Samuel
Bozzette (B.S., Georgetown University; M.D., University
of Rochester; Ph.D., RAND Graduate School of Policy Studies) is senior natural
scientist at the RAND Corporation, and adjunct professor of medicine and of international
relations at UC San Diego. He is board-certified
in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, and is a fellow of the American
College of Physicians and the Infectious Diseases Society of America. He is a
member
of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American
Physicians, and the Pacific Council on International Policy. He has a strong
record of clinical, translational, outcomes, and health economics research, resulting
in over 150 publications (including more than 20 in the New England Journal
of
Medicine and Journal of the American Medical Association) that
have been cited
by more than 5,000 other publications. Many of these studies significantly
changed clinical practice or policy, as did his seminal work in modeling of potential
bioterrorist
attacks.
Dr Bozzette has served in the leadership of collaborative groups such as
the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (where he was head of the Opportunistic Infections
and later the Outcomes working groups) and has been a principal investigator
for many large multicenter clinical trials and outcomes research projects such
as the nationally representative HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study. He
founded an academic Division of Health Services Research in San Diego, headed
a Center for Research in Patient-Oriented Care, and directed the VA's
national Quality Improvement Research Initiative in HIV as well as sites or
cores for the Southern California Evidence Based Practice Center and the Center
for the Study of Provider Behavior, the San Diego Center for Patient Safety,
and the UCSD Center for AIDS Research.
Bozzette is involved in clinical teaching
and teaching of research methods. He has served on many national
committees, including the DHHS Committee on Clinical Practices for HIV Care,
the VA National Clinical
Guidelines Panel, and Institute of Medicine's Committee on the Ryan
White CARE Act (Data for Research Allocations, Planning, and Evaluation),
and the Committee
on HIV Prevention for Injection Drug Users in High-risk Countries. He has
been an advisor to the pharmaceutical industry, the Centers for Disease Control,
the Food and Drug Administration, and research centers and funders.
Raymond
Clark is a research fellow and program manager for security studies and training at the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. Clark develops and manages diverse research, outreach, and training programs in biosecurity, national security, homeland security and health diplomacy. A former postdoctoral scholar in molecular cardiology at UC San Diego, Raymond is also a founding (former) board member of the National Postdoctoral Association and an expert on domestic S&T workforce policies. Clark works with faculty and research staff throughout the UC system to build bridges between research, policy and practice. An important part of this outreach effort is to build interest in and promote participation by young scholars (postdocs and graduate students) in policy-related projects and events
Peter
Cowhey holds a joint appointment as the UC San Diego associate vice chancellor for international affairs and the dean of the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. and is a
past director of IGCC. His major fields of research are international political
economy,
comparative
foreign policy, and international relations theory. In 1994, Cowhey took
leave from UC San Diego to join the Federal Communications Commission. In
1997, he became the chief of the international bureau of the FCC, where he
was in charge of all policy and licensing for international telecommunications
services, including all satellite issues and licensing for the FCC. Prior
to becoming bureau chief he was the commission's senior counselor for International
Economic and Competition Policy.
Cowhey's current research includes the political determinants of foreign
policy, the reorganization of the global communications and information
industries, and the future of foreign trade and investment rules in the
Pacific Rim. His extensive research and writings on international telecommunications
markets and regulation have been supported by such research institutes
as the World Bank, the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Enterprise
Institute, the Brookings Institution, the Markle Foundation, and the Twentieth-Century
Fund. His books include The Problems of Plenty: Energy Policy and International
Politics; When Countries Talk: International Trade in Telecommunications
Services (with J. Aronson); Managing the World Economy: The Consequences
of Corporate Alliances (with J. Aronson); and Structure and Policy
in Japan and United States (co-edited with Mathew McCubbins).
