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GRIPS Innovation, Science and Technology Policy Program
(GIST) and Global Health Innovation Policy Program
(GHIP) Seminar:

http://www3.grips.ac.jp/~gist/en/events/gist056.html
　
GIST-GHIP　Joint The 56th GIST Seminar "Dual-use research of concern (DURC): revolution, innovation, risks, and challenges of cutting-edge biology"

■Speaker: Dr. Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health Council on Foreign Relations

■Date&Time: 14:00-16:00, Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013

■Venue: Meeting Room 3C, 1st floor, GRIPS (Minato-ku,
Tokyo) (7-22-1, Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo)(Access)
■Language: English

■Registration Fee: Free (Pre-registration required) Please register at Registration Form by Nov 29（Fri）.

■Presentation Overview
Dual-use research of concern (DURC) refers to work that could have both beneficial and dangerous consequences.
In this talk, Laurie Garrett will new revolutions in biology - such as gain of function research and synthetic biology - that exemplify the DURC problem, and are forcing policymakers across the globe to rethink both national and international surveillance and regulatory systems.

■Speaker's CV
Laurie Garrett is currently the senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Garrett is the only writer to have been awarded all three of the Big "Ps" of journalism: the Peabody, the Polk, and the Pulitzer. Garrett is also the best-selling author of The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance and Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health. Her most recent book, I Heard the Sirens
Scream: How Americans Responded to the 9/11 and Anthrax Attacks, received the 2011 E-Literature Award for Best Science Writing. Garrett currently serves on the advisory board for the Noguchi Prize, and is a principal member of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN). She is an expert on global health with a focus on newly emerging and re-emerging diseases; public health and the effects on foreign policy and national security.

■Links
* Biology's Brave New World The Promise and
Perils of the Synbio Revolution (Foreign Affaires)
* Staying Safe in a Biology Revolution (Council
on Foreign Relations)
* Making the New Revolutions in Biology Safe
(Council on Foreign Relations)
* H5N1: A Case Study for Dual-Use Research A
CFR Working Paper (Council on Foreign Relations)

【On GRIPS Innovative Science and Technology Policy
Program: GIST】
GIST provides an integrated educational program consisting of a doctorate program, a master’s program, and a short-term training program to develop human resources competent to integrate knowledge of a broad range of specialty areas and to understand social issues precisely, as well as to design, plan, perform, evaluate, and modify STI policy using the scientific approach. At the same time, it promotes research and education in the field of “Science of STI Policy” in alliance with such representative agencies for research on STI policy in Japan as the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP) and the Center for Research and Development Strategy (CRDS) of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).

GIST (GRIPS Innovation, Science and Technology Policy
Program) Tateo Arimoto, Akira Goto, Terutaka Kuwahara,Jun Suzuki, Atsushi Sunami, Patarapong Intarakumnerd, Naotoshi Tsukada

【Global Health Innovation Policy Program: GHIP】
With an aspiration to becoming an international center of excellence in global health, Global Health Innovation Policy Program will: formulate and evaluate policies that contribute to innovations in global health; develop human resource in global health innovation; analyze processes of policy making, implementation and appraisal in order to facilitate public-private partnership conducive to effective use of Japanese medical and pharmaceutical technologies in improving health and nutritional conditions in developing countries; engage in researches that broaden international understanding on global health; build leadership capacities in Japan in global health innovation; and establish broad partnerships with global health institutes worldwide.

GHIP(Global Health Innovation Policy Program) Kiyoshi Kurokawa , Hiromi Murakami

If you cannot open the form, please send email to GIST Secretariat, gist-ml grips.ac.jp. Registration email must include:
1) your name, 2) institution, 3) job title, and 4) contact information (email address or phone number).
The application will be closed as soon as the number of applicants reaches the capacity.

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