“Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to saving lives by protecting the health of every community and working to make disease prevention a national priority.” Among other achievements, “TFAH has…created specific policy recommendations based on some of the most pressing issues facing public health today. These include recommendations for improving our nation’s laboratory capacity, birth defects monitoring and prevention programs, response to emerging animal-borne diseases, and efforts to develop effective strategies in the War on Cancer, based on cancer monitoring statistics.”
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Union of German Academies of Sciences and Humanities (UGASH)
“The Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities is the umbrella organisation of eight academies of sciences and humanities that have joined together to promote their common interests. It assembles more than 1600 scholars from a diverse range of academic fields, all of which are outstanding representatives of their disciplines, both nationally and internationally. Together, they are committed to promoting scientific exchange, excellent research, and the emergence of new talent in the liberal arts and sciences.”
Division within UGASH with a role or interest in biosecurity:
International Relations
“[O]ne of the responsibilities of the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities [is] to act on behalf of its member academies at home and abroad.”
- July 20, 2010
- | Filed under Europe, Academia, and National Academy
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United Nations (UN)
The UN serves as a centre for harmonizing the actions of independent nations. In order to achieve that harmonization, the UN is broken up into six main bodies: the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Trusteeship Council, the Economic and Social Council, the International Court of Justice, and the Secretariat. Combined with the UN programmes, funds, specialized agencies, and analogous bodies, the UN is a centre for international diplomacy and administrator of many international treaties and agreements.
Division(s) within the UN with a role or interest in biosecurity:
Counter-Terrorism Committee
Office for Disarmament Affairs (DDA)
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST)
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)
Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
World Health Organization (WHO)
Website: http://www.un.org/
Code of Ethics: UNESCO Declaration on Science and the Use of Scientific Knowledge
Text adopted by the World Conference on Science. 1 July 1999. Definitive version
- March 30, 2011
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Univeristy of Hamburg
Hamburg Centre for Biological Weapons and Arms Control
The Centre was founded in the Summer of 2003 at the University of Hamburg. The aim is to contribute, through innovative research and outreach activities, to the universal prevention of biological weapon development, production and use. The development of new verification strategies and concepts is the core research area of the Study Group.
