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PROGRAM

New! Program now includes links to presentations, audio from all speakers and Q&A sessions, and video for select talks. Links are included in the program below.

8:40-9:00 AM	Registration, Coffee and Scones
9:00-9:15	Opening Remarks: Jonathan Zeitlin, Director of the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE), Professor of Sociology, Public Affairs, Political Science, and History Gilles Bousquet, Dean of the Division of International Studies Daryl Buss, Dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine Leslie Dierauf, Director of the USGS National Wildlife Health Center Audio
9:15-9:45	“Avian Influenza: How close are we to a pandemic?" Hon S. Ip, Ph.D., Virologist, USGS National Wildlife Health Center Presentation Audio
9:45-10:15	"Public Management Perspectives on Foreign Animal Diseases” Donald Moynihan, Ph.D., LaFollette School of Public Affairs, UW-Madison Presentation Audio
	Audio Q&A for morning session Video Video of morning session provided by Wisconsin Eye Public Affairs Network
10:15-10:30	Break
10:30-11:30	KEYNOTE: “DISEASE AS A NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT” Eric Noji, M.D., Senior Policy Advisor for Health and National Security for the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) in Washington, D.C. and formerly Associate Director for Bio-Emergency Preparedness and Response with the National Center for Infectious Diseases at the CDC in Atlanta, Georgia. Presentation Audio
	Audio Q&A with Dr. Noji Video Video of Dr. Noji's talk provided by Wisconsin Eye Public Affairs Network
11:30-12:30 PM	Lunch
12:30-1:00	“Emerging Disease Threats from Ecological Change” Jonathan Patz, M.D., M.P.H. WAGE Senior Fellow, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, Department of Population Health Sciences, UW-Madison Presentation Audio Q&A (audio)
1:00-1:30	“Global Wildlife Disease Monitoring: Does it exist?” F. Joshua Dein, VMD, MS, Project Leader, NBII Wildlife Disease Information Node Presentation Audio Q&A (audio)
1:30-1:45	Break
1:45-2:15	“Ready or Not: Preparedness at the Local Level” Mary Proctor, Ph.D., MPH, Program Director of the Southcentral Wisconsin Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Consortium Presentation Audio
2:15-2:45	"Responding to Animal Disease Outbreaks: How Do Local, State, and National Responses Fit Together?" Ty J. Vannieuwenhoven, DVM, MPH, DACVPM, Area Emergency Coordinator, MN and WI, USDA, APHIS, Veterinary Services Presentation Audio
2:45-3:15	"Pandemic Planning: The Needs of the Private Sector" Vicki Bier, Ph.D., Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, UW-Madison Presentation Audio
3:15-5:00	Discussion - Jonathan Patz, moderator Audio

WAGE and the Madison Committee on Foreign Relations (MCFR) also sponsored a dinner discussion in conjunction with the Global Biological Threats Symposium, April 6, 2006.

"Influenza: People, Pigs and Pandemics"
Chris Olsen, Professor of Public Health, School of Veterinary Medicine
University of Wisconsin-Madison

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Vicki Bier
Dr. Vicki Bier is a Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she has directed the Center for Human Performance and Risk Analysis (formerly the Center for Human Performance in Complex Systems) since 1995. She received a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983, and a B.S. in Mathematical Sciences from Stanford University in 1976. Dr. Bier’s current research interests focus on the application of decision analysis, risk analysis, game theory, and related methods to problems of security and critical infrastructure protection. Dr. Bier has served as a member of both the Radiation Advisory Committee and the Homeland Security Advisory Committee of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board. The Center for Human Performance and Risk Analysis is currently funded by the Army Research Office and the Department of Homeland Security, with research funding of around $1 million per year.

F. Joshua Dein
F. Joshua Dein, VMD, MS, is the Project Leader for the Wildlife Disease Information Node (WDIN) at the USGS National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, WI. WDIN is a component of the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII), a broad, collaborative program to provide increased access to data and information on the nation's biological resources. WDIN is also coordinating the development of a Wildlife Health Monitoring Network, which will be a common standardized platform for sharing of surveillance data among federal, state, private and international agencies. The National Avian Influenza Early Detection System is part of this Network. Dr. Dein also has been active in other informatics collaborations aimed at integrating multidisciplinary health data and information, such as the Canary Database and WildPro Multimedia.

Hon S. Ip
Dr. Hon S. Ip (B. Sc. Microbiology and Parasitology), M. Sc. (Zoology), Ph. D (Molecular Parasitology) has worked on diseases of wildlife for over twenty years. His research has ranged from studies in viruses of mollusks to parasitic protozoa to nematodes and trematodes as well as in mammalian cardiac development, as well as in the area of infectious disease and human genetic disease diagnosis and detection. He is currently involved in a continent-wide surveillance project to monitor for the potential transmission of the Asian H5N1 virus by migratory birds.

