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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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Between Publishing and Perishing? H5N1 Research Unleashes Unprecedented Dual-Use Research Controversy
May 3, 2012Recently, researchers in the Netherlands and the United States identified genetic mutations that could enable H5N1 bird flu to become easily transmissible from one human to another. Controversy has emerged about whether the details of these two particularly sensitive H5N1 studies should be openly published to aid global pandemic preparedness or withheld in the interests of national security. Because similar ...
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Remarks to the Pacific Health Summit
June 11, 2007Sam Nunn, Co-Chairman of NTI, speaks at the Pacific Health Summit in Seattle.
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United States, Singapore to Create Joint Biological Research Center
Oct. 23, 2003The United States and Singapore are set to create a joint biological research center next year to help combat bioterrorism, the Straits Times reported yesterday (see GSN, Oct. 21).
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WHO Calls for International Meeting on Bird Flu Research Dust-Up
Jan. 17, 2012The World Health Organization this week declared its intention to host an international gathering to examine the issue of whether scientific research should be published if some nations believe that doing so could aid terrorists looking to develop biological weapons, the Canadian National Post reported.
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U.N. Official Calls For Stronger International Monitoring of Synthetic Biology
Sept. 28, 2012A senior U.N. official this week called for the establishment of an international mechanism for ensuring that advances in biotechnology are not exploited to develop biological weapons, BBC News reported.
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Most Nations Still Lack Required Disease Outbreak Response Capacity
Feb. 28, 2013WASHINGTON -- A majority of nations have yet to fulfill a 6-year-old U.N. mandate to develop certain critical public health capacities to respond to naturally occurring or man-made disease outbreaks, according to a senior U.S. State Department official.
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