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Health and the Environment
Health and environmental issues will heavily impact global security in the coming decades and pose important challenges for international cooperation. The relationship between the environment, and international security is attracting increased interest among scholars and policymakers alike.
November 13th, 2012
Climate change threatens military readiness and global security
CISAC, Shorenstein APARC in the newsThe National Research Council released an 18-month study which finds that climate change, whether natural or man-made, poses a major threat to global security. Read more »
October 30th, 2012
Experts predict personalized bioweapons possible in the near future
Op-ed: Atlantic MagazineCISAC Affiliate Marc Goodman co-authors an article on how advances in biotechnology may be used in the near future to create personalized biological agents that target individuals based on their DNA. Read more »
October 9th, 2012
CISAC names Stanford biosecurity expert as next co-director
CISAC, FSI Stanford, CHP/PCOR NewsDr. David Relman, a Stanford microbiologist and professor of infectious diseases, has been named the next CISAC co-director. An adviser to the federal government on emerging biological threats, Relman's new role will strengthen CISAC's core mission of making the world a safer place. Read more »
September 14th, 2012
Study in Nature suggests wind power could meet global energy needs
in the news: Nature Climate Change on September 9, 2012Former Perry Fellow Katherine Marvel and colleagues at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory published a major study challenging conventional ideas about the limits of wind power. Through simulations and models, they find that wind power could meet global energy needs but caution that growth will likely be determined by economic, political, or technical factors and not global geophysical limitations.
- » Geophysical limits to global wind power
- » Washington Post: Could wind power ever meet the world's energy needs?
July 12th, 2012
Tino Cuéllar: Government agencies learning from their mistakes
CISAC, FSE, FSI Stanford in the newsCISAC Co-Director Tino Cuéllar talks to BigThink.com about why government agencies have such a bad track record. He explains that some agencies are well aware of their shortcomings and are working to improve operations and their relationship with the public, particularly agencies protecting public health and the food supply. Read more »
June 18th, 2012
Forrest warns of potential blow to American scientific exceptionalism
in the news: The Huffington Post on June 18, 2012Next year's proposed cuts in federal funding for scientific research and development could be as high as 8 percent, seriously impacting research in agriculture, energy and medicine. CISAC Postdoctoral Fellow Robert Forrest outlines how cuts would "profoundly inhibit innovation and deal an astonishing blow to American exceptionalism."
March 16th, 2012
Oversight committee approves publication of controversial H5N1 avian flu research
The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) announced on March 30 that it would recommend the publication of controversial research that raised public health concerns. On March 12, Professor Paul Keim, chairman of the NSABB, and Stanford’s Dr. David Relman, a NSABB board member and CISAC affiliated faculty, discussed the debate over whether to make public scientific papers about the adaptation of the avian flu virus H5N1 to transmission in a mammal. The paper was not recommended for publication at the time of the presentation. Audio from the March 12 seminar is available online. Read more »