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This website is supported by funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
 

Copyright

Unless otherwise noted, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) holds copyright for all materials on this website, with all rights reserved. The copyright notice, "Copyright © 2008 University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. All rights reserved" appears at the bottom of every page of this website.

Editorial Policies and Procedures

This website is produced and maintained by the Center for Biosecurity and does not purport to advance any official positions of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). The Center for Biosecurity maintains editorial control of all materials published on this site, and unless noted otherwise, all materials posted on this site have been authored and edited by Center staff.

Mention of specific products by generic or brand name does not constitute endorsement by the Center for Biosecurity of UPMC, its editors, or staff; the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center or its staff; the University of Pittsburgh or its faculty or staff; or subscribers to any Center publication. Any mention of specific products is for educational purposes only. Regarding specific products or drugs, physicians and other health care providers are advised to consult their normal resources before prescribing to their patients.

Articles that appear in the journal Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science are published by Mary Ann Leibert, Inc., in accordance with the Journal’s editorial policies and procedures, and are posted on the website http://www.liebertonline.com/loi/bsp. We provide links to those articles from this site. Mary Ann Leibert, Inc., retains copyright to all articles published in the Journal.
  

Editorial and Production Staff

Executive Editors: Tara O’Toole, MD, MPH, and Thomas V. Inglesby, MD
Senior Science Advisor: DA Henderson, MD, MPH
Website Director and Managing Editor: Mary Beth Hansen, MA
Director of Production and Design: Megan Van Wagoner
Editor and Producer: Molly D’Esopo
Consulting Editor: Jackie Fox
Producer and Technical Assistant: Richard Messick
Production Assistants: Kim Biasucci, Elaine Hughes, Tanna Liggins, Darcell Vinson

Contributing Editors

Agents and Diseases: Luciana Borio, MD, and Michael Mair, MPH
Avian/Pandemic Influenza: Eric Toner, MD, and Jennifer Nuzzo, SM
Business and Biosecurity: Jennifer Nuzzo, SM
Community Engagement: Monica Schoch-Spana, PhD
Countermeasure Development: Brad Smith, PhD
Government Policy and Programs: Crystal Franco
Hospital Preparedness: Eric Toner, MD, and Richard Waldhorn, MD
International Biosecurity: Gigi Kwik Gronvall, PhD, and Brad Smith, PhD
Public Health Preparedness: Jennifer Nuzzo, SM
Science and Biosecurity: Gigi Kwik Gronvall, PhD

Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science Editorial Board

Biosecurity Briefing Editorial Board

Clinicians’ Biosecurity Network Editorial Board

Subscriptions

Biosecurity Briefing: This weekly update provides timely, concise summaries of news, issues, and events that pertain to biosecurity and biodefense. Biosecurity Briefing is produced by the Center for Biosecurity, an independent, nonprofit Center of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. All material transmitted via Biosecurity Briefing is based on information that has been gathered and analyzed by the staff of the Center for Biosecurity.

Biosecurity Briefing is published once per week, usually on Friday, and can be delivered via email to those who choose to register and subscribe to this publication. Registration and subscription are voluntary, and readers can unsubscribe at will, at any time.

▪ Subscribe and register online
▪ Biosecurity Briefing is also available via RSS feed; see below.

Clinicians’ Biosecurity Network (CBN): This website provides authoritative and timely information to clinicians who are interested in biodefense preparedness and response. The CBN has been designed to provide a robust and secure tool for collecting and disseminating information pertinent to biosecurity in the face of ongoing or unusual circumstances such as suspected or confirmed bioterrorism attacks, emergent disease outbreaks, or threats to the nation's medical and/or public health systems. All material posted on the CBN is based on information that has been gathered and analyzed by the staff of the Center for Biosecurity.

The CBN offers two publications, both available by subscription.

CBN Report: Brief weekly summaries describing recent developments in science, public health, medicine, governance, national/homeland security, and domestic/foreign policy that have significance for clinicians involved in biodefense.

CBN Special Bulletin: Time-stamped updates published during times of unusual and/or ongoing circumstances, such as suspected or confirmed bioterrorism attacks, emergent disease outbreaks, or other threats to the nation's medical and/or public health systems.

Subscription to these publications requires online registration and acceptance of the CBN Terms of Use.

Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal. Its purpose is to serve as an international forum for debate and exploration of the key strategic, scientific, and operational issues posed by biological weapons and bioterrorism. The Journal provides multidisciplinary analyses and perspectives essential to the creation of strategies and programs that can diminish the threat of bioweapons.

The intended audiences for this journal are those professional communities that have strategic, scientific, or operational responsibilities critical to improving biosecurity, including medicine, public health, law, national security, bioscientific research, agriculture, food safety, and drug and vaccine development.

The Editors encourage submissions to the Journal from professionals in these fields and others who have the responsibility or opportunity to improve biosecurity. Please review the Information for Contributors on the Journal's website. 

Please visit the Journal's website to subscribe.

  
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You may post a link without requesting our permission, as long as the text that appears on your site is limited to the website name, “Center for Biosecurity of UPMC,” or to the title of an article that appears on our site. If listing the title of an article, please include the author’s name (first initial, last name), the Center for Biosecurity of UPMC as publisher, and the URL, which may be written out or added as a hyperlink, as demonstrated in the example below.

Example: HHS Awards $132.5 Million for H5N1 Influenza Vaccine Development,
A. Chamberlain, Center for Biosecurity of UPMC.

Links from third-party websites to the Center for Biosecurity website must not contain distasteful or offensive content, must not imply an endorsement by the Center for Biosecurity of UPMC, and must not knowingly present false or misleading information to the user.

At the bottom of this page, you will find an icon that can be used if you wish to include it on your site. Simply copy and paste it as desired.

Note: This statement of permission does NOT apply to articles from the journal, Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science, which is published by Mary Ann Leibert, Inc. and posted on the website http://www.liebertonline.com/loi/bsp.

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Once you have set up your news reader, subscribe to the Biosecurity Briefing RSS by copying the URL of our XML page into your reader. Follow the directions of your specific reader for setting up a new feed.

 Biosecurity Briefing XML: http://www.upmc-cbn.org/bin/o/p/biosecurity_briefing_-_center_for_biosecurity_of_upmc.xml

If you wish to include Biosecurity Briefing on your website, you may do so as long as you display the included feed title and summary in your display.
 

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The Center for Biosecurity of UPMC does not and will not rent, sell, or disclose a subscriber's personally identifiable information to third parties unless required to do so by law.