NEWS

ISGP convenes successful conference in Scotland

• Ilaria Capua, D.V.M., Ph.D., Director, Division of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Padova, Italy.
• Kasisomayajula “Vish” Viswanath, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Harvard School of Public Health; Associate Professor, Dana-Farber Cancer, Institute; Faculty Director, Health Communication Core, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center
• Robert C. Gallo, M.D., Director, Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Director, Global Virus Network
• Roy Anderson, F.R.S., F.Med.Sci., Chair of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London
• Shaun Kennedy, B.S.Ch.E., Director, National Center for Food Protection and Defense, Assistant Professor, Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota
• Michael P. Doyle, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D., Regents Professor and Director, Center for Food Safety, University of Georgia
• John I. Glass, Ph.D., Professor, J. Craig Venter Institute
• Joyce Tait, C.B.E., F.R.S.E., D. Univ. (Open), Ph.D., B.Sc, Professor and Scientific Advisor, Innogen Centre, University of Edinburgh
• Attendees included representatives from more than a dozen nations, international organizations, and industry groups.

The ISGP staff currently is writing the summaries of the critical debates as well as the areas of consensus and next steps for the book to be published in early 2012.