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Public Health and Biosecurity: Addressing Global Health Challenges and Inequities

This week’s focus in public health revolves around critical issues such as HPV, syphilis, typhoid, AIDS, and Ebola. It emphasizes the role of biosecurity in protecting populations while navigating lifestyle limitations. Drawing on Bruce Braun's insights from “Biopolitics and the Molecularization of Life,” we explore the implications of biosecurity measures—such as surveillance networks and rapid response teams—in managing biological threats. A feminist perspective invites reflection on health disparities across demographics and the importance of building coalitions to combat systemic inequalities in public health.

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Public Health and Biosecurity: Addressing Global Health Challenges and Inequities

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  1. Public Health & Biofears JIGSAW #2

  2. This week: • Public Health Concerns: • Human Papilloma Virus • Syphilis • Typhoid • AIDS • Ebola • Management Outcomes: • Solidify identity distinctions • Incite fear (positive, negative effects) • Protect populace • Ensure freedom, yet limit lifestyle choices

  3. To which practices does “public health” refer?

  4. Reflection #7 • In “Biopolitics and the Molecularization of Life,” Braun contends that public health today largely concerns itself with “biosecurity.” • Define what he means by “biosecurity” and • Provide at least one example of how biosecurity is enacted.

  5. “Biopolitics and the molecularization of life” • Bruce Braun, Professor of Geography, U of M Twin Cities

  6. Biopolitics Geopolitics • Public Health & Globalization • “Unruly movement of animals” • Transportation • Global trade • “Collapse space and time” (18) • Bodies conceived of as: • Molecular…genetic • Unpredictable (15) • Porous: “Radically open to the world” (17)

  7. Major global bird migration patterns

  8. Answer to Unpredictability: Biosecurity. • Characterized by PREEMPTION: • Bioinformation sequestered & controlled • Surveillance networks • Early warning systems • Data-mining operations • WHO rapid response teams • Global agency & information collaboration

  9. Biosecurity, cont. • Concerned with: • Sanctity of borders (22) • Normal vs pathological • Modern vs primitive

  10. Biosecurity, cont. • Justifies • Biological entities = biohazards (21) • Rationalization for eliminating “taints” or “weaknesses” in populations (10) • Continued state of emergency (23) • Making “our biological life our life’s work” (12)

  11. Think like a feminist scientist: • How would you account for disproportionate rates of a certain disease among a (racial, national, economic, gendered, etc.) population? • What assumptions/stereotypes might you avoid? • What factors might you consider?

  12. Think like a feminist scientist: • What kinds of coalitions would it be important for you, as a public health researcher, to build?

  13. Think like a feminist scientist: • What kinds of obstacles might you face as you seek to enact feminist politics?

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