Date:
24 July 2025, Thursday
Time:
5:00 – 6:00pm (GMT+8:00) Singapore
Platform
This webinar will be held on Zoom
Abstract:
Deliberate biothreat events present unique inter-sectoral challenges that require coordinated responses across public health, medical, laboratory, and security sectors. However, unless perpetrators disclose the threat, deliberate biological events may initially appear as an unusual outbreak or an ambiguous event.
In this webinar, Professor Paul Arbon will discuss the considerations for how to risk assess for deliberate events, including contextual and technical factors. These include details of the hazard: the release situation, pathogen and epidemiological characteristics. The session will also cover impact assessment, including risk of spread, health system preparedness, and access to medical countermeasures such as vaccines.
Speaker:
Professor Paul Arbon
Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor and Director of the Torrens Resilience Initiative
Flinders University
Moderator:
Adjunct Associate Professor Poh Lian Lim
Lead of Biorisk Management
Asia Centre for Health Security
