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2012 Biosurveillance Conference

"Creating A National Biosurveillance Strategy: Addressing the Shortfalls and Filling the Gaps"

Washington, DC

Agenda

MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 2012

Cloud-Based Computational Biosurveillance Framework

• Dr. Arvind Ramanathan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  

International Systems for Monitoring Viral Chatter

• Dr. Brad Schneider, Metabiota
  

Biosurveillance in a Global Age: Harnessing the Expertise of the Broad Scientific Community

• Dr. C. Nicole Rosenzweig, Edgewood Chemical Biological Center

Integrating Tiered Orthogonal Strategies into a Global Immune System

• Dr. David Hirschberg, Columbia University
  

BSV Ecosystem (BSVE) and Role 0/1 Diagnostic Devices

• Dr. Jason Paragas, Defense Threat Reduction Agency
  

TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2012

Operations and Innovation in Homeland Security Biosurveillance - Use of Novel Data and Information for Early Warning and Shared Situational Awareness

• Dr. Steve Bennett, National Biosurveillance Integration Center
  

HealthMap: Novel Sources of Information on Emerging Biological Threats

• Ms. Jane Huston, HealthMap
  

Early Work on the Grand Canyon: The Daunting Cultural, Political, and Technical Hurdles Slowing the Definition, Design, and Implementation of an Effective "One Health"Biosurveillance System

• Mr. Tom Slezak, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  

Bioinformatic Strategies for Biosurveillance

• Mr. Bob Cottingham, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Predicting Events Based on Social Media Exposure: from the Arab Spring, Natural Disasters, to Disease Outbreaks

• Mr. Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, Topsy Labs, Inc.
  

Using Social Media to Enhance Disease Surveillance

• Dr. Jacqueline Coberly, Johns Hopkins Univ. Applied Physics Lab
  

Integration of Experimental and Textual Data for Biosurveillance

• Dr. Bobbie-Jo Webb-Robertson, Pacific Northwest National Lab

Spatial and Temporal Data Fusion for Biosurveillance

• Ms. Karen Cheng, Applied Research Associates

Next Generation Pathogen Characterization Workbench for Global Biosurveillance

• Dr. Helen Cui, Los Alamos National Lab