Research Catalog

Title

Strategies for effective improvements to the BioWatch system : proceedings of a workshop / Joe Alper, rapporteur ; Planning Committee for a Workshop on Strategies for Effective Biological Detection Systems, Board on Life Sciences, Division on Earth and Life Studies, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine.

Author

Strategies for Effective Biological Detection Systems (Workshop) (2017 : Washington, D.C.), author. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut

Publication

• Washington, DC : The National Academies Press, [2018]
• ©2018

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Additional Authors

• Alper, Joe
• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Planning Committee for a Workshop on Strategies for Effective Biological Detection Systems, issuing body. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/isb
• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Board on Life Sciences, issuing body. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/isb
• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Division on Earth and Life Studies, issuing body. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/isb

Description

xvi, 205 pages : illustrations (some color); 23 cm

Summary

"BioWatch is the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS's) system for detecting an aerosolized biological attack using collectors that are positioned strategically across the country to continuously monitor the air for biological threats. As currently deployed, BioWatch collectors draw air through filters that field technicians collect daily and transport to laboratories, where professional technicians analyze the material collected on the filter for evidence of biological threats. As part of the BioWatch program's efforts to enhance its effectiveness and capabilities, particularly with regard to detecting biological threats in challenging indoor environments, DHS requested the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hold a workshop to explore alternative and effective biodetection systems for aerosolized biological agents that would meet BioWatch's technical and operational requirements, integrate into the existing system architecture and public health infrastructure, and be deployable by 2027. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop"--Publisher's description.

Subject

• BioWatch Program (U.S.) > Evaluation > Congresses
• Pathogenic microorganisms > Technological innovations > United States > Congresses
• Terrorist threat warning systems > United States > Congresses
• Air sampling apparatus > Technological innovations > United States > Congresses
• Bioterrorism > United States > Prevention > Congresses
• Bioterrorism > prevention & control
• Biohazard Release > prevention & control
• Biosurveillance
• Biological Warfare Agents
• Bioterrorism
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction and overview -- Assessment of current performance -- Developing effective biological detection systems -- Compatibility of BioWatch improvements within the existing biological detection architecture -- Overview of the workshop.

ISBN

• 0309471745
• 9780309471749

LCCN

10.17226/25014

OCLC

• on1033572668
• 1033572668
• SCSB-9032395

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Columbia University Libraries