Emerging and Presistent Infectious Diseases:
Focus on Prevention

Executive summary

• Introduction: Institute on Science for Global Policy (ISGP)
  Dr. George H. Atkinson, Founder and Executive Director, ISGP, and Professor, University of Arizona 
   
• Conference conclusions: Areas of consensus and Actionable next steps
  
  
• Conference program 
  
  
• Conference Announcement

Policy position papers and debate summaries

• Managing the Risks From New and Emerging Infectious Disease: the ‘One Health’ Paradigm
  Prof. Martyn Jeggo, The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research’s Animal Health Laboratory and Deakin University, Australia
  
  
• Bugs and Bucks: Infectious Disease Persistence is a Matter of  Economics
  Dr. David Fisman, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, and School of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada
  
  
• Vaccines: Very Successful, Strangely Controversial
  Dr. David Markovitz, Division of Infectious Diseases, and programs in Cellular and Molecular Biology, Cancer Biology, and Immunology, University of Michigan, United States
  
  
• Preventing the Untreatable: Why Drug-resistant Tuberculosis Must Be Prevented
  Dr. Timothy Rodwell, Division of Global Public Health, University of San Diego School of Medicine; Refugee Health Assessment Program; and Utopia Scientific, United States
  
  
• Moving from Hazard-based to Risk-based Microbial Food Safety Systems to Promote Public Health and Foster Fair Trade Practices
  Dr. Robert Buchanan, Center for Food Safety and Security Systems, College of Agricultural and Natural Resources, University of Maryland, United States
  
  
• The Use of Farm-to-Fork Surveillance and New Genome Sequencing Techniques to Prevent and Control Foodborne Disease Globally
  Dr. Jørgen Schlundt, the National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
  
  
• Would You Ever Recommend Driving a Motorbike Without a Helmet?
  Dr. Sergio Abrignani, National Institute of Molecular Genetics and University of Siena School of Medicine, Italy
  
  
• Synthetic Biology and Infectious Disease: Challenges and Opportunities
  Dr. Bruce Hay, California Institute of Technology, United States
  
  

Biographical information of scientific presenters

Biographical information of ISGP staff