Forward; T. Unnasch.- Section 1 Emerging threats.- Plagues, Epidemics and Pandemics; R. Izurieta.- Agricultural Emergencies: Factors and Impacts in the Spread of Transboundary Diseases in, and adjacent to, Agriculture; A. Hydrick.- The Threat within: mitigating the risk of medical error; S. Bennett.- Climate Change, Extreme Weather Events and Global Health Security- A lens into vulnerabilities; C. Bell, A. Masys.- Global Health Biosecurity in a Vulnerable World - An Evaluation of Emerging Threats and Current Disaster Preparedness Strategies for the Future; K. Miley.- The emerging threat of Ebola; M. Labrunda, N. Amin.- Section 2: Mitigation, Preparedness and Response and Recovery.- Natural and Manmade Disasters: Vulnerable Populations; J. Marshall et al.- Sexual Violence; S. Spowart.-Global Health Security and Weapons of Mass Destruction; C. Reynolds.- Antimicrobial Resistance in One Health; M. Medina et al.- Food Security - microbiological and chemical risks; J. Schlundt et al.- Section 3: Exploring the technology Landscape for Solutions. Gaussianization of variational Bayesian approximations with correlated non-nested non-negligible posterior mean random effects employing non-negativity constraint analogs and analytical depossinization for iteratively fitting capture point, Aedes aegypti habitat non-zero autocorrelated prognosticators: A case study in evidential probabilities for non-frequentistic forecast epi-entomological time series modeling of arboviral infections; A. Huertas et al.- Simulation, Modeling and Telemedicine in Global Health Security; A. French.- The growing role of social media in international health security: The good, the bad, and the ugly; S.P. Stawicki et al.- Section 4: Leadership and partnerships. Effecting Collective Impact through Collective Leadership on a Foundation of Generative Relationships; M. Levine.- Global Health Innovation; J. Stikeleather, A. Masys.

Anthony Masys is an Associate Professor and Director of Global Disaster Management, Humanitarian Assistance and Homeland Security. A former senior Air Force Officer, Dr Masys has a BSc in Physics and MSc in Underwater Acoustics and Oceanography from the Royal Military College of Canada and a PhD from the University of Leicester. He is Editor in Chief for Springer Publishing book series: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications and holds various advisory board positions with academic journals and books series.

He is an internationally recognized author, speaker and facilitator and has held workshops on security, visual thinking, design thinking and systems thinking in Europe, Canada, South America, West Africa and Asia. He has published extensively in the domains of physics and the social sciences. His recent books include:

- Opening the Black Box of Human Error

- Networks and Network Analysis for Defence and Security. Springer Publishing

- Disaster Management- Enabling Resilience. Springer Publishing

- Applications of Systems Thinking and Soft Operations Research for managing complexity. Springer Publishing

- Exploring the Security Landscape- non-traditional security challenges. Springer Publishing.

- Disaster Forensics: understanding root cause and complexity causality. Springer Publishing

- Asia/Pacific Security challenges: managing black swans and persistent threats. Springer Publishing

- Security by Design (in press)

Ricardo Izurieta received his MD from the Central University of Ecuador and after graduation, carried out his postdoctoral training in Public Health and Tropical Diseases. In 1991, he faced the cholera epidemic that spread through Latin American countries as National Director of the Cholera Control Program in the Ministry of Public Health of Ecuador. In 1997, he was appointed Chief of the Department of Epidemiology and Director of The Vaccine Center of the Armed Forces of Ecuador. During his studies, he has been a USAID Thomas Jefferson Fellow, a PAHO Research Fellow, a Gorgas Memorial Institute Fellow, and a FUNDACYT Fellow. In 2003, he was elected Vice President of the Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine. To date, he still holds this appointment.