This project will analyse the changing nature of political and regulatory authority in the governance, across national, regional and multilateral levels, of the increasingly rapid global travel of infectious disease in particular, and biohazards in general.

The objectives of this project are two-fold.

• First, to develop a conceptual framework through which to understand the global governance and regulation of infectious diseases and biohazards in general. This is particularly pressing because changes in our environment, or the biosphere in which we live, are by their very nature, one step ahead of our capacity to understand, protect and regulate our own safety within this biosphere (think, for example, of newly emerging diseases like SARS).
• Second, to liase with the EU and international policy community and contribute to the development of contemporary policy for governing and regulating infection in both the EU and global contexts.

Research teams shall develop specific research projects (set below under deliverables), including an international conference, to discuss the progress and results of work on-going on the conceptual framework discussed above.

• Sarah Hodges, University of Warwick