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Op-Ed: Why One Health?

By Laura H. Kahn, M.D., M.P.P., General Internist and Research Scholar with the Program on Science and Global Security at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. One Health is a concept that seeks to integrate human, animal, and environmental health since all are inextricably linked. This concept is not new Read More »

July 5, 2011
| Filed under Europe, North America, International, and Public Health
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No Big Summit Needed for Achieving Biological Security: Key Diplomat

(GSN Daily News) WASHINGTON — The Biological Weapons Convention does not require a seminal event on par with the ongoing Global Nuclear Security Summit process in order to gain sufficient political attention from world leaders, according to the chairman of the treaty’s upcoming review conference (see GSN, June 20). (Jul. 1) – Paul van den Read More »

July 5, 2011
| Filed under Europe, North America, Biological Weapons, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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Obama to Name New Counterrorism Chief

(GSN Daily News) WASHINGTON — President Obama announced on Friday that he will nominate a new White House counterterrorism director (see GSN, June 10). Matthew Olsen will be named the director of the National Counterterrorism Center. He is currently the general counsel for the National Security Agency and principal legal adviser to the NSA director. Read More »

July 5, 2011
| Filed under North America and Policy & Initiatives
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Say Goodbye to Google Health

(Genome Web) In a blow to all your health-records-in-the-cloud dreams, Google said that on January 1, 2012 it will shut down its Google Health project, once celebrated as a major step in getting electronic health records (and subsequently shared genomic information) to mainstream use. TechCrunch has a video with Adam Bosworth, who created the project Read More »

June 29, 2011
| Filed under North America and Public Health
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Rinderpest, Scourge of Cattle, Is Vanquished

(New York Times) On Tuesday in a ceremony in Rome, the United Nations is officially declaring that for only the second time in history, a disease has been wiped off the face of the earth. The disease is rinderpest. Everyone has heard of smallpox. Very few have heard of the runner-up. That’s because rinderpest is Read More »