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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2013. Perspectives on Research with H5N1 Avian Influenza: Scientific Inquiry, Communication, Controversy: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18255.
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Appendix D

Workshop Agenda

Issues Raised, Lessons Learned, and Paths Forward for
Dual-Use Research in the Life Sciences:
The H5N1 Research Controversy—A Workshop

20 F Street, NW Conference Center
Washington, DC 20001
May 1, 2012

8:00 Continental Breakfast
     
8:30 Welcome:

Harvey Fineberg, Institute of Medicine

     
8:35 Introduction:

Workshop Planning Committee Co-Chairs


   

David Relman, Stanford University and VA Palo Alto Health Care System

David Korn, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

     
8:40 Session 1: The Ongoing Revolution in the Life Sciences and Associated Technologies
     
  Moderator:

David Baltimore, California Institute of Technology

     
  Speaker:

Roger Brent, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

     
Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2013. Perspectives on Research with H5N1 Avian Influenza: Scientific Inquiry, Communication, Controversy: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18255.
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  Commentators:  
   

Lawrence D. Kerr, National Counterproliferation Center, Office of the Director of National Intelligence


   

Joe Palca, National Public Radio

     
9:30 Discussion with Participants
     
10:00 Break
     
10:15 Session 2: Two Case Studies from Conceptualization to Dissemination of Findings with Consideration of Plausible Points of Intervention and Decision-Making
     
  Moderator:

Alice Huang, California Institute of Technology

     
  Speakers:

1918 Spanish Flu Reconstruction:

Jeffery K. Taubenberger, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health

     
   

H5N1 Avian Influenza:

Robert G. Webster, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

     
11:15 Discussion with Participants
     
12:00 Lunch  
     
1:15 Session 3: Roundtable Discussion on the Nature of the Social Contract

  Moderator:

Harold T. Shapiro, Princeton University


  Speakers:

Ruth L. Berkelman, Emory University

Robert Cook-Deegan, Duke University

Gregory E. Kaebnick, The Hastings Center

Daniel J. Kevles, Yale University

Carl Zimmer, Frequent Contributor, The New York Times


Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2013. Perspectives on Research with H5N1 Avian Influenza: Scientific Inquiry, Communication, Controversy: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18255.
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2:15 Discussion with Participants

3:00 Break

3:15 Session 4: Roundtable Discussion on Governance, Oversight, and the Path Forward

  Moderator:

Lawrence O. Gostin, Georgetown University


  Speakers:

Ann Arvin, Stanford University

Anthony S. Fauci, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health

David Franz, United States Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases (retired)

David Heymann, U.K. Health Protection Agency

Piers Millet, United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs’ Implementation Support Unit


4:15 Discussion with Participants

5:00 Wrap-Up:

Workshop Planning Committee Co-Chairs

David Relman, Stanford University and VA Palo Alto Health Care System

David Korn, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School


5:15 Adjourn  
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When, in late 2011, it became public knowledge that two research groups had submitted for publication manuscripts that reported on their work on mammalian transmissibility of a lethal H5N1 avian influenza strain, the information caused an international debate about the appropriateness and communication of the researchers' work, the risks associated with the work, partial or complete censorship of scientific publications, and dual-use research of concern in general.

Recognizing that the H5N1 research is only the most recent scientific activity subject to widespread attention due to safety and security concerns, on May 1, 2012, the National Research Council's Committee on Science, Technology and Law, in conjunction with the Board on Life Sciences and the Institute of Medicine's Forum on Microbial Threats, convened a one-day public workshop for the purposes of 1) discussing the H5N1 controversy; 2) considering responses by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which had funded this research, the World Health Organization, the U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB), scientific publishers, and members of the international research community; and 3) providing a forum wherein the concerns and interests of the broader community of stakeholders, including policy makers, biosafety and biosecurity experts, non-governmental organizations, international organizations, and the general public might be articulated.

Perspectives on Research with H5N1 Avian Influenza: Scientific Enquiry, Communication, Controversy summarizes the proceedings of the workshop.

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