Donald Moynihan
Dr. Donald Moynihan is Assistant Professor of Public Affairs at the La Follette School of Public Affairs. His research examines how crises are managed. In particular, he is interested in how network and hierarchical approaches to managing organizations are combined in crises in the form of incident command systems. He recently completed a study of an outbreak of Exotic Newcastle Disease in California for the IBM Center for the Business of Government (available on the internet at: http://www.businessofgovernment.org/pdfs/MoynihanReport.pdf). He has published in Public Administration Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Administration & Society, Public Performance and Management Review, Governance, Journal of Policy History, American Review of Public Administration and Review of Public Personnel Administration.

Eric K. Noji (KEYNOTE SPEAKER)
Dr. Eric K. Noji is a CDC physician serving as Senior Policy Advisor for Health & National Security to the Director in Washington, D.C. Since 2002, he has been responsible for working with Congress, the White House and other Executive Branch agencies on issues related to emergency health preparedness and response. In this position, he has been detailed as a Senior Health Advisor for Chemical and Biological Medical Readiness to both the Pentagon’s Chemical & Biological Defense Program and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Before his assignments to Washington D.C., Dr. Noji was Associate Director for Bio-Emergency Preparedness and Response with the National Center for Infectious Diseases at CDC in Atlanta, Georgia. Following the attacks on the World Trade Center and during the anthrax crises in 2001, Dr. Noji was assigned to the White House Office of Homeland Security in the Executive Office of the President as an expert in the treatment of biological, chemical, nuclear and blast terrorism and continues to serve as Special Assistant to the US Surgeon General for Homeland Security and Disaster Medicine.

During his 18 year career at the Centers for Disease Control, he has had extensive domestic and international experience in responding to natural and technological disasters, terrorism, violent civil conflict and wars resulting in hundreds of thousands of forcibly displaced people and other humanitarian crises. Dr. Noji is the author or co-author of over 200 scientific articles and publications on disaster medicine, disaster epidemiology, clinical toxicology and the medical response to terrorism, WMD, refugees and complex humanitarian emergencies. Dr. Noji was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in October, 2005.

Jonathan Patz
Jonathan Patz, MD, MPH, is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he directs a university-wide initiative on Global Environmental Health. He is a Senior Fellow of the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE), an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and an Affiliate Scientist of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

He has served as Co-chair for the health sector expert panel of the US National Assessment on Climate Variability and Change, Convening Lead Author for the United Nations Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, and lead author on several United Nations Intergovernmental Panels on Climate Change (IPCC). He is Co-Editor for the journal, Ecohealth: Conservation Medicine and Ecosystem Sustainability, and has written a textbook, and over 60 peer-reviewed papers addressing the health effects of global environmental change.

Mary Proctor
Mary Proctor, PhD, MPH, is Program Director of the Southcentral Wisconsin Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Consortium. The Consortium coordinates planning, training and response activities for six county public health agencies and their community partners. Prior to her current position, Dr. Proctor directed the Communicable Disease Epidemiology Program at the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services for eleven years. She also has seven years experience conducting research on human viral infections in the Medical Microbiology Department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Proctor holds a doctorate in medical microbiology from Georgetown University, a Master of Public Health degree in epidemiology from the University of Michigan School of Public Health, and has taken preparedness training at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Integrated Emergency Institute in Emmitsburg, Maryland.

Ty Vannieuwenhoven
Dr. Ty Vannieuwenhoven works as an Emergency Coordinator for the US Department of Agriculture. His current responsibilities include preparedness for animal disease outbreaks at the state and county level for the states of Minnesota and Wisconsin. Prior to his current position, Dr. Vannieuwenhoven worked on the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's national veterinary staff for emergency management where he developed national plans and policy for outbreaks. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine and the Harvard University School of Public Health. Dr. Vannieuwenhoven got his start in global health during several deployments to provide refugee relief while on Active Duty in the US Army. He now serves a homeland security and disaster preparedness role as a reservist on the medical staff of US Northern Command.

SPONSORS

The UW-Madison Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE), a member program of the International Institute, a joint initiative of the Division of International Studies and the College of Letters & Science, organized this symposium.

WAGE would like to thank the following co-sponsors: Division of International Studies, School of Veterinary Medicine, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), Department of Population Health Sciences, Robert M. LaFollette School of Public Affairs, Center for Global Health, University Research Park, WI Department of Natural Resources, WI Department of Agriculture, Trade, & Consumer Protection, WI Department of Health and Family Services and USGS National Wildlife Health Center.

NEWS

Dylewski, Adam. Avian flu: The next pandemic? The Daily Cardinal [online edition]. April 9, 2006.

Miller, Keaton. Wis. Ready for Anything. The Daily Cardinal [online edition]. April 9, 2006.

Mills, Shamane. "Experts Monitor and Ponder Pandemic Potential." Wisconsin Public Radio. April 7. 2006. Audio

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