Preparing for Bioemergencies

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Preparing for Bioemergencies
Seventh Symposium November 20, 2006 New Jersey
Universities Consortium for Homeland Security
Research

• Brendan McCluskey
• Executive Director
• Emergency Management and Occupational Health and
  Safety
• University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

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Today's problems cannot be solved with the same
thinking that created them. - Albert Einstein
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Preparing for Bioemergencies

• Since 2001, the federal government has spent over
  18 Billion on biodefense and related programs
• Strategy prevention and non-proliferation,
  mitigation, preparedness, response, recovery
• Terrorism, naturally-occurring incident, or
  unintended consequence?
• Scientists commenting on policy

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Panel Speakers

• Dr. Richard H. Ebright, Rutgers University
• Bioweapons-agents Research Biosafety,
  Biosecurity, and Dual-use Implications
• Dr. Laura H. Kahn, Princeton University
• An Overview of Princeton's Program on Science and
  Global Security Biodefense Activities
• Dr. Nancy D. Connell, UMDNJ
• The Biosafety Level 3 Laboratory At the
  Intersection of Research, Safety and Security