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Public Private Partnerships in trust-based public health social networking: Connecting organizations for regional disease surveillance (CORDS)
Aug. 1, 2011A journal article published in the Journal of Commercial Biotechnology (2011) Volume 17, describing a new trust-based global health security initiative known as CORDS: Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance
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Gearing Up for Prevention: The Hajj Meets H1N1
Nov. 19, 2009Published on CNN's website, the article addresses epidemiological risks associated with the yearly Hajj, and describes what partnerships such as MECIDS are doing to address these risks.
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The Race Between Cooperation and Catastrophe
Nov. 20, 2003At a conference in Strasbourg, France, Sam Nunn speaks about the "Strengthening the Global Partnership" project, an NTI-funded consortium of 21 research institutions across Europe, Russia, the U.S. and Asia and what must be done to keep nuclear, biological and chemical weapons out of terrorist hands.
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Sam Nunn Discusses Need for New Public-Private Partnership to Reduce the Threat of Bioterrorism
Dec. 9, 2004NTI Co-Chairman Sam Nunn says that active leadership of the scientific community is essential to develop norms of scientific behavior that will secure dangerous biological materials without suffocating scientific research.
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Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D. testifies before the House Committee on Government Reform
April 9, 2003Dr. Hamburg testifies on important concerns raised by the emergence and ongoing response to the SARS outbreak, as well as broader issues of emerging infections, public health and security.
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Dr. Peggy Hamburg testifies before the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee
Oct. 17, 2001Testimony on the biological weapons threat.
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Air-Monitoring Stations in Texas Detect Signs of Tularemia
Oct. 10, 2003Two air-monitoring stations near Houston, Texas, recently detected signs of the biological weapons agent tularemia, but officials have said they do not think it is indicative of a terrorist attack, the Houston Chronicle reported yesterday. The stations, located in east Harris County, are part of a national system of biological detection stations (see GSN, Jan. 24).
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Rapid, Accurate Biological Attack Detection Capability Is Years Away, Experts Say
Oct. 22, 2003WASHINGTON ð— A device for rapidly detecting biological terrorism agents that is both fast and inexpensive could take six years or more to develop, two U.S. government technology experts said yesterday.
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Homeland Security Officials Display Biowatch System
Nov. 17, 2003U.S. Homeland Security Department officials Friday unveiled their new $60 million Project “Biowatch” air-monitoring system, the Associated Press reported (see GSN, Oct. 22).
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Washington Funds Bioterror Defenses on Mexican Border
Dec. 15, 2003The United States will put $5.4 million toward an effort to enhance disease detection capabilities on the border with Mexico, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said Friday (see GSN, Dec. 11).
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U.S. Officials Concerned About U.S. Vulnerability to Anthrax Attacks
Dec. 29, 2003Bush administration officials have said that there are new concerns about the vulnerability of the United States to anthrax attacks, noting the results of a recent attack simulation and information obtained from captured al-Qaeda operatives, the New York Times reported yesterday (see GSN, Dec. 2).
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Bush Administration Seeks to Double Disease Detection Funds
Jan. 30, 2004Seeking to improve the U.S. ability to detect disease outbreaks, including those caused by potential terrorist attacks, the Bush administration yesterday announced that it is asking Congress to at least double existing funding for such detection activities (see GSN, Sept. 26, 2003).
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