Gerald Epstein is senior fellow for science and security in the CSIS Homeland Security Program, where he is working on issues including reducing and countering biological weapons threats; bridging the scientific research and national security communities; and examining the role of technology in homeland security. He is also an adjunct professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. Previously, Epstein was with the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), on assignment to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Advanced Systems and Concepts Office. Prior to IDA, he served with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, most recently as assistant director for national security with a joint appointment as senior director for science and technology on the National Security Council staff. From 1983 to 1989 and again from 1991 until its demise in 1995, he was at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, where he worked on international security topics. From 1989 to 1991, he directed a project at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government on the relationship between civil and military technologies, and he has served as visiting lecturer in public and international affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School. A fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the editorial board for the journal Biosecurity and Bioterrorism, he is a coauthor of Beyond Spinoff: Military and Commercial Technologies in a Changing World (Harvard Business School Press, 1992). He received S.B. degrees in physics and electrical engineering from MIT and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California at Berkeley.
Richard Feinberg is professor of international political economy at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at UC San Diego and director of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Study Center, dedicated to research, scholarly exchange and public education on subjects of interest to APEC member countries. He is an authority on U.S. foreign policy, multilateral institutions (IMF, World Bank, NAFTA) and summitry (APEC, Summitry in the Americas, G-8). He is an expert on trade and investment, globalization, democratization and non-governmental organizations, and is the book reviewer for the Western Hemisphere section in Foreign Affairs magazine.
Feinberg has authored more than 150 articles and books. His book, Summitry in the Americas: A Progress Report, provides an inside analysis of how U.S. foreign policy is made. Other publications include The Intemperate Zone: The Third World Challenge to U.S. Foreign Policy and Subsidizing Success: The Export-Import Bank in the U.S. Economy.
Feinberg served as special assistant to President Clinton for National Security Affairs and senior director of the National Security Council's (NSC) Office of Inter-American Affairs. While at the NSC, he was the principal architect of the 1994 Summit of the Americas in Miami. He previously served as president of the Inter-American Dialogue, executive vice president of the Overseas Development Council, and has held positions on the policy planning staff of the U.S. Department of State and in the Office of International Affairs in the U.S. Treasury Department. Feinberg received his Ph.D. in international economics from Stanford University.
Joshua Fierer is the Michael and Marci Oxman Professor of Medicine at UC San Diego. He is also chief of the Infectious Diseases Section and director of the Microbiology Laboratory at the VA San Diego Healthcare System.
Dr. Fierer graduated from NYU School of Medicine and then did a residency in internal medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital, sandwiched around a two-year stint in the Epidemic Intelligence Service at CDC. He did his Infectious Diseases Fellowship training with Abraham Braude at the University of Pittsburgh and then at UCSD. He joined the faculty at UCSD School of Medicine as an assistant professor in 1971 and has remained at that institution ever since.
The focus of Fierer's research is host-pathogen interactions, emphasizing Salmonella enterica and Coccidioides immitis. Most recently, his research has focused on the role of innate immunity in resistance to Salmonella infections, and on the genetic basis of resistance to coccidioidomycosis, using murine infections as model systems. Resistance genes are being mapped in mice, and the interplay between these genes and cytokine responses to infection is under investigation. Dr. Fierer is a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, AAAS, and the American Academy of Microbiology.
Dr. Michael
Friedman is president and chief executive officer
of City of Hope, a cancer research and treatment institution dedicated to
innovation in basic and clinical biomedical research and delivery of compassionate,
world-class patient care. Dr. Friedman was formerly senior vice president
of research and development, medical and public policy, for Pharmacia Corporation.
In addition, he served as chief medical officer for biomedical preparedness
at the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America following the
events of September 11, 2001. Dr. Friedman had previously served as FDA Deputy
Commissioner and was later tapped by the Clinton administration to serve
as acting commissioner of the agency. He helped to streamline the FDA's
review and approval process and provided oversight of evaluations for drugs,
biologics, medical devices, and food ingredients.
In 1983, Dr. Friedman was chief of the Clinical Investigations Branch
of the Division of Cancer Treatment at the National Cancer Institute, and
went
on to become associate director of the division's cancer therapy evaluation
program. Before joining the NCI, Dr. Friedman spent nearly a decade at UC
San Francisco, serving as associate professor of medicine, eventually becoming
interim director of the Cancer Research Institute.
Dr. Friedman has received numerous commendations, including the Surgeon General's
Medallion in 1999. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from Tulane University and a Doctorate in Medicine from the University of Texas.
He completed postdoctoral training at Stanford University and the National
Cancer Institute, and is board certified in Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology.
