Public Policy and Biological Threats
Summer Training Workshop

July 31–August 9, 2009

A program of the UC Institute on
Global Conflict and Cooperation
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funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York

2009 Workshop Agenda


NOTE: All workshop sessions will be held in Social Science Building Room 104 (SSB104) unless otherwise noted.

Agenda is preliminary and subject to change. Please check back for updates.
Last updated July 31, 2009.

Friday, July 31

Fellows arrive all day

Eleanor Roosevelt College

6:00 p.m.–8:30pm

Reception–Estancia Hotel

 

Opening Talk: Preparedness and the Health Care System

 

Michael Friedman, City of Hope Medical Center

Saturday, August 1

9:00 a.m.–9:30 a.m.

Workshop Introduction

 

Sam Bozzette, UC San Diego/RAND

9:30 a.m.–10:00 a.m.

Threat Organisms and Their Classification

 

Sam Bozzette, UC San Diego/RAND

10:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m.

Basics of Bacterial Pathogenesis, Disease, and Treatment

 

Kit Pogliano, UC San Diego

12:15 p.m.–2:00 p.m.

Lunch

2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.

Basics of Viral Pathogenesis, Disease, and Treatment

 

Michael Oxman, UC San Diego

Sunday, August 2

9 a.m.–9:45 a.m.

Guide to Agencies involved in the U.S. National (Bio)Security Process

 

Raymond Clark, IGCC

10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Bioweapons, Bioterrorism and Biocrimes

 

Seth Carus, National Defense University

12:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m.

Lunch

2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.

Synthetic Biology

 

Michele Garfinkle, J. Craig Venter Institute

Dinner

Small group dinner with Michele Garfinkle

Monday, August 3

8:30 a.m.–10:30 a.m.

Weaponization of Bioorganisms

 

Arturo Casadevall, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

10:305 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Videoconference: Responses to the 2009 H1N1 Influenza Outbreak

 

Jon Andrus, Pan American Health Organization

12:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m.

Lunch

2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.

Agricultural Threats

 

Speaker TBD

Dinner

Small group dinner with Rohit Chitale and Les Lenert

Tuesday, August 4

9:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m.

Videoconference: Technological Approaches to Disease Surveillance

 

Les Lenert, US CDC

12:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m.

Lunch Session: Disease Intelligence and Surveillance

 

Rohit Chitale, US CDC

2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.

Current Research into the H1N1 Pandemic

 

Ann Keller, UC Berkeley

 

Theresa MacPhail, UC Berkeley (PPBT Alumna)

Wednesday, August 5

9:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m.

Biosecurity in an Era of Terrorism

 

Gigi Kwik-Gronvall, UPMC Center for Biosecurity

11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

Lunch

1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.

Biological Weapons Treaties and Conventions

 

Marie Chevrier, University of Texas at Dallas

3:15–:4:15 p.m.

General Discussion

Evening

Group activity (sea kayaking)

Thursday, August 6

9:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m.

Epidemiology

 

Michele Ginsberg, San Diego County Health and Human Services

12:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m.

Lunch Session: Public Health Infrastructure

 

Jeffrey Wasserman, RAND

4:00–5:00 p.m.

Biosecurity: Necessary Steps*

 

Adel Mahmoud, Princeton University

 

*Session held in the Center for Molecular Medicine East, Rm. 2047 in conjunction with Infectious Disease Rounds

Friday, August 7

9:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m.

Biodefense Product Development

 

Michael G. Kurilla, Office of Biodefense Research Affairs, NIH

10:45 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Response of the Biomedical Community

 

Michael Kurilla and Adel Mahmoud

12:15 a.m.–2:00 p.m.

Lunch

2:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m.

Disaster Preparedness

 

Michael Kleeman, UC San Diego/American Red Cross

 

Juliet K. Choi, American Red Cross

Saturday, August 8

9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Communications and the Media

 

Michael Sicilia, California Emergency Management Agency

 

Phillip Van Saun, UC San Diego

12:15 p.m.–2:00 p.m.

Lunch

2:00–4:00 p.m.

Federal Perspectives on Biothreats

 

Lawrence Kerr, Office of the Director of National Intelligence

6:00–8:00 p.m.

Closing Reception–Mandeville Suite

 

Sam Bozzette, closing remarks

Sunday, August 9

 

Fellows depart.

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