| Home > Events > 2000 National Symposium Overview The Second National Symposium on Medical and Public Health Response to Bioterrorism was held November 28-29, 2000, in Washington, DC, as a collaborative effort among the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies [now the Center for Biosecurity of UPMC], the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the Infectious Diseases Society of America. The symposium was intended to increase understanding of the threat of bioterrorism among national policy makers and medical and public health leaders. It also served as a platform for considering actions that the nation and its leaders might take to diminish the risk of bioterrorism and, should it occur, its potentially serious consequences. |
