Global Health Security; where are we now? -seminaari 1.2.2016

4. Global Health Security
The key questions?
• Prevention: How to fight the emergence and spread of antimicrobial
drug resistant organisms and zoonotic diseases? How to strengthen
international regulatory frameworks governing food safety? How to
build up sustainable biosafety and biosecurity systems. How to
reduce the number of infectious disease outbreaks contain their
magnitude.
• Detection: How to build, strengthen, and link global networks for
real-time surveillance? How to support the global norms regarding
rapid, transparent reporting and sample sharing?
• Response: How to develop an interconnected global network of
Emergency Operations Centers and build capacity for multi-sectoral
response to biological incidents? How to catalyze the global access
to countermeasures during health emergencies?

5. “Infectious diseases do not comply with
national borders. It is precisely for this reason
that measures to combat and proactively
prevent such diseases are absolutely
necessary, both nationally and internationally.
Moreover, comprehensive cooperation is
required in order to act and react quickly to
neutralise bio-threats on a global scale.”

9. Global connection
• Dystopian decline-fearing hegemonic imagination is predisposed to fear
that the underlying network of power turns into a channel of regression.
• It appears the fear morphs actual and potential diseases together with other
senses of hostility and enmity.
• Under this frame: Epidemic diseases are newsworthy, become
hyperbolized, and are politicized because they trigger deep hegemonic
anxieties concerning the viability of the underlying "unnaturalness" of global
connectedness.
• The engrossing and attention capturing ‘flow’ of a contagious disease can
cause worry because it shows global connectedness in unfavorable light.