MEDICAL INTELLIGENCE AND PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE COMPLEXITIES OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIETIES THE ROLE OF FBI IN THE UNITED STATES

Antonella  Colonna Vilasi

Antonella Colonna Vilasi Director; Center for Intelligence Studies, Italy

Keywords: Medical Intelligence, Security, Global Health, FBI, SMI

Abstract

Research Paper

DOI: 10.37458/ssj.5.2.3

The term Medical Intelligence (Medint) defines the activities of collection, evaluation, analysis and interpretation of medical, bio-scientific and environmental information, regarding a specific country or geographical area, carried out mainly by military or intelligence agencies and carried out abroad, and useful for military or humanitarian strategic planning. It is of interest to Medint to know the potential of local health facilities, both civil and military, in the diagnostic evaluation, in case of infectious pathologies and in the evaluation of environmental risks as well as the "state of the art" of the development of computerized diagnostic technology and of biotechnology. The SMI (Strategic Medical Intelligence) is instead institutionally delegated to the intelligence agencies that deal with territorial control (counter-terrorism). In the United States, the SMI bioterrorism experts depend on the FBI. According to the definition offered by the FBI, Strategic Medical Intelligence (SMI) deals with all the management activities of a medical or health crisis situation following a terrorist act.

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