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Removing Barriers to Global Pandemic Influenza Vaccination
“This article clarifies the regulatory issues surrounding influenza pandemic vaccine for the larger policy community and describes the need for regulatory harmonization. Vaccination would save lives in an influenza pandemic, but a lack of global manufacturing capacity will leave most of the world without access to vaccine. Capacity can be expanded if governments harmonize their Read More »
- June 27, 2011
- | Filed under Asia/Pacific, Europe, North America, Report, and 2001-2025
Challenges to Global Surveillance and Response to Infectious Disease Outbreaks of International Importance
“This article presents a notional scheme of global surveillance and response to infectious disease outbreaks and reviews 14 international surveillance and response programs. In combination, the scheme and the programs illustrate how, in an ideal world and in the real world, infectious disease outbreaks of public health significance could be detected and contained. Notable practices Read More »
U.S. Efforts to Investigate and Attribute the Use of Biological Weapons
“On several occasions over the past half-century, the U.S. government has had to address the issue of biological weapons use. In two of those instances, during the Korean War and in Cuba repeatedly since the 1960s, the United States itself was the target of allegations of having used biological weapons. This chapter begins by discussing Read More »
- June 27, 2011
- | Filed under North America, Report, and 2001-2025
Competing Responsibilities?: Addressing the Security Risks of Biological Research in Academia
“On January 21 and 22, 2010, the American Association for the advancement of Science (AAAS), the Association of American Universities (AAU), and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) hosted a meeting with university leadership, scientists, representatives of the security community, and policy-makers to explore the perceptions of risk held by different communities, review Read More »
- June 27, 2011
- | Filed under North America, Report, and 2001-2025
Beyond Biosecurity: the Principle of Dual-Use
“Dual-use is a concept which is playing an increasingly important part in many aspects of scientific research. It deals with the possibility that well-intentioned scientific research with beneficial outcomes could be misused for malicious purposes by a third party, a notion which is becoming prominent in debates on biosecurity, research control, funding and publication of Read More »
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