Publications and Events

Beyond Mammograms: Perspectives on Comparative Effectiveness Research
2168 Rayburn • December 15, 2009
(webcast)
Moderator

• Alan Leshner: CEO of AAAS and former head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at NIH.
  Panelists
• Steve Pearson, MD, MSc, FRCP:President, Institute for Clinical and Economic Review; Senior Fellow at America’s Health Insurance Plans; and Visiting Scientist, Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health
• Nancy Berlinger, PhD, MDiv: Deputy Director and Research Scholar, The Hastings Center
• Richard Payne, MD Professor of Medicine and Divinity, Duke University, and Esther Colliflower Director of the Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life
• Steve Findalay, MPH: Senior Health Policy Analyst, Consumers Union


Climate Change: Health & Policy Implications
188 Russell • November 16, 2009
Moderator

• Bruce Alberts Editor-in-chief of Science
  Panelists
• Rita R. Colwell Distinguished University Professor University of Maryland, College Park Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Lynn Goldman Professor of Environmental Health Sciences Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Mary Hayden Scientist National Center for Atmospheric Research

Climate Change and Our Coasts: Impacts and Adaptation Options
253 Russell • November 9, 2009

• Vicki Arroyo Executive Director, Georgetown State and Federal Climate Resource Center
• Virginia Burkett Chief Scientist for Global Change Research, U.S. Geological Survey
• Ken Caldeira Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution of Washington
• David Kennedy Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator, National Ocean Service, NOAA

Science, Innovation and the FY 2010 R&D Budget
Cannon Caucus Room • September 30, 2009
• Rep. Judy Biggert, Research and Development Caucus Co-chair
• Rep. Rush Holt, Research and Development Caucus Co-chair
• Patrick Clemins Director, R&D Budget & Policy Program, AAAS

H1N1: Informing Tomorrow by Looking at Today (video)
AAAS Auditorium 1200 New York Avenue NW • July 2, 2009
• Harvey Fineberg, M.D. (panel chair), President, Institute of Medicine, National Academies
• RADM Anne Schuchat, M.D., Assistant Surgeon General, U.S. Public Health Service; Director, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Anthony Fauci, M.D., Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health
• RADM Kenneth W. Bernard, M.D., Assistant Surgeon General, US Public Health Service (Ret.); Former Special Assistant to the President for Biodefense
• CAPT Kenneth Cole, M.D., Medical Director, Office of the Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Chemical and Biological Defense and Chemical Demilitarization Programs; Department of Defense

Southwestern and Rocky Mountain Division Annual Meeting
University of Tulsa • March 28 - April 1, 2009

Antibiotic Use in Animal Agriculture and Antibiotic Resistance: Is There a Link?
Senate Dirksen 430 • February 24, 2009
• Glen Morris, PhD, Director, Emerging Pathogen Institute, University of Florida
• David Wallinga, PhD, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy/Keep Antibiotics Working Coalition; 1995-96 AAAS Diplomacy Fellow at USAID
• Tara Smith, PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology; founder of Iowa Citizens for Science

Climate Change: Intersections of Science and Policy
366 Dirksen and 2325 Rayburn • January 9, 2009

• Timothy Wirth, president of the United Nations Foundation and the Better World Fund and lead U.S. negotiator for the Kyoto Climate Conference in 1997
• Susan Solomon, a senior scientist at NOAA who recently served as one of the co-chairs of Working Group 1 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• Peter Gleick is the president and co-founder of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security.
• Ted Parson, Professor of Law and of Natural Resources & Environment at the University of Michigan