R&D Policies Related to Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases
Dec. 14-16, 2005
Boston, Massachusetts
Proceedings of the Trilateral Seminar on R&D Policies Related to Emerging and Re-emering Infectious Diseases
- Table of Contents, Preface, and Co-chairs' statement
- Executive Summary
- Presentations by Distinguished speakers
- Session I: Surveillance
- Session II: Modeling and Simulation
- Session III: Products and Technologies
- Session IV: Implementation of Effective Policies
- Appendices
Following are the agenda, participant lists for the seminar, in addition to sets of PowerPoint files presented by invited speakers and panelists linked as PDF and PowerPoint documents:
- Agenda
- Participant List
- Presentations by distinguished guest speakers:
- P. Frederick Sparling (keynote address)
- Joung Soon Kim (dinner address, December 15)
- Plenary Session I: Surveillance
- Plenary Session II: Modeling and Simulation
- Plenary Session III: Products and Technologies
- Plenary Session IV: Implementation of Effective Policies
These files are available for personal, instructional, and other fair uses. They must not be used for other purposes without the express, written permission of their authors.
Participants in this Trilateral Seminar included key scientists and policy makers from China, Korea, and the United States. They considered better ways to coordinate R&D and integrate R&D into policies affecting efforts to combat infectious diseases. Opportunities for international collaboration in the formulaion and implementation of effective policies were emphasized. Themes and issues under consideration included:
- National and international institutional structures to deal with emerging infectious diseases, including past successes, failures and lessons learned.
- Opportunities/limitations to common international agenda setting.
- Expediting the generation of new scientific knowledge and its translation into technlogical capacity and action.
- Science policies, including research, training and education.
- Accountability and transparency; security vs. openness.
Four functional topics during four restrospective plenary sessions were:
- Surveillance
- Modeling and Simulation
- Products and Technologies
- Implementation of Effective Policies