| Home > Events > Biosafety and Biorisks Agenda Day 1 | Day 2 Thursday, March 3, 2005 Welcome to Lyon and Introduction to Day 2
Gérard Collomb, Mayor of Lyon (invited)
Gigi Kwik Gronvall, Ph.D., Fellow, Center for Biosecurity of UPMC Leading with Safety: Shaping Culture and Behaviors: Beyond addressing physical hazards in the workplace, successful safety efforts improve the human dimensions of safety: attitude and behavior. How can managers of laboratories create a safety culture in their workplace?
James Grant, Business Development Manager for Behavioral Science Technology, Inc, a consulting firm specializing in behaviour-based performance improvement Training for Crisis Management Dilemmas in Europe: The use of scenario-based training to prepare for political and strategic dilemmas in Europe, in the event of a bioterrorism attack or a naturally occurring outbreak, including distributing scarce resources.
Jesper Grönvall, M.S., Senior Analyst, CRISMART, Swedish National Defense College Panel on the Communication of Scientific Information
Moderated by Gigi Kwik Gronvall, Ph.D., Fellow, Center for Biosecurity of UPMC Anthrax-EuroNet: A discussion of the EC-sponsored Anthrax-EuroNet project, which aims to strengthen networking activities among academia, industry, policymakers, and the public health sector to harmonize best research practices for development of anti-anthrax prophylaxes, to set priorities and response plans to counter anthrax attacks and hoaxes, and to boost competitive research in Europe on other high-risk agents.
Dr. Amanda Ozin, Project Manager of Anthrax EuroNet, based in the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, Germany Global Digital Awareness of Disease Outbreaks—The Experience of Pro-MED: Since 1994, ProMED-mail has served the international infectious disease community through the rapid global dissemination of outbreak information. What insights can be gained for the future of international disease surveillance?
Marjorie Pollack, M.D., Associate Editor, Epidemiological and Surveillance Moderator,and Associate Editor for Subregional Programs for ProMED-mail, a program of the International Society of Infectious Diseases The Technical Foundation for Public Health Decisions: A discussion of the challenges of publishing good scientific data quickly—when political decisions are at stake.
Caroline Ash, Senior Editor, Science Magazine, Europe Early Warning Systems for Global Public Health: The Global Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN) is a multilingual application that employs a unique combination of leading-edge technologies to provide an early warning system for potentially serious public health events around the world. Its purpose is to disseminate information on events that may have international implications.
Abla Mawudeku, Manager, Global Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN), Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response, Public Health Agency of Canada Interpol and Bio-criminalization: Interpol is promoting a global effort to deal with the transnational threat of bioterrorism, by encouraging nations to make reforms. This discussion will address the progress and plans for the future of "biocriminalization."
Ronald K. Noble, J.D., Secretary General of Interpol Preparedness for Deliberate Epidemics: An overview of WHO activities to assist national preparedness for deliberate use of biological materials for harm, including a discussion of WHO guidance for public health response to biological and chemical weapons and WHO assistance for national threat assessments.
Dr. Ottorino Cosivi, Project Leader, Preparedness for Deliberate Epidemics, WHO Office in Lyon, Department of Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response (CSR) Health Security Cooperation in the European Union: Presentation of the EU Rapid Alert System, operational since 2002, which acts as a coordination mechanism for preparedness and response to biological and chemical agent attacks.
Germain Thinus, Project Leader of the Coordination Mechanism, European Commission The Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN): GOARN is a technical collaboration of existing institutions and networks that pool human and technical resources for the rapid identification, confirmation, and response to outbreaks of international importance. This talk will focus on its recent efforts to combat influenza.
Dr. May C. Chu, Technical Officer, Emerging and Dangerous Pathogens, Alert and Response Operations, CSR/CDS/WHO The New International Health Regulations: The final draft of the revised International Health Regulations will be presented to the World Health Assembly in May 2005. Mr. Byrne will discuss the new regulations to prepare for future epidemics.
David Byrne, Special Envoy to the World Health Organization Closing Remarks
Tara O'Toole, M.D., M.P.H., CEO and Director, Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
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