Jerry
R. Gillespie, the director of the Western Institute for Food Safety
and Security, brings to his task expertise in several fields of veterinary
medicine, experience in building effective research teams, and enduring
interest in food safety and defense (protection from intentional or unintentional
harm to the food supply).
Dr. Gillespie earned his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Oklahoma
State University in 1961, spent a year in veterinary practice, and completed
his doctorate in comparative pathology at UC
Davis in 1965. After a postdoctoral fellowship with the Cardiovascular
Research Institute at the UC San Francisco Medical Center, he joined the
faculty of the UC Davis Schools of Veterinary Medicine and Medicine. Dr.
Gillespie remained at Davis from 1966 until 1985, becoming known for his
applications of heart-lung physiology to the developing field of equine
anesthesiology and exercise physiology. He has published more than 100
original scientific publications contributing internationally to a fuller
understanding of respiratory disease, equine exercise physiology, and food
safety.
In 1985, Dr. Gillespie moved to Kansas State University College of Veterinary
Medicine to become head of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital and Department
of Clinical Sciences. While at the college, Gillespie observed the strong
links between the state and its food agriculture industry and began to
promote research on food animals and food safety. He helped found the Kansas
State University Food Animal Health and Management Center in 1994. The
center's findings on the ecology of food-borne pathogens, the role of wildlife-livestock
interaction in spreading disease to people, and other food-related matters
have led to new recommendations for food safety strategies on the farm.
Dr. Gillespie served as first executive director of the Joint Institute
for Food Safety Research, the White House Office for Science and
Technology, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and U.S. Department
of Health and Human
Services. From 2000 until 2002, he and the institute brought together 20
federal
agencies conducting food safety research and laid the groundwork for further
collaborations with state agencies, private industry groups, and international
partners.
Professional service contributions encompass several national and international
organizations, including the American Veterinary Medical Association, the
Academy of Veterinary Cardiology, the American College of Veterinary Anesthesiologists,
and numerous equine groups. He has also led numerous professional committees
and task forces related to food safety and veterinary education.
Dr. Gillespie's goals for the Western Institute for Food Safety and Security include fostering timely food safety and defense research; applying new knowledge to both plant- and animal-based food products; responding to the public and food industries; and promoting the scientific scrutiny of issues throughout the food-production continuum— from the farm environment to the consumer—that will assure the highest international standards of food safety and quality.
Michele
Ginsberg is the chief of the division of Community Epidemiology
for the HHSA San Diego County. Community Epidemiology conducts disease
surveillance, investigation, and intervention on communicable diseases,
emerging infectious diseases, and intentional health threats.
Dr. Ginsberg is an adjunct clinical professor in the departments of Medicine and Family Medicine and adjunct professor in the San Diego State School of Public Health. Dr. Ginsberg has conducted investigations of AIDS/ HIV epidemiology and transmission in diverse populations, Hepatitis A in Mexican-American youth, prevalence of lead poisoning in homeless children, and factors influencing use of health care.
Miles Kahleris Rohr Professor of Pacific International Relations at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies and professor of political science at UC San Diego. From 2001 to 2005, he served as interim director and founding director of the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS) at UC San Diego.
Recent publications include Territoriality and Conflict in an Era of Globalization (co-edited with Barbara Walter, Cambridge University Press, 2006); Governance in a Global Economy (co-edited with David Lake, Princeton University Press, 2003) and Leadership Selection in the Major Multilaterals (Institute for International Economics, 2001). Current research interests include international institutions and global governance, the evolution of the nation-state, multilateral strategies toward failed states, and the political economy of international finance. He directs the research project on Rebuilding Political Authority in States at Risk at UC San Diego, supported by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Kahler was Senior Fellow in International Political Economy at the Council on Foreign Relations from 1994 to 1996. He is a member of the editorial board of International Organization and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Lawrence D. Kerr is the senior bioadvisor to the director of the National Counterproliferation Center (NCPC) within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). Before joining the ODNI in April 2006, he was director for biodefense policy with the White House Homeland Security Council in the Executive Office of the President (EOP). He has served as assistant director for homeland security for the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) within EOP. Prior to this position, he served as director of bioterrorism, research, and development for the Office of Homeland Security (OHS) in the EOP.
