Macquarie University Biomarker Symposium for Military Applications
Abstract
Real-time and continuous biomarker monitoring, commonly now called wearables, is considered to be the next step inmonitoring Military personnel for their physical performance and injury prevention and is something that has been considered tobe of importance for a long time (Lee et al., 2017; Sawka & Friedl, 2018). Traditionally, biomarkers have been considered only tobe those measured from blood, saliva, or urine, however, with recent technological and analytical advances it is now also possibleto collect data related to musculoskeletal health (Johnson, Alderson, Lloyd, & Mian, 2019; Vitali et al., 2019). However, largely,these efforts are undertaken in isolation and we must now move towards unification of these efforts to understand how we canstreamline a biomarker monitoring approach that would best fit the need of Military organisations.One of the key areas being targeted for this symposium, in particular, is the measurement and analysis of in-the-wildmovement monitoring and performance of, for example, infantry soldiers for the prediction of musculoskeletal injury risk andperformance monitoring. The relatively recent advancement of inertial motion units and data analytics has opened up thepossibility of continual monitoring of personnel, together with meaningful data analytics will assist commanders with combatdecision making. Combined with measures from blood, sweat, etc. it is thought that a fully comprehensive real-time health andperformance monitoring system can be developed for Military purposes.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Apr 06, 2021
- Source ID
- N629092112016
Entities
People
- Tim Doyle
Organizations
- Macquarie University
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy