3rd Annual Biosecurity Symposium

The National Centre for Biosecurity plans to hold the 3rd Annual Biosecurity Symposium at the Australian National University, Canberra, from 1-2 February 2010 and invites proposals for presentations addressing the theme ‘Global Health Security’ in one or more of the following areas:

• Responding to infectious disease crises in Australia and the Asia-Pacific
• The epidemiology of public health and animal health emergencies
• The development and use of biological weapons by state and non-state actors
• Ethical dilemmas and security risks of research on pathogenic micro-organisms
• International law and domestic regulation
• Relevance and applications of new technologies to biosecurity challenges
• Ethical, social and cultural dimensions of biosecurity

Abstracts (200 words maximum) should be emailed to Jonathan Herington by 30 November 2009

Further information regarding abstract submission and registration will be posted here and through our mailing list when it is available.