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Between Publishing and Perishing? H5N1 Research Unleashes Unprecedented Dual-Use Research Controversy
May 3, 2012 | Michael TuRecently, 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 trade-offs will emerge frequently in the field of biotechnology, the task of devising effective management strategies for so-called "dual-use research of concern" will continue to increase in both complexity and importance.
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Public Private Partnerships in trust-based public health social networking: Connecting organizations for regional disease surveillance (CORDS)
Aug. 1, 2011 | Louise S. Gresham, PhD, MPHA 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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Remarks to the Pacific Health Summit
June 11, 2007 | Sam NunnSam Nunn, Co-Chairman of NTI, speaks at the Pacific Health Summit in Seattle.
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Lessons from Select Public Health Events Having Relevance to Bioterrorism Preparedness
April 11, 2007 | Tamara R. Chapman, Raymond A. ZilinskasTamara Chapman and Raymond Zilinskas analyze public health responses in three cities challenged by extraordinary disease outbreaks and draw lessons useful to those who are involved in bioterrorism preparedness.
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Is the Avian Influenza Virus a Suitable Agent for a Biological Weapon?
Jan. 11, 2007 | Amanda N. Koch, Burke K. ZimmermanAmanda Koch and Burke Zimmerman investigate the potential for avian influenza to be used as a biological weapon agent.
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Sam Nunn Discusses Need for New Public-Private Partnership to Reduce the Threat of Bioterrorism
Dec. 9, 2004 | Sam NunnNTI 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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Sam Nunn's Statement Regarding the Report of the UN High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change
Dec. 2, 2004 | Sam NunnNTI Co-Chairman Sam Nunn commends the panel for recognizing that "we need to do more, faster" to reduce the threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and materials.
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Diseases Gaining Ground: SARS Exposes Gaps in Public Health Systems
May 26, 2003 | Sam NunnPublished in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, this op-ed outlines the weaknesses in our global health system that have been exposed through the global response to SARS.
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Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D. testifies before the House Committee on Government Reform
April 9, 2003 | Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D.Dr. 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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Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D. testifies before the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee
July 9, 2002 | Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D.In this testimony, Dr. Hamburg discusses the proposed new Department of Homeland Security and the implications for biosecurity and public health.
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Public Health Preparedness and Our Global Security
June 19, 2002 | Sam NunnIn remarks at a CDC sponsored conference on "Public Health and the Law," Senator Nunn outlines several of the key policy issues facing the U.S. and the world with a particular focus on the importance of public health becoming an 'indispensable pillar' in our global security framework.
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Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D. testifies before the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs
April 18, 2002 | Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D.Testimony on the state of public health preparedness for terrorism involving weapons of mass destruction.
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