National Centre for Biosecurity

Biosecurity News - Issue 30

18 September 2009

Program News
Conferences, Seminars and Journal Issues
Special Coverage: H1N1 Influenza A
News Articles

HIV
Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases

Biological Weapons
Biosecurity Policy and Ethics
Global Health Governance and Disease Control

Program News

The University of Sydney Biosecurity Program (USBP) has awarded research grants for two projects:

Securitisation and Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis: Global and Australian Perspectives

Investigators: Dr James Gillespie (Principal), School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine; and Mr Joel Negin, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine.

Assessment of the Health Risks of a West Nile Virus Outbreak in Australia and the Optimal Surveillance for Mitigating these Risks

Investigators: Dr Marta Hernandez-Jover (Principal), Department of Farm Animal and Veterinary Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Science; Professor Michael Ward, Department of Farm Animal and Veterinary Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Science; and Professor Tom Kompas, Australian Centre for Biosecurity and Environmental Economics, ANU.

Congratulations to Dr Gillespie and Dr Hernandez-Jover and their colleagues.

The USBP intends to issue another Call for Biosecurity Project Proposals early next year.

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ANU Associate Professor Thomas Faunce, one of the founders of the National Centre for Biosecurity, has been awarded an ARC Future Fellowship for his project Fostering Safe Nanotechnology Research Focused on Critical Public Health Problems. The project builds upon Faunce’s unique interdisciplinary research and collaborations to develop an innovative framework for improving occupational health and safety standards of nanotechnology research at the ANU and fostering its focus on critical public health problems such as biosecurity, food and water safety, pollution control and equitable access to health technologies.

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Reminder: the National Centre for Biosecurity will hold the 3rd Annual Biosecurity Symposium on 1 – 2 February 2010 and has called for proposals for presentations addressing the theme ‘Global Health Security’. The deadline for abstracts is 31 October 2009. More information

Information on registration will be circulated in October.

Kind regards,

Alexis

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Conferences, Seminars and Journal Issues

The Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) International Symposium and Workshop is taking place from 12 – 14 April 2010 in Melbourne, Australia. The theme for the Symposium and Workshop isIntegrating Science and Managementand the deadline for abstracts is 9 November 2009. More information

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Previous Announcements

Global Biosecurity 2010: safeguarding agriculture and the environment in Brisbane, Australia. Abstracts: 31 July 2009. Conference: 28 February – 3 March 2010. More information
The International Society for Infectious Diseases is organising the 14th International Congress on Infectious Diseases (ICID) in Miami, Florida, USA, on 9 – 12 March 2010. The deadline for abstracts is 1 November 2009. More information
The 2010 International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases will be held 11 – 14 July 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. More information
US Department of State’s Biosecurity Engagement Program provides funding for travel to biosecurity-related conferences. More information

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Special Coverage - H1N1

WHO

‘Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 - update 65’ (11 September 2009)
‘Weekly update – virological surveillance data’ (11 September 2009)
‘Measures in school settings’ (11 September 2009)

CIDRAP

CIDRAP (Center for Disease Research and Policy) has a comprehensive H1N1 information site that is updated frequently: ‘Novel H1N1 influenza (swine flu)’.