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Dlawer Ala'Aldeen
Dlawer Ala'Aldeen is a Professor of
Clinical Microbiology at the University of Nottingham and head
of the Molecular Bacteriology and Immunology Group at Nottingham's
University Hospital. His main area of research is the prevention
of bacterial diseases by vaccines and improving our understanding
of human response to infection. Dlawer has a long-standing academic
interest in Chemical and Biological Weapons (CBW) disarmament
and has worked with the Working Party on CBW. He was born in
Kurdistan and his parents and siblings were among the victims
of chemical weapons used there. |
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Steven Barnett
Professor Steven Barnett is a writer
and broadcaster on media issues. He has directed a number of
research projects on broadcasting. His most recent studies include
a 25-year analysis of changing trends in TV news, and a study
of TV drama and current affairs programmes. Steven writes a
fortnightly column for the Observer and is a regular contributor
to the broadsheet and specialist press on media issues. He has
been researching and writing on the communications industries
for 20 years, and is on the Editorial Board of the British Journalism
Review. |
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William Bicknell MD
Professor William Bicknell joined
the Health Policy Institute at Boston University in 1978 and
is now Chairman Emeritus of the school of public health's department
of international health. Bill has served as the first Medical
Director for the Job Corps, a national programme for disadvantaged
youth. He also served as Acting Director of the national Neighbourhood
Health Centre programme in the Office of Economic Opportunity.
He subsequently served as Commissioner of Public Health in Massachusetts
and later as Medical Director of the Health and Retirement Funds
of the United Mine Workers. |
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Avi Bleich MD
Professor Avi Bleich is Director
of Lev-HaSharon Mental Health Centre (including a 300 beds psychiatric
hospital, a 100 beds psychogeriatric hostel for holocaust survivors,
and few communal psychiatric clinics) and serves also as Chairman
of Psychiatry, at the Tel-Aviv University Medical School. His
past military career including becoming Head (Colonel) of the
Mental Health of the Israel Defense Forces. One of Avi's current
research interests is the field of traumatic stress and its
short and long lasting psychological effects and psychiatric
issues. |
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Simon Chinn
Simon Chinn was producer and
co-writer of BBC2's dramatised documentary, Smallpox 2002:
Silent Weapon, which depicted a major bioterrorist attack
and was nominated for a Royal Television Society award. Simon's
other documentary credits include: America Beyond the Colour
Line (BBC2/PBS), Correspondent: The Promised Land (BBC2),
The Real Alan Clark (Channel 4), Smith, Mugabe and
the Union Jack (BBC2) and War in Europe (Channel
4). He was also a producer on Channel 4's BAFTA-nominated international
affairs series, Weekly Planet. He is a producer at Mentorn,
one of the UK's leading independent TV production companies. |
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Eve Coles
Eve Coles is a senior lecturer
in risk and emergency management in the Coventry Centre for
Disaster Management. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Civil
Defence and Disaster Studies and a Fellow of the Royal Society
of Arts. She was formally Editor of Emergency, the quarterly
journal of the Institute of Civil Defence and Disaster Studies.
In her spare time Eve is Vice-Chair of Governors at a Bradford
Primary School, a post she has held for 13 years. |
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Malcolm Dando
Professor Malcolm Dando is
co-director of the Department of Peace Studies project on strengthening
the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC). He has also
recently completed a study for the Ministry of Defence on 'The
impact of the use of chemical or biological weapons and agents
on the ability of British forces to carry out military operations
in the period 2000-2020'. He was the expert adviser for the
Equinox TV programme Deadly Code. He has recently completed
a new book entitled, New Biological Weapons: Threat, Proliferation
and Control. |
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Bill Durodié
Bill Durodié is a Senior
Research Fellow in the Centre for Defence Studies, part of the
International Policy Institute at King's College London. He
is responsible for coordinating the 'Domestic Management of
Terrorist Attacks' programme, a two-year, Economic and Social
Research Council-funded project, investigating the UK's response
to the terrorist events of September 2001. He graduated from
the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London and
holds postgraduate degrees from the Institute of Education and
LSE. His doctoral research at New College Oxford, explores the
causes and consequences of social fears. |
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Michael Fitzpatrick
GP
Dr Michael Fitzpatrick is a
full-time GP in Hackney, East London. He is a columnist on the
medical journal The Lancet and a regular contributor to the
online publication spiked. He has appeared frequently on radio
and television. He is the author of The Tyranny of Health:
Doctors and the Regulation of Lifestyle. His book on the
MMR-autism controversy is due to be published in the autumn. |
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Yosri Fouda
Yosri Fouda graduated from
the Adham Center for Television Journalism, at the American
University in Cairo in 1992. In 1994 he helped establish the
Arabic BBC World Service television station. He gained valuable
field experience as a roving reporter, covering some of the
world's toughest stories. Yosri moved on to the Associated
Press in London, where in 1996 he co-founded the first and
only Middle East desk of its kind. He helped build the infrastructure
of the London-based Arab News Network (ANN) and became the
Western Europe Correspondent for the Al-Jazeera Satellite
Channel.
