The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is partnering with the American Biological Safety Association (ABSA) to host its first symposium, Animal Production & Protection: Challenges, Risks, and Best Practices in Baltimore, Maryland. The focus of this first symposium will be on animal (livestock, aquaculture, and wildlife) health issues Read More »
Calendar of Events
February 4, 2011
3rd International Meeting on Emerging Diseases and Surveillance (IMED 2011)
The Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED), is pleased to invite you to the IMED 2011, following highly successful meetings in 2007 and 2009. Along with our co-sponsors, the Wildlife Conservation Society, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), the European Commission, and the European Society of Read More »
January 1, 1970
U.S.-Russia Scientific Forum for Biomedical and Behavioral Research
The Forum, a public-private partnership of the FNIH, was created as a result of the 2009 U.S.– Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission and established in part from a $1.27 million gift from founding partner, Eli Lilly and Company. Launched in partnership with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Institute of Medicine (IOM), the Russian Academy Read More »
2012 Public Health Preparedness Summit
Regroup, Refocus, Refresh: Sustaining Preparedness in an Economic Crisis Over the past 10 years, significant measures have been taken to build and sustain the public health capability and capacity to plan for and respond to disasters and other emergencies. Federal funding and lessons learned after the events of September 11, 2001 and Hurricane Katrina, have Read More »
Documentary: The Anthrax Diaries
Slava Paperno, director of the Russian Language Program and Kathleen Vogel, associate professor, Science & Technology Studies, will present “The Anthrax Diaries,” a 30-minute documentary that explores the social and ethical context of weapon-making. The film explores the research and development of biological weapons in the Soviet Union. It focuses in particular on some of Read More »