Before joining OHS, Kerr was a National Institutes of Health (NIH) agency representative to the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) in the OSTP. Dr. Kerr joined the Life Sciences division of OSTP in January 2001. He came from his position as chief of transplantation, Transplantation and Immunology Branch at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He is also adjunct professor of microbiology and immunology at Georgetown University Medical Center.
As an assistant professor in Microbiology and Immunology at Vanderbilt School of Medicine, Dr. Kerr ran a basic science laboratory devoted to the study of the transcriptional regulation of gene products involved in HIV replication and breast cancer development. He lectures at the national and international levels and has received awards for teaching excellence. He is the author of more than 50 peer-reviewed articles, reviews and book chapters. He received his Ph.D. from the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
Michael Kleeman is a senior fellow at IGCC focusing on preparedness and critical infrastructure issues. He has worked with the intelligence community on information sharing procedures and technologies, and is currently working with the State Office of Homeland Security on senior elected official training and preparedness. He serves as the national chair of strategy for the American Red Cross focusing on community preparedness and large- scale organization coordination.
For more than 30 years Kleeman has been involved in the technology industry in engineering, planning, management and advisory roles. He has also worked with a number of start-up firms and been an executive manager in both the consulting and technology industry. Formerly a vice president at the Boston Consulting Group, director at Arthur D. Little, and executive at Sprint, Kleeman has been involved with numerous technology companies in North America as advisor and executive. He has most recently served as the co-founder, vice president and chief technical officer of Cometa Networks, a nationwide 802.11 firm, and before that Aerie Networks, a U.S. nationwide long- distance fiber optic carrier and was also the founding CTO of Global Telesystems Group.
Kleeman holds an M.A. from the Claremont Graduate School. He serves a on the boards of Equal Access, a not-for-profit providing digital satellite radio services to developing nations, and the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito. He is also on the advisory council for the Comnexus San Diego. Previously he was a visiting fellow at the University of California's Berkeley Roundtable on International Economics, a fellow of the BIOS Institute, a firm specializing in Complex Adaptive Systems, and served on the Board of Science Foundation Ireland.
Dr. Nicole
Lurie is
senior natural scientist and the Paul O'Neill Alcoa Professor of Health
Policy at the RAND Corporation. She is acting co-director of RAND's Center
for Domestic and International Health Security, with responsibility for public
health. Prior to that, she had a long affiliation with the University of Minnesota
and Hennepin County Medical Center, where she was professor of medicine and
public health, and most recently, medical advisor to the commissioner at the
Minnesota Department of Health. From 1998–2001, she took a leave of absence
to serve as principal deputy assistant secretary of health in the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services. Among her many responsibilities, she had supervisory
responsibility for the Office of Emergency Preparedness and for the development
of the pandemic influenza plan. Dr. Lurie has a long history in the health
services research field, primarily in the areas of access to and quality of
care, managed care, mental health, prevention, and health disparities.
Dr. Lurie has worked extensively on issues related
to the public health infrastructure and public health preparedness. She led
a study to assess preparedness of California's public health infrastructure
and to estimate gaps. In addition, she co-directs RAND's work with
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to develop and test methods
for assessing various components of public health preparedness.
Dr. Lurie attended college and medical school at the University of Pennsylvania,
and completed her residency and MSPH at UCLA, where she was also a Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar. She serves as senior editor for Health
Services Research and has served on editorial boards and as a reviewer
for numerous journals. She has served on the council and was president of
the Society of General Internal Medicine, is currently on the board of directors
for the Academy of Health Services Research, and has served on multiple other
national committees. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the
AHSR Young Investigator Award, the Nellie Westerman Prize for Research in
Ethics, the Heroine in Health Care Award, and is a member of the Institute
of Medicine.
Craig
McIntosh is an assistant professor of economics at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at UC San Diego. He is a development economist whose work focuses on program evaluation. His main research interest is the design of institutions which promote the provision of financial services to micro-entrepreneurs. He has conducted field evaluations of innovations in microfinance in Central America and East Africa, and is currently working on projects analyzing the impact of credit bureaus in Guatemala and the introduction of mobile telephony in rural Rwanda.
