title: The securitisation of pandemic influenza: framing, security and public policy.
abstract: This article examines how pandemic influenza has been framed as a security issue, threatening the functioning of both state and society, and the policy responses to this framing. Pandemic influenza has long been recognised as a threat to human health. Despite this, for much of the twentieth century it was not recognised as a security threat. In the decade surrounding the new millennium, however, the disease was successfully securitised with profound implications for public policy. This article addresses the construction of pandemic influenza as a threat. Drawing on the work of the Copenhagen School, it examines how it was successfully securitised at the turn of the millennium and with what consequences for public policy.
authors.affiliation: Centre for International Security Studies (CISS), University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. adam.kamradt-scott@sydney.edu.au
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kamradt-Scott
authors.forename: Colin
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: McInnes
mesh_terms: D003140:Communicable Disease Control; D014943:Global Health; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D007251:Influenza, Human / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D058873:Pandemics; D011057:Politics; D011634:Public Health; D011640:Public Policy; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012308:Risk Management