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A Survey of Attitudes and Actions on Dual Use Research in the Life Sciences A Collaborative Effort of the National Research Council and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2009) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix A: Committee Member Biographies
Pages 135-138

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... He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he worked on Mars life detection. He is chair of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Planetary Protection Board, chair of the Wellcome Trust Infection, Immunology, and Population Health Strategy Committee, and and co-chair of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
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... , with whom he participated in human rights missions to Turkey, Iraq, and Panama. David Franz is vice president and chief biological scientist, Midwest Research Institute; director, National Agricultural Biosecurity Center, Kansas State University; and deputy director, Center for Emergency Care and Preparedness, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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... He has served on a variety of national and international advisory committees on survey research methods, including service to the World Health Organization, the National Center for Health Statistics, the Food and Drug Administration, the Bureau of the Census, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and other federal statistical agencies. He is an active member of the American Statistical Association, serving in various offices in the Survey Research Methods Section and on association committees, is a fellow of the association, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.
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... Relevant recent publications include "Conversion at Stepnogorsk: What the Future Holds for Former Bioweapons Facilities" (Peace Studies Program Occasional Paper 2003) ; "Bioweapons Proliferation: Where Science Studies and Public Policy Collide" (Social Studies of Science 36:659–690, 2006)
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