Biosecurity News - Issue 22
Contents
Conferences, Seminars and Journal Issues
The journal Public Health has a new issue (Volume 123, Issue 3) devoted to health governance, examining the role of law, regulation and policy in safeguarding the public’s health. Accessed here
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The Lancet Infectious Diseases and The Lancet are organising a conference on influenza in the Asia-Pacific region to be held in Qingdao, China, on August 21—23 2009. To coincide with the conference, they intend to publish an issue of The Lancet Infectious Diseases focusing on influenza. Readers are invited to submit Review, Personal View, or Reflection and Reaction commentary papers on the topic of influenza to appear in this issue. The closing date for submission of papers is May 7, 2009. More information.- - - - -
Previous Announcements
- The Consortium of Non-Traditional Security Studies in Asia (NTS-Asia)
invites applications for a 3-month Research Fellowship Programme, which
will commence in July 2009. Applications due: 13 April 2009.
More information - 3rd International Conference on Influenza Vaccines for the World.
Conference: 27-30 April 2009 in Cannes, France.
More information - Communicable Diseases Control (CDC) Conference. 4-6 May 2009 in
Canberra.
More information - US Department of State’s Biosecurity Engagement Program provides
funding for travel to biosecurity-related conferences.
More information
PhD Studentships
The Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL), a unit of the CSIRO at Geelong, is seeking a Biocontainment Microbiologist to join the Microbiological Security Group as a senior member. The position will be responsible for training, implementation of work practices, documentation of procedures and ensuring compliance with various regulatory requirements. In the role you will need to be able to respond effectively to situations of high priority to AAHL with proper regard to microbiological security and microbiological safety. Applications due 14 April 2009. More information.
- - - - -The Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics has advertised for an ARC-funded PhD scholarship to examine ethical and security issues associated with infectious disease. The PhD research project will examine “the nature and value of security and how the value of security should be balanced against other legitimate social aims in the context of naturally occurring epidemic disease.” Applicants should forward their CV and covering letter (highlighting area(s) of interest) to Dr Michael Selgelid by 3 April 2009. For more information, please contact: Michael.Selgelid@anu.edu.au
- - - - -In the context of the Wellcome Trust funded project “Building a Sustainable Capacity in Dual-Use Bioethics” two PhD studentships are available from October 2009 for three years that cover the cost of UK/EU PhD tuition fees and an annual average maintenance grant of £19,600.
The holder of one of the studentships will work under the supervision of Dr. Brian Rappert in the Department of Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Exeter. The holder of the second studentship – with a focus on the dual-use aspects of synthetic biology – will work under the supervision of Dr. Alexander Kelle in the Department of European Studies and Modern Languages at the University of Bath.
University of Exeter Applications:
Applicants are required to contact Brian Rappert (B.Rappert@ex.ac.uk; also Tel
+44 (0)1392 263353) with a short initial expression of their interest (no more
than 500 words) by the deadline. More
information.
University of Bath Applications:
Applicants are required to contact Alexander Kelle (A.Kelle@bath.ac.uk) with a
short initial expression of their interest (no more than 500 words) by the
deadline. Further information will be provided on request.
Deadline: 15 April 2009
(Back to Top)News Articles
Pandemic and Avian Influenza
'US
Government releases ‘Interim Guidance for Cargo Trucking Crews for the
Prevention of Pandemic Influenza'
24 March 2009
'Pandemic
Influenza: An Inconvenient Mutation'
20 March 2009
A
phylogenetic study of HPAI Virus in Africa
19 March 2009
'Stories
of an influenza pandemic'
14 March 2009
'Measurement of
Airborne Influenza Virus in a Hospital Emergency Department' (Clinical
Infectious Diseases, Iss. 48)
9 January 2009
HIV
New
Institute for HIV and TB, South Africa
27 March 2009
Review of
perspectives on the HIV/AIDS epidemic
26 March 2009
'Structural
barriers and human rights related to HIV prevention and treatment in Zimbabwe'
(Global Public Health
26 March 2009
BMJ on
condoms and HIV
25 March 2009
and commentary.
'WHO
revises upwards estimated number of TB deaths associated with HIV'
25 March 2009
and commentary.
Washington
DC now has a 'generalised and severe' HIV epidemic
16 March 2009
and comment
.
Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases
April volume of Emerging Infectious Disease (Volume 15, Issue 4)
Zimbabwe's
cholera epidemic slowing down
21 March 2009
'Trends in
Tuberculosis --- United States, 2008'
20 March 2009
'Researchers
Worldwide Rally to Help Scientist Exposed to Ebola'
18 March 2009
and comments
and follow-ups
Biological Weapons
'Biotechnology's
crossroads'
24 March 2009
Indonesian
Health Minister wary of foreign biological attack using Indonesian
viruses
21 March 2009
UN
developing a biological incident database
20 March 2009
'The
geneticist in the garage'
19 March 2009
'Countering
Terrorism: Biological Agents, Transportation Networks, and Energy
Systems.'
18 March 2009
US Government to
hold meeting on ‘personnel reliability issues’ pertaining to select
agent research
13 March 2009
'Science
groups counter WMD Panel’s prescription for stemming biological
threats'
13 March 2009
Biosecurity Policy and Ethics
'Pruning
the regulatory tree'
26 March 2009
and letters
in reply.
'The
new biofactories'
23 March 2009
'WHO
Considers Tightening Regulations for Shipping Biological Material'
18 March 2009
Review
of techniques for synthetic creation of engineered microbes
16 March 2009
Global Health Governance and Disease Control
'Reducing
greenhouse emissions could cut global disease burden by 25%'
16 March 2009