McIntosh joined the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at UCSD in 2003. He has done aid work in Somalia with the International Rescue Committee, and spent a year on a Fulbright grant as Research Director at FINCA/Uganda, a major microfinance lender. McIntosh received his Ph.D. in agricultural economics from UC Berkeley.
Judge Margaret McKeown was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit by President Clinton and was confirmed by the United States Senate in 1998.
Judge McKeown was
a White House fellow in 1980–1981, serving as special assistant to
the Secretary of the Interior and special assistant at the White House. In
1993, she served
as a Japan Society Leadership fellow. After law school, Judge McKeown joined
the law firm of Perkins Coie and was a partner in the Seattle and Washington,
D.C. offices before joining the bench. Her practice focused on complex litigation,
intellectual property, antitrust and trade regulation. The Seattle-King County
Bar Association honored her with its Outstanding Lawyer of the Year Award
and she was named by the National Law Journal as one of the
"50 Most Influential Women Lawyers"in the United States. She has
received a number of other awards, including the University of Wyoming A&S
Outstanding Alumna, the Georgetown University Law Center Outstanding Alumnae
Award, the
Outstanding Mentor Award from Big Sisters; and the Girl Scouts "Cool
Women"
award.
Judge McKeown serves on the Judicial Conference of the United States Codes
of Conduct Committee. She is a member of the ABA Commission for Revision
of the Model Judicial Code, the American Law Institute, the Advisory Board
of the American Judicature Society, the Welsh chapter of the American Inns
of Court, and is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation. She previously
served as president of the Federal Bar Association of the Western District
of Washington,
a lawyer representative to the Judicial Conference of the Ninth Circuit,
a member of the Ninth Circuit Gender Bias Task Force, co-president of Washington
Women Lawyers, a member of the American Bar Association House of Delegates,
and a trustee of the Seattle-King County Bar Association.
Judge McKeown is an adjunct professor at the University of San Diego Law
School. A frequent participant in legal seminars on litigation, computer
law, and intellectual property, she is widely published in the computer
and trade secrets area and is co-author of "Trial Tactics in
Trade Secret Litigation," Intellectual Property Counseling and
Litigation (Matthew
Bender) and "The Promises of a New World Information Order,"The
Knowledge Economy (Aspen Institute). She is also an author of Business
and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts (West Group).
Judge McKeown has been active in community and civic affairs and currently
serves on the national board of Volunteers of America. She served for many
years on the national board of the Girl Scouts. She is the past
chair of the White House Fellows Foundation.
Judge McKeown attended the University of Madrid and
graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Wyoming with a B.A. in 1972
and from Georgetown University Law Center with a J.D. in 1975. She received
an honorary doctorate from Georgetown University in 2005.
Michael Sicilia is
public affairs manager with the California Homeland Security Exercise
and Evaluation
Program. Prior to that he was Deputy Director of Communications for California
Governor Gray Davis, 1999–2003. Among his accomplishments, he oversaw
the redesign of California’s award-winning web portal, MyCalifornia.
He helped devise the communications strategy for the Y2K efforts and
was interim spokesperson for the Department of Water Resources, charged
with purchasing power for near-bankrupt utilities during California’s
energy crisis. He was the governor’s liaison the State Joint Information
Center during the devastating Southern California wildfires of 2003.
An award-winning broadcast journalist, from 1997–99, Sicilia was
state capitol reporter for the California Report, heard on NPR stations
statewide. He also covered the Sacramento region for KCBS-AM, San Francisco
and KFBK-AM, Sacramento. Among the highlights of his Sacramento career
was the coverage of the trial of convicted Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski
for Westwood One radio network.
Sicilia won several Southern California Golden Mike Awards for his spot
news coverage of the Los Angeles riots, as well as political and documentary
reporting for station KCSN-FM, Northridge. He was honored by the Associated
Press and the Radio and Television News Director’s Association
for his coverage of the Polly Klaas abduction case for KSRO-AM, Santa
Rosa. He won a Society of Professional Journalists Award for his reporting
on the O. J. Simpson murder trial for radio station KFBK-AM, Sacramento.
Sicilia was trained in journalism at California State University
Northridge where he won the prestigious Associated Press Clete Roberts
Scholarship and the William Randolph Hearst Scholarship.