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Sir Lawrence Freedman
Sir Lawrence Freedman has been
Professor of War Studies at King's College, London since 1982.
In 2002 he became Head of the School of Social Sciences and
Public Policy at King's College London. He was educated at Whitley
Bay Grammar School and the Universities of Manchester, York
and Oxford. Before joining King's he held research appointments
at Nuffield College Oxford, the International Institute for
Strategic Studies, London, and the Royal Institute of International
Affairs, London. Elected a Fellow of the British Academy in
1995, he was appointed Official Historian of the Falklands Campaign
in 1997. |
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Tim Fry
Tim Fry is a Senior Audit Manager
in the National Audit Office, specialising in value for money
audit. In recent years he has concentrated on the health sector,
investigating and writing high-profile reports on NHS waiting
lists, hip replacements and emergency planning in the NHS. Tim
has a particular interest in quality of service issues, on which
he has been a consultant to OECD and the World Bank. He is a
frequent speaker at conferences on health, audit and quality
of service subjects in the UK, Europe, the USA, Far East and
Australia. |
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Frank Furedi
Frank Furedi is Professor of
Sociology at the University of Kent in Canterbury. Since 11
September, he has been exploring how the reaction to the terror
attacks provides insights into the contemporary consciousness
of risk. He has also worked on the role of rumours and their
impact on public behaviour. This research is being further developed
through a research project associated with the ESRC's 'The Domestic
Management of Terrorist Attacks' programme. Frank has contributed
to many major international publications and is a prolific author.
His recent books include: The Culture of Fear, Paranoid Parenting,
and The Therapeutic Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an
Anxious Age (forthcoming). |
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Thomas Glass
Professor Thomas Glass took
up his appointment at the John Hopkins School of Public Health
in 2000, after spending five years at the Harvard School of
Public Health. He has conducted research on the role of psychosocial
factors in health and functioning in older adults. He is particularly
interested in the role of individual psychosocial factors such
as social networks. His recent work includes successful completion
of a randomised clinical trial to test the efficacy of a family
support intervention in stroke. He is the director of intervention
for the Experience Corps, a multi-generational health promotion
project. |
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Nik Gowing
Nik Gowing has been a main
programme anchor for the BBC's 24-hour international TV news
and information channel BBC World, produced by BBC News, since
February 1996. Nik's appointment draws both on his extensive
reporting experience over two decades in diplomacy, defence
and international security and his presentation/chairing skills.
His experience includes: foreign affairs specialist and presenter
at ITN; a BAFTA award in 1981 for his exclusive coverage of
martial law in Poland; diplomatic editor for Channel 4 News
in the 1990s; and a 'Hotbird' award in 2002 for his 9/11 coverage. |
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Mike Granatt
Mike Granatt (CB FIPR) is Director-General
and Head of Profession for the Government Information and Communication
Service (GICS). Mike has been the Head of the GICS - the most
senior Civil Service communications professional - since February
1997. He has been the communication director for three departments
of state and the UK's largest police force, and press secretary
to five Cabinet Ministers and London's Police Commissioner.
Mike was the founding Head of the Cabinet Office Civil Contingencies
Secretariat in 2001. |
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William Hallman PhD
Associate Professor William
K. Hallman is an associate director of the Food Biotechnology
Research Programme at Rutgers' Food Policy Institute and an
Associate Professor of Human Ecology at Cook College. He is
also a member of the Occupational Health Division of Environmental
and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI). He received
his PhD in experimental psychology from the University of South
Carolina in 1989. A noted researcher on unexplained illnesses
in veterans of the Gulf War, Hallman is the lead investigator
on a three-year, $1 million research project funded by the Centre
for Disease Control designed to prevent illnesses related to
military deployments. |
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Philip Hammond PhD
Dr Philip Hammond is a senior
lecturer in the Arts and Media Department at South Bank University.
