{"id":441,"date":"2020-08-25T10:28:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T14:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/biosecurity\/faqs\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T15:37:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T19:37:59","slug":"faqs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/biosecurity\/faqs\/","title":{"rendered":"FAQs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container-fluid page-wrapper bodytext sitefont\">\n<section>\n<div class=\"qaOnClick\">\n<div class=\"lc-block\">\n<div editable=\"rich\">\n<h1 class=\"page-header\">Frequently Asked Questions<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"list-group lc-block\">\n<div lc-helper=\"shortcode\" class=\"live-shortcode\">\n<div class=\"qaOnClick col-sm-12\">\n    <div class=\"faqs-list\">\n                    <ul>\n                                        \n                        \n                    <li>\n                        <strong><a href=\"#FAQLink751\" id=\"FAQLink751\" onclick=\"javascript: if (document.getElementById('FAQ751').style.display == 'none') {document.getElementById('FAQ751').style.display = 'block'} else {document.getElementById('FAQ751').style.display = 'none'};\">What is biosecurity?<\/a><\/strong>\n                    <\/li>\n                    <div id=\"FAQ751\" style=\"display:none\">\n                        <p>Biosecurity is the science and practice of safeguarding lives and livelihoods.<\/p>\n                    <\/div>                 \n                                        \n                        \n                    <li>\n                        <strong><a href=\"#FAQLink752\" id=\"FAQLink752\" onclick=\"javascript: if (document.getElementById('FAQ752').style.display == 'none') {document.getElementById('FAQ752').style.display = 'block'} else {document.getElementById('FAQ752').style.display = 'none'};\">Why is Biosecurity important?<\/a><\/strong>\n                    <\/li>\n                    <div id=\"FAQ752\" style=\"display:none\">\n                        <p>Biosecurity is meant to address systematic vulnerabilities to the biological ecosystem to preserve lives and livelihoods. It is necessary to reduce exposures and risks that can cause harm e.g. in a home you have windows and doors as part of the security system and you may also have burglar bars which are designed to keep out criminals from your home. In a similar way these windows and doors, which are a form of border security, also keep out unwanted pests such as rodents, cockroaches, centipedes, slugs, mosquitoes, etc to reduce contact with persons who reside in the home. So we actually practice biosecurity every day even at a very basic level.<\/p>\n                    <\/div>                 \n                                        \n                        \n                    <li>\n                        <strong><a href=\"#FAQLink753\" id=\"FAQLink753\" onclick=\"javascript: if (document.getElementById('FAQ753').style.display == 'none') {document.getElementById('FAQ753').style.display = 'block'} else {document.getElementById('FAQ753').style.display = 'none'};\">Who exactly is involved in biosecurity?<\/a><\/strong>\n                    <\/li>\n                    <div id=\"FAQ753\" style=\"display:none\">\n                        <p>Biosecurity spans a very wide diversity of professions and areas of study including anthropology, social sciences, culture, political science, agriculture, plant health, biology, chemistry, disaster management, economics, environmental management, international development, data sciences, international relations, medicine, legal profession, peace and conflict resolution, advocacy and policy development, information technology, public health, national defense, international trade and veterinary science.<\/p>\n                    <\/div>                 \n                                        \n                        \n                    <li>\n                        <strong><a href=\"#FAQLink754\" id=\"FAQLink754\" onclick=\"javascript: if (document.getElementById('FAQ754').style.display == 'none') {document.getElementById('FAQ754').style.display = 'block'} else {document.getElementById('FAQ754').style.display = 'none'};\">What are some of the major biosecurity threats to the Caribbean?<\/a><\/strong>\n                    <\/li>\n                    <div id=\"FAQ754\" style=\"display:none\">\n                        <p>The Caribbean is comprised of several small island developing states (SIDS) which face a plethora vulnerabilities including severe weather systems, climate change, infectious diseases, chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs), natural disasters, water scarcity, energy demand, waste management, man-made disasters (environmental pollution, terrorism, etc.), cybercrime, financial crimes.<\/p>\n                    <\/div>                 \n                                        \n                        \n                    <li>\n                        <strong><a href=\"#FAQLink755\" id=\"FAQLink755\" onclick=\"javascript: if (document.getElementById('FAQ755').style.display == 'none') {document.getElementById('FAQ755').style.display = 'block'} else {document.getElementById('FAQ755').style.display = 'none'};\">What jobs exist in the Biosecurity area of study?<\/a><\/strong>\n                    <\/li>\n                    <div id=\"FAQ755\" style=\"display:none\">\n                        <p>Given the broad scope of biosecurity there are several organisations at the governmental, national, regional and international level that are directly involved in biosecurity activities including CARPHA, CARICOM, WHO, PAHO.<\/p>\n                    <\/div>                 \n                            <\/ul>\n                    <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frequently Asked Questions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"slim_seo":{"title":"What jobs exist in the Biosecurity area of study? - Centre for Biosecurity Studies","description":""},"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-441","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/biosecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/biosecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/biosecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/biosecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/biosecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/biosecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/biosecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/441\/revisions\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/biosecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}