Organizations

By Region: North America

The Royal Society of Canada

The Royal Society of Canada is the senior national body of distinguished Canadian scientists and scholars. Its primary objective is to promote learning and research in the arts and sciences through education, outreach, and cooperative programs.

Website:
http://www.rsc.ca/
Phone:
+1 (613) 991-6990
Address:
170 Waller Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 9B9, Canada

Toronto University

Joint Centre for Bioethics The centre strives to provide leadership in bioethics research, education, and clinical activities. Though focusing on bioethics for medicine practitioners, their research and experience in policy and codes of conduct are useful while examining dual-use issues in life sciences research.

Website:
http://www.jointcentreforbioethics.ca/index.shtml
Phone:
+ 1 (416) 978-2709
Address:
University of Toronto, 155 College Street, Suite 754, Toronto, ON M5T 1P8, Canada

Trust for America’s Health

“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  Read More »

Website:
http://healthyamericans.org/
Phone:
(202) 223-9870
Address:
1707 H Street NW 7th Floor,Washington, DC 20006 USA

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,  Read More »

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

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University of Alabama at Birmingham

Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infections The overall mission of this newly created center is to develop a comprehensive University-wide program to support the research effort in biodefense and emerging infections. Capitalizing on the $1.4 billion in federal funding to be released for this effort, this Center will provide scientists with the infrastructure to seek  Read More »

Phone:
(205) 996-9600
Address:
303 Children's Harbour Building Birmingham, AL 35233-0011, USA
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