His research is on media coverage of post-Cold War conflicts.
During the 1999 Kosovo conflict Phil's analyses of news reporting
were carried in the Independent, Times and Broadcast, as well
as numerous on-line publications, and he worked as a consultant
on BBC2's Counterblast: Against the War (May 1999). He is a
co-editor, with Edward S. Herman, of Degraded Capability: The
Media and the Kosovo Crisis (Pluto Press, 2000). |
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Mick Hume
Mick Hume is the editor of
spiked and a columnist for The Times (London) and a regular
contributor to other publications. He was the editor of LM magazine
(which he launched, originally as Living Marxism, in 1988) until
it was forced to close in 2000 following a libel suit brought
by ITN. Hume is a fortysomething ex-grammar school boy from
Woking, who went to Manchester University and still has a season
ticket at Old Trafford. |
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James Humphreys
James Humphreys was a career
civil servant who spent the last five years through to March
2003 at 10 Downing Street, most recently as Head of Corporate
Communications. He also edited the Government annual report,
worked on the presentation of policies on crime, welfare, regions,
transport and the countryside, and played a significant role
in re-branding government in the United Kingdom. He now works
freelance, as well as being the director of a new Masters course
in Political Communication, Advocacy and Campaigning at Kingston
University. This course, the first of its kind to be offered
by a British University, reflects the fact that political communication
is a central feature of mature democracies and aims to demystify
spin, expose the hidden aspects of contemporary politics and
improve the quality of political debate. |
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Jake Lynch
Jake Lynch is an experienced international
reporter in television and radio news. He was Sydney correspondent
for the Independent in 1998-9 and now works for the BBC in London.
Jake is also the author of Reporting the World, an ethical
checklist for the reporting of conflicts. He teaches MA courses
in media and conflict analysis at the universities of Sydney,
Australia, and Cardiff, Wales. |
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Patrick Mercer MP
Patrick Mercer is Member of Parliament
for Newark and Retford and also currently sits on the Defence
Select Committee. He has served in the military, including a
spell in Uganda and nine tours of Northern Ireland, achieving
the rank of Colonel. He obtained his OBE in 1997 for services
in Bosnia, having previously been Mentioned in Despatches, received
a Gallantry commendation and been awarded an MBE. He has worked
as an Instructor for the Army Staff College, lectured at Cranfield
University and been a member of the King's College London team
tasked with the design of government policy for East Timor in
2000. Patrick has also worked as a freelance journalist and
a radio journalist for the 'Today' programme on BBC Radio 4. |
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Sarah Norman
Sarah Norman trained as a Registered
Comprehensive Nurse. In 2000 she completed a BSc (Hons) Development
and Health in Disaster Management before travelling to Ethiopia
to work as the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer for Concern
Worldwide during the most recent food crisis. Following the
tragic events of 9/11, Sarah returned to university and completed
an MSc (by research) in Disaster Management on 'Co-ordination
of Emergency Management Strategies between First Responders
in London and Central Government'. She is currently a Health
Emergency Planning Adviser (HEPA) for the Health Protection
Agency in London. |
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Onora O'Neill
Dr Onora O'Neill (Baroness O'Neill
of Bengarve) studied philosophy, psychology and physiology at
Oxford, and went on to do a Harvard PhD. In 1992, she took up
her current post as the Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge
University. She writes on ethics and political philosophy, and
questions of international justice. Her books include Faces
of Hunger: An Essay on Poverty, Development and Justice
(1986), Constructions of Reason: Explorations of Kant's Practical
Philosophy (1989), Towards Justice and Virtue (1996),
Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics (2002) and A Question
of Trust: The BBC Reith Lectures, 2002 (2002). |
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John Oxford
John Oxford is Professor of Virology
at St. Bartholomew's and The Royal London School of Medicine
and Dentistry at the University of London. He is the co-author
of two standard texts on Influenza and Virology and has published
more than 250 scientific papers. John took part in the famous
expedition to Spitsbergen, on the Norwegian island of Svalbard,
to uncover the bodies of a group of miners who'd died in the
1918-20 flu epidemic. He is interested in the link between flu
and encephalitis lethargic, a condition which causes victims
to sink into a comatose state. |
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Ross H. Pastel PhD
Dr Ross Pastel (Lieutenant Colonel,
US Army, Medical Service Corps) received his commission in the
US Army in 1986. He is a graduate of Harvard College and the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He presently serves as
the Chief of the Education and Training Department, in the Operational
Medicine Division at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute
of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID). He is responsible for USAMRIID's
"Medical Management of Biological Casualties" course.
