[Sci-tech-public] REMINDER: Student Pugwash Seminar today: 4/19/2005

[Deborah Fairchild]

>Biodefense Research and Public Health
>Tuesday, April 19th
>5pm - 6:30pm
>MIT room 4-237
>http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg
>
>Dr. Rocco Casagrande, PhD, Former UN Biological Weapons Inspector in
>Iraq, Director of Homeland Security Program at Abt Associates, Cambridge, MA
>
>Dr. David Ozonoff, MD, MPH, Professor of Environmental Health at BU
>School of Public Health
>
>Biodefense-related research funding has increased, and the public health
>system has undergone restructuring in response to the threat of
>bioterrorism. What is biodefense research and what are its implications?
>How can research and resources be directed most usefully towards
>protecting and improving public health? Please join us as our speakers
>address these issues.
>
>Sponsored by MIT Student Pugwash; for more information, contact:
>pugwash-officer at mit.edu

Deborah L. Fairchild
Administrative Officer
Program in Science, Technology and Society
E51-184
dlfair at mit.edu
Phone:  (617) 253-4084
Fax:    (617) 258-8118