Graeme Harkess

Graeme Harkess is member of the Pirbright Institute. Graeme has carried out studies in relation to “biosecurity governance” and other governance issues emerging from the COVID-19 crisis. Graeme Harkess is part of the team that published the scientific article "Embrace experimentation in biosecurity governance", where it is postulated that the "changes in technical, social, and political environments, coupled with the emergence of natural diseases such as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 ), are testing existing governance processes (...) "," which has led some communities to look beyond existing biosecurity models, policies, and procedures. But without systematic analysis and learning across them, it is hard to know what works . " In their work, the team suggests that "activities focused on rethinking biosecurity governance present opportunities to" experiment "with new sets of assumptions about the relationship among biology, security, and society, leading to the development, assessment, and iteration of governance hypotheses".