Technologies to enable autonomous detection for BioWatch : ensuring timely and accurate information for public health officials : workshop summary

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Technologies to enable autonomous detection for BioWatch : ensuring timely and accurate information for public health officials : workshop summary

Title remainder

ensuring timely and accurate information for public health officials : workshop summary

Statement of responsibility

India Hook-Barnard, Sheena M. Posey Norris, and Joe Alper, rapporteurs ; Board on Health Sciences Policy, Board on Life Sciences, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council of the National Academies

Creator

• Hook-Barnard, India

Contributor

• Norris, Sheena M. Posey
• Institute of Medicine (U.S.), Board on Health Sciences Policy
• National Research Council (U.S.), Board on Life Sciences
• Alper, Joe
• Strategies for Cost-Effective and Flexible Biodetection Systems that Ensure Timely and Accurate Information for Public Health Officials (Workshop), 2013

Author

• Norris, Sheena M. Posey
• Hook-Barnard, India
• Alper, Joe

Sponsoring body

• National Research Council (U.S.), Board on Life Sciences
• Institute of Medicine (U.S.), Board on Health Sciences Policy

Subject

• Biosecurity -- United States -- Congresses
• Bioterrorism -- Prevention
• Bioterrorism -- United States -- Prevention -- Congresses
• Bioterrorism -- prevention & control
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Congress
• BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure
• Environmental Monitoring -- methods
• Environmental monitoring -- Cost effectiveness
• Environmental monitoring -- United States -- Cost effectiveness -- Congresses
• Evaluation Studies
• Evaluation Study
• Genomics
• Genomics -- Congresses
• Health risk assessment
• Health risk assessment -- United States -- Congresses
• Mass spectrometry
• Mass spectrometry -- Congresses
• Nucleic acids -- Analysis
• Nucleic acids -- Analysis -- Congresses
• Proteins -- Analysis
• Proteins -- Analysis -- Congresses
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General
• United States
• United States
• Electronic books
• BioWatch Program (U.S.)
• BioWatch Program (U.S.)
• Biohazard Release -- prevention & control
• Biological Warfare Agents
• Biosecurity

Genre

• Evaluation Studies
• Congresses
• Congress
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Evaluation Study
• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

The BioWatch program, funded and overseen by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has three main elements--sampling, analysis, and response--each coordinated by different agencies. The Environmental Protection Agency maintains the sampling component, the sensors that collect airborne particles. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention coordinates analysis and laboratory testing of the samples, though testing is actually carried out in state and local public health laboratories. Local jurisdictions are responsible for the public health response to positive findings. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is designated as the lead agency for the law enforcement response if a bioterrorism event is detected. In 2003 DHS deployed the first generation of BioWatch air samplers. The current version of this technology, referred to as Generation 2.0, requires daily manual collection and testing of air filters from each monitor. DHS has also considered newer automated technologies (Generation 2.5 and Generation 3.0) which have the potential to produce results more quickly, at a lower cost, and for a greater number of threat agents. Technologies to Enable Autonomous Detection for BioWatch is the summary of a workshop hosted jointly by the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council in June 2013 to explore alternative cost-effective systems that would meet the requirements for a BioWatch Generation 3.0 autonomous detection system, or autonomous detector, for aerosolized agents . The workshop discussions and presentations focused on examination of the use of four classes of technologies--nucleic acid signatures, protein signatures, genomic sequencing, and mass spectrometry--that could reach Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 6-plus in which the technology has been validated and is ready to be tested in a relevant environment over three different tiers of temporal timeframes: those technologies that could be TRL 6-plus ready as part of an integrated system by 2016, those that are likely to be ready in the period 2016 to 2020, and those are not likely to be ready until after 2020. Technologies to Enable Autonomous Detection for BioWatch discusses the history of the BioWatch program, the role of public health officials and laboratorians in the interpretation of BioWatch data and the information that is needed from a system for effective decision making, and the current state of the art of four families of technology for the BioWatch program. This report explores how the technologies discussed might be strategically combined or deployed to optimize their contributions to an effective environmental detection capability

Cataloging source

NLM

Dewey number

363.32530973

Funding information

This activity was supported by contract no. HSHQDC-12-J-00188 between the National Academy of Sciences and the Department of Homeland Security, Office of Health Affairs. The views presented in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of the organizations or agencies that provided support for the activity.

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illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

UG447.8

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography
• technical reports

NLM call number

WA 295