Samuel
Stanley is the Vice Chancellor for Research and a Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine and in the Department of Molecular Microbiology at Washington University. He is the Principle Investigator and Director of the multi-institutional Midwest Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research (MRCE).
Dr. Stanley received a B.A. from the University of Chicago, and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He joined the faculty of Washington University School of Medicine in 1987, and has been involved in both basic science research in the Departments of Medicine and Molecular Microbiology, and patient care at Barnes Jewish Hospital. Dr. Stanley’s research focuses on the interactions between parasitic and bacterial pathogens and the human host, with a special emphasis on innate immunity to gut pathogens. He also has a long-standing interest in vaccine development, and the immunogenetics of vaccine responses. He is a former Pfizer Post-Doctoral Fellow, a recipient of a Research Career Development Award from NIH, was on the NIH Eukaryotic Pathogenesis Study Section and was a Burroughs Wellcome Scholar in Molecular Parasitology. Dr. Stanley has recently been named an Ambassador in Research!America’s Paul G. Rogers Society for Global Health Research.
Prior to serving as the manager of emergency services at UC San Diego, Phillip van Saun was an assistant chief in the emergency operations section of the California Governors Office of Emergency Services. He has served in the field of crisis response since 1987 when he was a Marine assigned to the White House emergency response mission. Following military service, van Saun served as a consultant to the White House Military Office, providing emergency response training to White House support personnel. In 2003 he served as an advisor during the evacuation of American oil company employees in Venezuela and in 2002 as a trainer and evaluator to the security and safety elements of the Panama Canal Authority.
In 1990 van Saun was awarded the Presidential Service Award by President George H. W. Bush for his service to the White House. He is a graduate of the National Interagency crisis communications program, the White House Military Office’s executive support program and the executive seminar in crisis management at Harvard University.
Jeffrey
Wasserman, Ph.D., is a senior policy researcher at RAND. Wasserman
has more than 25 years of experience directing large and complex health
services research projects in the areas of public health preparedness,
health care financing, and health promotion and disease prevention. He
currently serves as principal investigator or co-principal investigator
on projects related to evaluating the public health system's ability
to prepare for, and respond to, infectious disease outbreaks (including
bioterrorist attacks); measuring the health impact in developing countries
of additional investments in diagnostic technologies; and assessing the
impact of health reform options in the United States. Recently, Wasserman
led projects on financing the health services safety net and on how the
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs could modify its budget allocation
mechanism to better serve the health care needs of veterans.
Wasserman has published numerous papers and technical reports, as well
as co-authored three books (The Costs of Poor Health Habits, Harvard University
Press;
Tobacco Control Laws: Implementation and Enforcement, RAND; and Combating
Teen Smoking: Research and Policy Findings, University of Michigan
Press). Wasserman received his doctorate in public policy analysis from
the
RAND Graduate School for Policy Studies, where he was a Pew Health Policy
Fellow.
Sanford L. Weiner is a research associate at the Security Studies Program (SSP) in MIT's Center for International Studies. He has written about organizational change and innovation in both military and public health agencies. He is now studying incentives for risk assessment and implementation among agencies responsible for biosecurity, including the policymaking process for pandemic flu. He is also working with Harvey Sapolsky on a study of innovation in the Defense Department. He is the course director for the SPP summer Professional Courses on "Promoting Innovation: The Dynamics of Technology and Organizations," and "Combating Bioterrorism/ Pandemics: Implementing Policies for Biosecurity."
Weiner has previously studied the development of the JSTARS radar plane for the Air Force, as well as policymaking on many health and environmental risks. He has examined the role of the Centers for Disease Control in both emerging infectious diseases (toxic shock syndrome, swine flu) and toxic substances (lead). He has also written an analysis of the phase out of CFCs for the protection of the ozone layer. Before MIT he worked at the Health Policy Center at Brandeis, and the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He has also been a researcher at Queen Mary's College, University of London.
Dean
Wilkening directs the science program at the Center for International
Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. He holds a Ph.D. in physics
from Harvard University and spent thirteen years at the RAND Corporation
prior to coming to Stanford in 1996. His major research interests have
been nuclear
strategy
and policy, arms control, the proliferation of nuclear, biological, and
chemical weapons, ballistic missile defense, and conventional force modernization.
