Epidemics and Biosurveillance - Some questions to answer

After the "break" of Christmas, my research group and me are collecting new material in order to publish news papers and a book named "Biopolitics and Biosecurity at the 21th Century", in partnership with a brazilian research group, head by Cleci Maraschin.

In order to do that, we have to clear up some questions that I want to share with all of you, and so, you can collaborate and we can build a discussion exchanging diverses points of view. Here are the questions:

• What is understood, exactly, by biosurveillance?

• What is understood, in terms of biosecurity and biosurveillance, by Early Warning Systems?

• From the point of view of biosurveillance, scientifics and experts, what is currently the role of citizenship? 

• There are tools, apps, guidelines, etc. whereby citizenship can collaborate or "enact" as alert system?

• Where can we find documentation about this kind of issues? 

• What  is a sentinel site or a sentinel web? and how it works?

• What is the role of Internet into this new intelligence related with detecting pandemics and acting before it occurs?

Finally, I want to share with you our webpage (still is under construction), where we will upload our materials and papers in order to shere it with all of you, thanks a lot!

Portraits of Bios in the 21th Century

Photo Credit: Flickr, user Temari 09