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Focuses on the relationship amongst political instability, conflict, fragile settings and infectious disease, as well as the corresponding impacts on local and global populations. Reviews how a country’s national and foreign policy positions impact health systems and assesses the risk of infectious disease threats when nations become unstable due to factors such as internal state actors, man-made sources of instability, terrorism, and/or natural disaster and climate change. Focuses on discussions on why particular infectious diseases are prone to emergence or re-emergence during conflict and instability, and the impacts of those diseases on national systems and broader global health security. Gains a general understanding of recent global political conflicts and environmental threats, and how pathogens that were previously considered controllable now take their toll on a population, health system and/or governance structure.