@article{
author = "Kokoškov, Nenad and Ristanović, Elizabeta",
year = "2019",
abstract = "Medical Intelligence - MEDINT, as a relatively novel platform of intelligence, focuses on the public health as one of the most important and valuable social categories, while at the same time promoting a complex and diverse range of unconventional security risks and threats. In modern practice, basically we can recognize three applied forms of MEDINT: military (within the military intelligence and security sector), civil (as a segment of public security) and commercial (as personalized medical consulting service). This paper describes the fundamental elements of the historical genesis of MEDINT, as well as its evolution through the history of warfare and international conflicts focusing on its transfer from a military to a civil security-intelligence matrix. In addition, it promotes the five key areas of contemporary civil MEDINT: public health; agricultural resources; the environment; the health of prominent individuals (VIP health) and monitoring of dual use biotechnological R&D ( as well as their practical application). Also it shows the most significant features of MEDINT as one very specific form of contemporary intelligence. With respect to the obvious comprehensiveness of the area of its operation, it is quite clear that MEDINT has to be based on the collection, processing and analysis of a huge amount of diverse information and data. Hence, its implementation requires the selection and engagement of experts of various profiles that must be carefully introduced into the intelligence community. Subsequently, this paper places and analyzes MEDINT within the context of the national security-intelligence community of the Republic of Serbia. It depicts the most significant challenges in the introduction of the topic of public health into the national security agenda, pointing out the lack of a legal framework and the importance of the support of key decision-makers. Finally, it emphasizes the importance of integrative implementation of MEDINT into the national intelligence community, which would functionally connect the state institutions of management as well as its security-intelligence subjects with the institutions of public health, civil society, and the academic community., Mедицински обавештајни рад – МЕДИНТ као релативно нова платформа обавештајног деловања, у фокус свог рада поставља јавно здравље као једну од најзначајнијих вредносних категорија друштва, промовишући при томе читав комплексан и разноврстан спектар неконвенционалних безбедносних ризика и претњи. Овај рад описује основне елементе историјске генезе МЕДИНТ-а, као и његов трансфер из војних у цивилне обавештајно-безбедносне матрице. Такође, он приказује и најзначајније особености МЕДИНТ-а као врло специфичне форме савременог обавештајног рада. Коначно, МЕДИНТ је постављен и анализиран у контексту националне обавештајно-безбедносне заједнице Републике Србије. При томе, представљени су и највећи изазови у његовој интегративној имплементацији која би функционално по- везивала кључне управљачке и обавештајно-безбедносне субјекте државе са институцијама из домена јавног здравља, цивилног друштва и академске заједнице.",
publisher = "Ministarstvo unutrašnjih poslova Republike Srbije, Beograd",
journal = "Bezbednost, Beograd",
title = "Medical intelligence, its importance and perspectives in the security-intelligence community of the Republic of Serbia",
volume = "61",
number = "1",
pages = "89-109",
doi = "10.5937/bezbednost1901089K"
}
