Border Control

2 Credits · Level: Graduate

This course will combine expert presentation(s) on the bio-risk of infectious diseases emergence outside their historical territories, as well as the regulations and strategies needed to prepare for and prevent these border transgressions. The objective of this seminar is to address the factors that, on the one hand, promote biological risk at the border in the context of varied and complex situations related to the biotic (mobility, endemic/enzootic, social unrest, etc.) and abiotic (landscape, climate, etc.) environments present at the border. And on the other hand, to identify the solutions (tools and strategies: detection, quarantine facilities, etc.) and regulations (National and International Health regulations) necessary to prevent and control biological risk at the port of entry.