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Microbial Forensics: Educating the Workforce and the Community
Disciplines related to microbial forensics are evolving rapidly. This evolution includes technology, analytical capabilities, and, equally as important, education and training. The scientific bases, applications, interpretations, and lessons learned by those who have been intimately involved in the...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7150195/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-382006-8.00039-6 |
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description | Disciplines related to microbial forensics are evolving rapidly. This evolution includes technology, analytical capabilities, and, equally as important, education and training. The scientific bases, applications, interpretations, and lessons learned by those who have been intimately involved in the early years of microbial forensics need to be documented and transferred to the next generation of scientists and decision makers so that we can protect society from potential harm resulting from bioterrorism and biocrime. The burgeoning field of microbial forensics should be accompanied by a parallel development of educational infrastructure and resources targeted at the next generation of practitioners, as well as diverse elements for the policy, research, and law enforcement communities. A microbial forensics education program can be broad, providing information encompassing all aspects of the field from science to policy, or more focused depending on its purpose and target audience. Policy makers must have a general understanding of microbial forensics results and better appreciation of their implications in order to effect sound and defensible policy decisions. Finally, an important group that informs the public and government is the news media. They are frequently the primary interface between the scientist and the public, making their observations, insights, or inaccuracies of great importance and impact. Educational efforts will better prepare such individuals to be informed and responsible and must be varied in depth and scope to match the target audience of various entities involved in microbial forensics. |
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spelling | pubmed-71501952020-04-13 Microbial Forensics: Educating the Workforce and the Community Schutzer, Steven E. Budowle, Bruce Keim, Paul S. Microbial Forensics Article Disciplines related to microbial forensics are evolving rapidly. This evolution includes technology, analytical capabilities, and, equally as important, education and training. The scientific bases, applications, interpretations, and lessons learned by those who have been intimately involved in the early years of microbial forensics need to be documented and transferred to the next generation of scientists and decision makers so that we can protect society from potential harm resulting from bioterrorism and biocrime. The burgeoning field of microbial forensics should be accompanied by a parallel development of educational infrastructure and resources targeted at the next generation of practitioners, as well as diverse elements for the policy, research, and law enforcement communities. A microbial forensics education program can be broad, providing information encompassing all aspects of the field from science to policy, or more focused depending on its purpose and target audience. Policy makers must have a general understanding of microbial forensics results and better appreciation of their implications in order to effect sound and defensible policy decisions. Finally, an important group that informs the public and government is the news media. They are frequently the primary interface between the scientist and the public, making their observations, insights, or inaccuracies of great importance and impact. Educational efforts will better prepare such individuals to be informed and responsible and must be varied in depth and scope to match the target audience of various entities involved in microbial forensics. 2011 2010-09-23 /pmc/articles/PMC7150195/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-382006-8.00039-6 Text en Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Schutzer, Steven E. Budowle, Bruce Keim, Paul S. Microbial Forensics: Educating the Workforce and the Community |
title | Microbial Forensics: Educating the Workforce and the Community |
title_full | Microbial Forensics: Educating the Workforce and the Community |
title_fullStr | Microbial Forensics: Educating the Workforce and the Community |
title_full_unstemmed | Microbial Forensics: Educating the Workforce and the Community |
title_short | Microbial Forensics: Educating the Workforce and the Community |
title_sort | microbial forensics: educating the workforce and the community |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7150195/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-382006-8.00039-6 |
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