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  • Biosecurity and public health
  • Policy and decision science

Background:

  • Biosecurity threats (diseases, zoonoses, biological weapons) are numerous, concurrent, and emergent, posing complex challenges for risk assessment.
  • Incomplete evidence, limited resources, and difficulties in learning from past projects hinder effective threat prioritization.
  • Policymakers require transparent, consistent, and evidence-based recommendations for managing biosecurity risks.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a novel risk analysis framework for the prioritization and management of biosecurity threats.
  • To provide a tool with both prescriptive value (informing new projects) and descriptive value (understanding past projects).
  • To enhance the success of biosecurity threat prioritization projects through informed design choices.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a risk analysis framework with three key dimensions: risk support, risk group, and risk organization.
  • Prescriptive application of the framework in two biosecurity threat prioritization projects.
  • Descriptive analysis of project experiences through in-depth case studies.

Main Results:

  • The framework offers a structured approach to navigate design choices in risk analysis for biosecurity.
  • Application in UK projects demonstrated the framework's utility in threat prioritization.
  • Case studies highlighted the framework's value as a learning tool for past and future projects.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed framework provides critical insights into how design choices influence the effectiveness of biosecurity risk analysis.
  • It serves as a valuable tool for improving the transparency, consistency, and evidence base of biosecurity threat prioritization.
  • The framework supports better decision-making for managing complex and emerging biosecurity challenges.