CTNSP/NDU Senior Level Seminar Series
Vaccines Workshop
National Defense University

Join the National Defense University (NDU) Thursday, March 17, 2005, for the third in a series of senior level workshops on civilian and Department of Defense biosecurity concerns. This workshop is designed to explore vaccination in terms of the military’s operational needs. Invited speakers will place vaccine research and utilization into the context of both history and the unique circumstances that exist in the vaccine community today. After these presentations, all conference attendees will break into three working groups—Science, Military, and Policy-Industry-Economics.

Hosted by NDU’s Center for Technology and National Security Policy (CTNSP), this one-day event will ask every attendee to be an active participant by joining one of the three working groups. Each group will meet separately to discuss assigned questions such as:

• What is the relationship between military operational needs and civilian needs?
• What promising approaches are not being pursued because of lack of funds?
• Which of biotechnology’s prospects are most likely to have a long-term impact on vaccines?

The three groups will each report their conclusions and concerns to the entire conference. Everyone will then spend some time discussing--based on the groups’ findings--issues such as “Where can we reasonably expect vaccine research to be in 5-10 years?” and “What scientific and nonscientific problems must be addressed?”

Confirmed speakers include Dale C. Smith, PhD, Chairman of Medical History at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS); Sanford L. Weiner, Director, Program on Regulatory Reform, MIT Center for International Studies (CIS); and Gregory A. Poland, MD, Director, Mayo Vaccine Research Group. Other participants will be from a wide range of fields in the public and private sectors, as well as the Armed Forces.

Agenda (tentative)

The event is not for attribution, and will be held on campus at Fort McNair, Washington, DC. Please join us for a day of discussion, learning, and perhaps debate.