Just out in Science, a new article on making biosecurity more agile: "Embrace experimentation in biosecurity governance" is a perspective piece summarizing the position developed at a workshop I attended last summer. In essence, right now the processes by which our nations and communities deal with biosecurity are slow, political, and isolated. We argue that we all need much better connected and flexible ways to deal with emerging threats in our more connected world, and to manage these processes in a way that makes it easier to study and learn from successes and failures.
We didn't realize this would be so apropos at the time that we were writing this piece, but we're in the thick of this problem right now, and I think this is a good piece to read for anybody who wants to help prevent the next biological disaster.
