East 🧬 Health & Biological risks

Health is more than care provision – it is an expression of systemic resilience. The eastern zone of the Geo-Resilience Compass focuses on those biological and infrastructural risks that often unfold gradually: zoonoses, pandemics, microbiological stressors and the fragility of supply and care systems.

Earth Observation (EO) is understood here as a strategic bridge between environmental and health systems. It enables not only the spatial identification of biological risks, but also the derivation of preventive measures, the stabilization of critical infrastructures and the interlinking of cross-sectoral data logic – without crossing institutional boundaries.

This compass zone finds expression in modules and concepts that foster:

• the further exposure of zoonotic, pandemic and microbiological risks in order to close remaining gaps, with EO-based pattern recognition and environmental monitoring playing a decisive role
• prevention and monitoring as a continuous process between environmental observation, health data and sectoral communication
• the examination of interfaces between environmental and health systems, using EO as a bridge and amplifier

The eastern compass direction stands for anticipatory care: it is intended to create additional conditions for early response, systemic coherence and resilient supply security – supported by EO and embedded in an architecture that not only reacts, but prepares.

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This contribution was authored by Birgit Bortoluzzi, strategic architect and certified Graduate Disaster Manager. The content reflects original interdisciplinary synthesis developed within the framework of the Geo-Resilience Initiative.