plus federal public health coordination and quarantine powers.

Explore how the international health regulations evolved from 1969 to the 2005 framework, expanding WHO authority, surveillance, and reporting for public health emergencies of international concern.

Examine how the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak reshaped global biosecurity law and the international health regulations, influencing U.S. policy and quarantine responses.

Examine how the 2014 Ebola outbreak reframed national security as the United States deployed a military command center to West Africa. Note 21-day monitoring and state roles in public health.

Examine how internal WHO documents reveal two-month delays in declaring a 2014 Ebola public health emergency due to concerns about economic impact, shaping West Africa's outbreak response.

Analyze the 2014 Ebola outbreak in the United States, examining quarantine policy, public health power debates, and litigation around cases like Hickox and Pham.

Explore how Zika, carried by mosquitoes, drives public health security concerns in Brazil, including vector control, DDT history, Oxitec biotechnologies, and legal responses to microcephaly.