His
most recent research focuses on ballistic missile defense and biological
terrorism. His work on missile defense focuses on the broad strategic and
political implications
of deploying national and theater missile defenses, in particular, the
impact of theater missile defense in Northeast Asia, and the technical
feasibility
of boost-phase interceptors for national and theater missile defense. His
work on biological weapons focuses on understanding the scientific and
technical
uncertainties associated with predicting the outcome of hypothetical airborne
biological weapon attacks, with the aim of devising more effective civil
defenses, and a reanalysis of the accidental anthrax release in 1979 from
a Russian military
compound in Sverdlovsk with the aim of improving our understanding of the
human effects of inhalation anthrax.
After graduating from California State University at Northridge with
a B.A. in biology, and from University of Stockholm with a Filosofie Kandidat
in organic chemistry, Dr. Raymond Zilinskas worked as a
clinical microbiologist for sixteen years, then commenced graduate studies
at the
University of Southern California. His dissertation addressed policy issues
generated
by recombinant DNA research, including the applicability of genetic engineering
techniques for military and terrorist purposes. After earning a Ph.D.,
Dr. Zilinskas
worked at the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment (1981–1982), United
Nations Industrial Development Organization (1982–1986), and University
of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (UMBI) (1987–1998). In addition, he
was an adjunct associate professor at the Department of International Health,
School of
Hygiene and Public
Health, Johns Hopkins University, until 1999.
In 1993, Dr. Zilinskas was appointed William Foster Fellow at the U.S.
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA), where he worked on biological
and toxin warfare issues. In 1994, ACDA seconded Dr. Zilinskas to the United
Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM), where he worked as a biological analyst
for seven months. He participated in two biological warfare-related inspections
in Iraq (June and October 1994) encompassing 61 biological research and
production facilities. He set up a database containing data about key dual-use
biological equipment in Iraq and developed a protocol for UNSCOM's ongoing
monitoring and verification program in the biological field.
After the fellowship, Dr. Zilinskas returned to the UMBI and Johns Hopkins
University. In addition, he continued to serve as a long-term consultant
to ACDA (now part of the U.S. Department of State), for which he carried
out studies on Cuban allegations of U.S. biological attacks against its
people, animals, and plants; and investigations carried out by the United
Nations of chemical warfare in Southeast Asia and the Arabian Gulf region.
Dr. Zilinskas also is a consultant to the U.S. Department of Defense.
In September 1998, Dr. Zilinskas was appointed senior scientist at the
Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS), Monterey Institute of International
Studies. In 2002, he became director of the Chemical
and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Program at the CNS. His research
focuses on achieving effective biological arms control, assessing the proliferation
potential of the former Soviet Union's biological warfare program,
and meeting the threat of bioterrorism. Dr. Zilinskas' book Biological
Warfare: Modern Offense and Defense, a definitive account of how modern
biotechnology has qualitatively changed developments related to biological
weapons and defense, was published in 1999. His co-edited book Encyclopedia
of Bioterrorism Defense was
published by Wiley in 2005, and currently he is writing a book on
the former Soviet Union's biological warfare program, including its
history, organization, accomplishments, and proliferation potential, which
will be published in 2008 by Harvard University Press.
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Gerald Epstein is senior fellow for science and security in the CSIS Homeland Security Program, where he is working on issues including reducing and countering biological weapons threats; bridging the scientific research and national security communities; and examining the role of technology in homeland security. He is also an adjunct professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. Previously, Epstein was with the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), on assignment to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Advanced Systems and Concepts Office. Prior to IDA, he served with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, most recently as assistant director for national security with a joint appointment as senior director for science and technology on the National Security Council staff. From 1983 to 1989 and again from 1991 until its demise in 1995, he was at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, where he worked on international security topics. From 1989 to 1991, he directed a project at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government on the relationship between civil and military technologies, and he has served as visiting lecturer in public and international affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School. A fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the editorial board for the journal Biosecurity and Bioterrorism, he is a coauthor of Beyond Spinoff: Military and Commercial Technologies in a Changing World (Harvard Business School Press, 1992). He received S.B. degrees in physics and electrical engineering from MIT and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California at Berkeley.
