Speeches
Sam Nunn speaks at the Pacific Health Summit in Seattle.
June 11, 2007
NTI Co-Chairman Sam Nunn addresses the need for global cooperation to better protect against biological threats – whether they are naturally occurring or intentionally caused.
Turner, Nunn, Health Experts Release
Results of Georgia Exercises, Propose Actions to Improve Preparedness for
Bioterrorism and Bird Flu [pdf]
April 18, 2006
The State of Georgia has conducted a series of emergency response
exercises designed to test and improve readiness to respond to public
health threats, including biological terrorism and avian flu.
Sam
Nunn Discusses Need for New Public-Private Partnership to
Reduce the Threat of Bioterrorism [pdf]
December 9, 2004
NTI Co-Chairman Sam Nunn says that active leadership of the
scientific community is essential to develop norms of scientific
behavior that will secure dangerous biological materials without
suffocating scientific research.
Regarding
the Report of the UN High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges
and Change [pdf]
December 2, 2004
NTI Co-Chairman Sam Nunn commends the panel for recognizing
that "we need to do more, faster" to reduce the
threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and
materials.
"Public
Health Preparedness and Our Global Security", by NTI
Co-Chairman Sam Nunn [pdf]
June 19, 2002
In remarks at a CDC sponsored conference on "Public Health
and the Law," Senator Nunn outlines several of the key
policy issues facing the U.S. and the world with a particular
focus on the importance of public health becoming an 'indispensable
pillar' in our global security framework.
Op-Eds
"Diseases Gaining Ground: SARS Exposes Gaps in Public Health Systems" by Sam Nunn and Margaret Hamburg, M.D. [pdf]
May 26, 2003
Published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, this op-ed outlines the weaknesses in our global health system that have been exposed through the global response to SARS.
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Press Releases
Southeast Asian Nations Conduct Joint Exercise in Cambodia to Improve Flu Pandemic Response
March 14, 2007
Senior government officials from six Southeast Asian countries today completed a first-ever simulation exercise designed to test responses to a pandemic influenza emergency.
Sam Nunn says the U.S. Urgently Needs a National Biodefense Strategy [pdf]
Dec. 14, 2004
Newly Expanded Global System Will Help Detect Potential Public Health Threats [pdf]
Nov. 17, 2004
WHO & NTI Establish Global Emergency Outbreak Response Fund [pdf]
December 2, 2002
The Fund will strengthen the global response to infectious disease outbreaks, whether naturally occurring or from the release of biological weapons.
Testimony
Margaret
A. Hamburg, M.D. testifies before the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism
September 10, 2008
Dr. Hamburg emphasized the urgency and unique nature of the bioterror threat and addressed the strategies needed to strengthen biosecurity globally.
Dr.
Mark S. Smolinski, testifies at the 2005 Meeting of Experts
of the Biological Weapons Convention in Geneva [pdf]
June 15, 2005
NTI's Vice President of Biological Programs and Director of
the Global Health and Security Initiative underscored the
need to tackle the challenge of safeguarding life sciences
through a multi-disciplinary and integrated approach that
engages both the biomedical science and security communities.
Margaret
A. Hamburg, M.D. testifies before the House Committee on Government
Reform [pdf]
April 9, 2003
Dr. Hamburg testifies on important concerns raised by the
emergence and ongoing response to the SARS outbreak, as well
as broader issues of emerging infections, public health and
security.
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