Resources

Speeches and presentations

 

Participants at the BWC Meeting in Oslo 18 June 2009. Photo: MB Haga, MFA, Oslo

Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre at the BWC Meeting 18 June 2009. Photo: MB Haga, MFA, Oslo

 

• Opening speech by Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre
• The Biological Weapons Convention Supporting Global Health: Reducing Biological Risks by Building Capacity in Health Security, Co-chairs’ Summary
• Reducing Biological Risk by Building Capacity in Health Security. Presentation by Donald Sinclair
• Biological Science, Technology and Education in International Cooperative Networks - An Industry Perspective. Presentation by Gary Burns
• The way ahead. Presentation by Herawati Sudoyo
• Opportunities & Challenges in Global Cooperation: Influenza Virus Sharing, Intellectual Property  and Access to Vaccines and other Benefits. Presentation by Anne Huvos
• Biosafety and Biosecurity: The Instrument for Stability of European Union. Presentation by Isabelle Daoust-Maleval
• Intervention by the Head of the Delegation of Brazil, Ambassador Sergio Eduardo Moreira Lima
• Statement by the Nigerian delegation
• Cooperation, Development and Security: Evolving Perceptions of Article X. Presentation by Richard Lennane
• The role of Article X in supporting the efforts to secure animal and plant health: FAO. Presentation by David Nowell
• National experience in building health security, relationship to Article X implementation. Presentation by Agus Purwadianto
• The Role of the ISU in Supporting Capacity-building. Presentation by Richard Lennane
• The Laboratory Biorisk Management Standard: Promoting Cooperation on Disease Surveillance and Research. Presentation by Stephen McAdam
• Prevention and Control of Animal Diseases. Presentation by Caroline Planté
• The Biological Weapons Convention Supporting Global Health: Reducing Biological Risk by Building Capacity in Health Security. Presentation by Nássara Azeredo Souza Thomé
• The History, Role and Importance of Article X of the BTWC. Presentation by Devina Naidoo
• The BWC Supporting Global Health:  Reducing Biological Risk by Building Capacity in Health Security. Presentation by May C. Chu
• Biological Weapons Convention Supporting Health: Reducing Biological Risk by Building Capacity in Health Security. Presentation by Guénaël R. Rodier
• Capacity building against biological risk: How Article X can contribute to the security aims of the BTCW as well as public health. Presentation by Preben Aavitsland
  

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News articles and briefs

• WHO: International Health Regulations. IHR Briefs 1, 2,  3
• WHO: Ten things you need to do to implement the IHR
• Remote diagnosis: Satellite data can suggest when and where epidemics will strike next, Economist 21 May 2009