Preparedness and Prevention
The Preparedness and Prevention Research Program will deliver the knowledge required to underpin decisions on the risk of entry, establishment and spread for emergency plant pests. We need to be better prepared and prevent problems before they start. International trade regulations demand that prioritisation and targeting of biosecurity risk be done scientifically. Risk analysis is a set of disciplines that brings greater rigour to the decision-making.
Goal
Decreased incidence and impact of harmful emergency plant pest incursions through contributing to the development of systems, based on risk-weighted, science-based decision making.
Actions
- Develop knowledge to underpin risk analysis decisions on entry, establishment and spread for emergency plant pests.
- Develop new risk assessment models for biosecurity.
- Devise more efficient and effective responses to emergency plant pests through better understanding of their biology and epidemiology.
Benefits
- Increased level of preparedness for potential emergency plant pest incursions.
- Improved capacity to prioritise and identify the highest threat emergency plant pests.
- Increased preparedness for effect of global climate change on potential emergency plant pests.
Preparedness And Prevention Research Projects
| Title | Leader |
| CRC10001: Early Warning Threat Identification | Dr David Cook |
The Early Warning Threat Identification project will effectively identify emerging plant biosecurity threats that are not detected by existing systems. The project will provide improved tools to more | |
| CRC10010: Enhanced Risk Analysis Tools | Dr David Cook |
The Enhanced Risk Analysis Tools project will develop a national methodology to analyse and prioritise biosecurity risks to support preparedness, and to provide a higher level of confidence to more | |
| CRC10067: Evaluating Risk Analysis Systems | Dr Paul De Barro |
| The project aims to evaluate the performance of Australia's quarantine risk analysis systems. As is necessary for the validation of any system, ensuring that these risk assessment systems are more | |
| CRC10068: Comparison of Quarantine Risk Analysis Systems | Prof Kerrie Mengersen |
The comparison of quarantine risk analysis systems project will initially gather and collate information from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, USA, UK, Chile and Thailand. This helps develop more | |
| CRC10071: Climate Change | Dr Jo Luck |
The project aims to determine the potential risks associated with climate change for key wheat pathogens; wheat using stripe rust, crown rot and Barley yellow dwarf virus and its aphid vector. more | |
PROGRAM LEADER
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE
To undertake research that will fill critical gaps in the knowledge of the ecology and epidemiology of emergency plant pests to underpin decision making in biosecurity.
