Bioterrorism meetings & conferences

International Society for Disease Surveillance Annual Conference

The ISDS Annual Conference is the premier event dedicated to the advancement of the science and practice of biosurveillance. This year’s theme, Expanding Collaborations to Chart a New Course in Public Health Surveillance, will highlight the importance of working together across agencies, sectors, and disciplines to improve surveillance methods and population health outcomes. The conference will be held at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina in San Diego, CA, December 4-5, 2012, with Pre-Conference Workshops on December 3rd.

The ISDS Conference draws professionals from a broad range of disciplines— epidemiology and computer science to mathematical modeling and health policy—to learn and contribute the latest achievements, methodologies, best practices, conceptual frameworks, and technical innovations in the rapidly evolving field of biosurveillance. This year's conference will provide fertile ground for cultivating new ideas and partnerships with roundtable discussions, panels and other opportunities to collaborate.

The scope of this conference includes all of the components, policies, methods, practices, infrastructure, research and evaluation related to timely surveillance of communicable diseases, chronic diseases and injuries. This includes notifiable conditions, adverse events and emerging/novel threats; biological, chemical, and radiological health threats; plant, animal, and food surveillance; and environmental monitoring.

4th International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC Davos 2012

"Integrative Risk Management in a Changing World - Pathways to a Resilient Society"

26-30 August 2012 Davos, Switzerland

Pre- conference events from 24 to 26 August
Post- conference events from 31 August to 4 September

Today’s societies are faced with numerous interconnected, complex and emerging risks. Environmental, technical, social and economic risks are often closely linked and can result in successive impact. For example the recent earthquake in Japan, resulted in a disastrous tsunami, creating nuclear meltdown at its key facilities. Risks and disasters explored at the IDRC include, amongst others, natural hazards, failures of critical infrastructure and services, pandemics, acts of terrorism and financial crises. All can severely impact and influence human beings and collective societies.

Participants of IDRC include risk management experts, practitioners, scientists, key players from civil society, Non-Governmental Organisations and the private sector. The diversity of participants enables both a strategic and operational level of discussion to ensure “the last mile” will be considered with key players from line ministries and disaster and risk management authorities. IDRC Davos 2012 helps bridge the gap in problem solving between the causes of problems governance, and technology.

Featured Themes, Topics, Tools, Methodologies and Frameworks

The complex and multi faceted nature of risks demands an innovative, holistic and problem oriented approach to risk and disaster management. The IDRC Davos 2012 theme “Integrative Risk Management in a changing world” will further establish and develop the approach to integrative risk management. The aim is to globally increase resilience and reduce vulnerability.

IDRC Davos 2012 will address the Integrative Risk Management Approach within the following context:

Disaster prevention, preparedness, emergency response, vulnerability and resilience

Extreme events, climate change adaptation, migration

Critical infrastructures and services

Na-tech hazards, cascading risks, technological risks

Health impacts, medical response, One Health

Capacity building, education, communication and training

Economics of disaster, financial tools for risk management

Risk and society, risk governance, risk culture

Contact us

Global Risk Forum GRF Davos

International Disaster and Risk Conference (IDRC)
Promenade 35
CH - 7270 Davos Platz
Switzerland

Tel. +41 (81) 414 16 00
Fax. +41 (81) 414 16 01

e-mail: info@grforum.org
http://www.grforum.org

International Conference on Occupational Health and Safety Summit

OMICS Group invites all the participants across the globe to attend the International Conference on Occupational Health and Safety Summit 5-7 September 2012 Philadelphia, Pennslyvania.

Occupational Health-2012 is a remarkable event which brings together a unique and International mix of large and medium Diagnostic companies, leading universities and Occupational safety research institutions making the conference a perfect platform to share experience, foster collaboration across industries and evaluate emerging technologies across the globe.
Occupational Health & Safety is a cross-disciplinary area concerned with protecting the Safety, Health and Welfare of people engaged in work or employment. The main goal of this program is to foster a safe work and working environment.

The International Conference on Occupational Health & Safety Summit-2012 will schedule and coordinate all meetings with our Editorial Board Members and other experts in the Research and Therapy field across the World. The scientific program paves a way to gather visionaries through the research talks and presentations and put forward many thought provoking strategies on Occupational Health & Safety.

Conference Highlights the following topics:

• Health Informatics
• Medical Informatics
• Occupational Disease
• Agricultural Health and Safety
• Physical Health
• Public Health
• Infection Disease
• Occupational Vaccination
• Biological Weapons

World Conference on Disaster Management

June 25th – 27th, 2012 Toronto, Canada

The World Conference on Disaster Management (WCDM) is proud to be the premier annual event for disaster management professionals, providing a global perspective on current issues and concerns in the industry.

The 22nd WCDM will bring delegates from over 40 countries within the fields of Emergency Management, Business Continuity, Emergency Response, Risk Management, IT Disaster Recovery, Disaster Management Research, Emergency Communications, Emergency Health, Security, HR, Environmental, Community Planning, as well as for the organizations which supply and service these professions.

A major goal of the WCDM is to offer a program that challenges delegates by examining traditional concepts and methods, and provides:

new ideas and approaches to problem solving both leading edge and topical presentations opportunities to connect with key individuals and organizations across the disaster management spectrum

The 2012 Conference theme is: Global Threats....Local Consequences

Streams:

Real Events / Lessons Learned Real incidents/events – these should either be recent events (within last 18 months) or draw on lessons learned from past events that can be applied in current planning. Emerging Trends in Disaster Management Global Climate Change, Infectious diseases (including flu pandemic), Terrorism, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Community & Organizational Resilience, Nuclear, Biological, Radiological & Chemical threats (NBRC), Enterprise Risk Management, Cyber threats, Use of Social Media etc The Human Element in Disaster Management Crisis Communications, Biggest PR Issues within the last year, Violence in the Workplace, HR Policies, Stress Reduction, Trauma Risk Management, Personal Preparedness & Pandemic Planning Technical Issues/Threats Cyber & Electronic Data Security, Virtualization and Cloud Computing as related to Disaster Recovery, Emergency Communications, Interoperability, Communication Systems Options, Emergency Management / BCP Software.Disaster Management Principles & Practices Emergency Operations Centres, Emergency Site Management, NIMS/ICS, Standards, Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery, HAZMAT, Managing the Media, Major Event Contingency Planning, Public Awareness and Education Campaigns, Evacuation Planning, Exercise and Training Programs, Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment. Innovation A new stream to highlight the critical importance of innovation in dealing with the increasing severity (and perhaps frequency) of disasters and emergencies as well as the impact of the global economic crisis - further cuts, sometimes drastic, to budgets and resources for all aspects of disaster management.

For information regarding the program, contact:

Adrian Gordon
Senior Advisor
Email: adrian.gordon@gmail.com