For this assignment, develop an evidenced-based argument why Ebola is the most significant global health security issue needing attention. The paper should include an overview of the biothreat, critical analysis of what federal or local responses have already occurred, resulting implications for preparedness/response, and ultimately what makes it unique in the context of security threats to critical infrastructure.
Here are some sources to use:
Meyer, Diane, Tara Kirk Sell, Monica Schoch-Spana, Matthew P. Shearer, Hannah Chandler, Erin Thomas, Dale A. Rose, Eric G. Carbone, and Eric Toner. “Lessons from the Domestic Ebola Response: Improving Health Care System Resilience to High Consequence Infectious Diseases.” American Journal of Infection Control 46, no. 5 (May 2018): 533–37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2017.11.001.
Heymann, David L, Lincoln Chen, Keizo Takemi, David P Fidler, Jordan W Tappero, Mathew J Thomas, Thomas A Kenyon, et al. “Global Health Security: The Wider Lessons from the West African Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic.” The Lancet 385, no. 9980 (May 2015): 1884–1901. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(15)60858-3.
Christian Enemark, Ebola, Disease-Control, and the Security Council: From Securitization to Securing Circulation, Journal of Global Security Studies, Volume 2, Issue 2, April 2017, Pages 137–149, https://doi.org/10.1093/jogss/ogw030
Gostin LO, Waxman HA, Foege W. The President’s National Security Agenda: Curtailing Ebola, Safeguarding the Future. JAMA. 2015;313(1):27–28. doi:10.1001/jama.2014.16572
Tappero JW, Cassell CH, Bunnell RE, et al. US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Its Partners’ Contributions to Global Health Security. Emerg Infect Dis. 2017;23(13):S5-S14. doi:10.3201/eid2313.170946
Popescu, Saskia, and Rebecca Leach. “Identifying Gaps in Frontline Healthcare Facility High-Consequence Infectious Disease Preparedness.” Health Security 17, no. 2 (April 2019): 117–23. https://doi.org/10.1089/hs.2018.0098.
Abelson, J., et al. Boom-and-bust federal funding after 9/11 undercut hospitals’ preparedness for pandemics. The Washington Post. May 2, 2020.
Greer, Scott L., Elizabeth J. King, Elize Massard da Fonseca, and Andre Peralta-Santos. “The Comparative Politics of COVID-19: The Need to Understand Government Responses.” Global Public Health 15, no. 9 (September 1, 2020): 1413–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2020.1783340
Gregory D. Koblentz, Living Weapons: Biological Warfare and International Security (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009).
Cosgrove, Sara E., Trish M. Perl, Xiaoyan Song, and Stephen D. Sisson. “Ability of Physicians to Diagnose and Manage Illness Due to Category A Bioterrorism Agents.” Archives of Internal Medicine 165, no. 17 (September 26, 2005): 2002–6. https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.165.17.2002
