Risk Assessment (Unintentional Introductions)

Theme Scope:

• Systems approaches for risk assessment: assess risk at any point along the pathway to determine optimal mitigations and equivalence of treatments
• Risk grouping: group organisms for more efficient risk analysis
• Future risks: identify emerging risks to prioritise activities
• Impact prediction: predict potential impacts of unwanted organisms to inform biosecurity interventions.

Current research in this theme includes (June 2019):

• Sentinel plants to forecast and future proof NZ plant systems against pests and diseases
• Integrated biosecurity risk assessment models for imports
• On-line automated climate matching functionality
• Phytophthora biosecurity and biogeography
• Pasture pest risk analysis