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Information Sharing and Collaboration: Applications to Integrated Biosurveillance – Workshop Summary
“After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and subsequent anthrax mailings, the U.S. government prioritized a biosurveillance strategy aimed at detecting, monitoring, and characterizing national security health threats in human and animal populations, food, water, agriculture, and the environment. A variety of agencies share biosurveillance responsibilities, and efforts have been made to improve national biosurveillance Read More »
- November 30, 2011
- | Filed under North America, Featured, Report, and 2001-2025
China’s Emerging Global Health and Foreign Aid Engagement in Africa
“This volume is a compilation of papers that were written for the Conference on China’s Emerging Global Health and Foreign Aid Engagement, sponsored by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and the China Institute of International Studies (CIIS), in Beijing on May 24, 2011, as part of a larger CSIS initiative to examine Read More »
- November 30, 2011
- | Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, Featured, Report, and 2001-2025
Aum Shinrikyo: Insights Into How Terrorists Develop Biological and Chemical Weapons
“In 1995, the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo unleashed terror on the Tokyo subway system with a highly publicized sarin gas attack. However, less is known about the group’s development of biological and chemical weapons and about their prior attacks using these weapons. The CNAS report, Aum Shinrikyo: Insights Into How Terrorists Develop Biological and Chemical Read More »
- July 27, 2011
- | Filed under Asia/Pacific, North America, Featured, Report, and 2001-2025
Balancing Scientific Publication and National Security Concerns: Issues for Congress
“This report presents recent examples of scientific research results whose publication raised concern regarding the threat they potentially pose to national security. Past and current information control mechanisms are discussed, along with current federal policy concerning dissemination of fundamental research results through the open literature. Recent policy actions regarding dissemination of federal information and federally Read More »
- July 11, 2011
- | Filed under North America, Report, and 2001-2025
Ten Years after 9/11 and the Anthrax Attacks: Protecting Against Biological Threats
Testimony of Thomas Inglesby, MD, Director, Center for Biosecurity of UPMC before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, October 18, 2011 Conclusions: The country has made steady progress in the last decade, but there is much more that needs to be done to make us resilient to biological threats. There is Read More »
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