title: A discussion of findings and their possible implications from a workshop on bioterrorism threat assessment and risk management.
abstract: In November 2001, the Monterey Institute of International Studies convened a workshop on bioterrorism threat assessment and risk management. Risk assessment practitioners from various disciplines, but without specialized knowledge of terrorism, were brought together with security and intelligence threat analysts to stimulate an exchange that could be useful to both communities. This article, prepared by a subset of the participants, comments on the workshop's findings and their implications and makes three recommendations, two short term (use of threat assessment methodologies and vulnerability analysis) and one long term (application of quantitative risk assessment and modeling), regarding the practical application of risk assessment methods to bioterrorism issues.
authors.affiliation: Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Raymond A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Zilinskas
authors.forename: Bruce
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hope
authors.forename: D Warner
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: North
mesh_terms: D023482:Bioterrorism / Q000517:prevention & control*; D019992:Databases as Topic; D004189:Disaster Planning; D004777:Environment; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011634:Public Health; D012306:Risk; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors; D012308:Risk Management; D013997:Time Factors