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3rd EMBL/EMBO Joint Conference 2002 |
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Abstracts |
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Infectious diseases Challenges, threats and responsibilities |
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Advances in science and technology: risks, perspectives and responsibilities
Volker Beck, Advisor to the German Foreign Office, Berlin, Germany
Biological weapons: uses and abuses of infectious agents
Friedrich Frischknecht, Chair, Laboratoire de Biologie et Genetique du Paludisme, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Bioweapons and genetic engineering: the dual-use problem in the biomedical sciences
Jan van Aken, Sunshine Projekts, Hamburg, Germany
Consequences and responses
Hans-Georg Kräusslich, Chair, Medical Faculty, Heidelberg University, Germany
HIV and AIDS
Robin A. Weiss, University College, London, UK
Infections and Inequalities: examples from Haiti and Peru
Paul Farmer, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, USA
Infectious disease control in China: shift from public domination to the public and private partnership
Yiming Shao, National Center for AIDS Prevention and Control, Beijing, China
Knowledge: a prime weapon of defense against infectious diseases
Helena Maekelae, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
Neglected diseases, underfunded research, poor health interventions: can we change this reality?
Carlos Morel, Tropical Disease Research, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland
New challenges for research partnerships to alleviate disease burden and poverty
Marcel Tanner, Director, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland
North-South: the political economy of affliction
Rainer Sauerborn, Chair, Medical Faculty, Heidelberg University, Germany
Past problems and future opportunities for malaria and dengue control
Janet Hemingway, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK
Responding to unmet medical and control needs: past experiences and future opportunities
Robert Ridley, Product Research and Development, TDR, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland
The barriers to the production of new antibiotics
Peter N. Goodfellow, GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals, Essex, UK
The big killers: past, present and future
Michel Glauser, Chair, Medical Faculty, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
The economic divide: politics, research and control of TB in the developing world
Paul van Helden, Stellenbosch University Tygerberg, South Africa
The embodiment of inequality: political anthropology of AIDS in southern Africa
Didier Fassin, School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences [EHESS], University of Paris North/Inserm, France
The gaps: wealth, life expectancy, public health infrastructure and the big global killers
Laurie Garrett, writer and journalist, Newsday, New York, USA
The role of the 'Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention' in combating infectious disease
John Walker, Arms Control and Disarmament Research Unit, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London, UK |
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