1st Edition

Health Security Intelligence Managing Emerging Threats and Risks in a Post-Covid World

Edited By Patrick F. Walsh Copyright 2025
208 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The book takes a multi-disciplinary approach to explore the role national security intelligence agencies played in supporting national governments’ response to COVID-19. Spanning the ‘Five Eyes’ intelligence countries (UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand), this book offers the first cross-comparative analysis of what intelligence agencies need to focus on in responding more effectively... Read more

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

 

Part I: Health Security Intelligence and COVID-19

Chapter 1 Introduction Patrick F Walsh

Chapter 2 Framing National Security and Health Security Intelligence Erik Dahl

 

Part II: Challenges in Managing Health Security Threats, Risks and Hazards

Chapter 3 Political Engagement Patrick F. Walsh and Ausma Bernot

Chapter 4 Disinformation: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond Jennifer Hunt

 

Part III: Improving Health Security Threat and Risk Mitigation

Chapter 5 Building Better Health Security Intelligence Strategies Post-COVID-19 Gemma Bowsher

Chapter 6  Improving Health Security Intelligence Warning Systems David Skillicorn

Chapter 7 Biosecurity, National Security Intelligence and Ethics Seumas Miller

Chapter 8 Improving the Health Security Intelligence Workforce and Research Agenda Kathleen M. Vogel

Chapter 9  Managing Health Security Threats at the Multilateral Level: The Challenge of Investigating Ambiguous Outbreaks Filippa Lentzos

Chapter 10 Conclusion Patrick F. Walsh

 

Index

Biography

Patrick F. Walsh is a Professor of Intelligence and Security Studies at Charles Sturt University, Australia. He is a former intelligence analyst who has worked in Australian national security and law enforcement agencies. He has written multiple books and research articles on intelligence capability issues, including related to health and biological security.