In 2000, he organized and chaired the International Conference
on the Operational Impact of Psychological Casualties from Weapons
of Mass Destruction. |
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Tom Picton Phillipps
Tom Picton Phillipps is the Acting
Programme Director at the Emergency Planning College in York.
The Emergency Planning College is situated at the heart of Government,
within the Civil Contingencies Secretariat (CCS) of the Cabinet
Office. On leaving school Tom was commissioned in the Royal
Navy. He was admitted as a solicitor in 1978 and worked in private
practice in Liverpool and Leeds until 1994. Tom joined the college
in 1996, and gained an MBA from the Open University in 1997. |
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The Rt Hon Nick Raynsford
MP
The Rt Hon Wyvill Richard Nicolls
Raynsford MP is the Minister of State for Local Government and
the Regions Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. He has been
a Member of Parliament for Greenwich & Woolwich since 1997.
He became the Minister of State for Local Government and the
Regions at the Department for Transport, Local Government and
the Regions (DTLR) after being Parliamentary Under-Secretary
of State and then Minister of State for Housing & Planning
at the former Department of the Environment, Transport and the
Regions (DETR) since October 1999. He was Shadow Minister for
Housing and Construction from 1994 and front bench spokesperson
for London from 1993. |
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Nick Robinson
Nick Robinson is Political Editor
for ITV News, having previously been Chief Political Correspondent
for BBC News 24. Nick reports across all of ITV's News programmes.
While at the BBC, Nick presented Straight Talk, a review
of the political week; One to One, a feature interview
with a leading political figure and BBC2's Westminster Live.
Before joining News 24, Nick was the presenter of Late Night
Live and Weekend Breakfast on BBC Radio Five Live.
He was previously deputy editor of Panorama and On
the Record. |
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Gregory Saathoff MD
Gregory B. Saathoff is Associate Professor
of Research in Psychiatric Medicine at the University of Virginia's
School of medicine, and Executive Director of the University
of Virginia's Critical Incident Analysis Group. Since 1996,
Greg has also served as the Conflict Resolution Specialist to
the FBI's Critical Incident Response Group. In this role he
consults with the Crisis Negotiation Unit and the National Centre
for the Analysis of Violent Crime. |
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Richard Sambrook
Richard Sambrook has been the Director
of BBC News since 2001. He is responsible for all news and current
affairs programmes and services across Radio, TV and online.
He joined the BBC in 1980 as a radio news sub-editor. Since
then he has worked across a wide range of radio and TV programmes
and on location for many major news events. He has been Deputy
Editor of the Nine O'Clock News, News Editor, Head of Newsgathering
and Acting Director of Sport. He has a BA from Reading University
and an MSc from London University. |
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Susan Scholefield
Susan Scholefield joined the Ministry
of Defence in 1981. Recent appointments include Executive Director
and Senior Finance Officer at the Defence Procurement Agency
and Head of the Balkans Secretariat at the Ministry of Defence.
In November 1995 she led the Defence team in the UK Delegation
to the proximity talks at Dayton, Ohio. While on secondment
to the Northern Ireland Office, Susan served as Head of Security
Policy and Operations Division. She became a Companion of the
Order of St Michael and St George in the 1999 New Year's Honours. |
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Arieh Shalev MD
Professor Arieh Shalev was born in
Israel and earned his medical degree from the University of
Montpellier in France. He is currently Chair of the Department
of Psychiatry at Hadassah University Hospital, and is the founding
Director of the Centre for Traumatic Stress at the Hadassah
University Hospital in Jerusalem. He is also the editor and
co-founder of Sihot 'Dialogue', in the Israel Journal of Psychotherapy.
Arieh's research concerns post-traumatic stress disorders in
adults, its etiology, duration and treatment. |
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Nancy Snow
Nancy Snow is Assistant Professor
in the College of Communications at California State University,
Fullerton (CSUF) and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Annenberg
School for Communication, University of Southern California.
From 1990 to 1995 she lectured in intercultural communication,
global communications, and peace and conflict resolution at
American University's School of International Service. She served
most recently as a public diplomacy adviser to the US Advisory
Commission on Public Diplomacy and U.S. Senate Foreign Relations
Committee overseeing changes in U.S. public diplomacy legislation
since 9/11. |
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Norman Solomon
Norman Solomon is a US-based syndicated
columnist on media and politics. He is the founder and executive
director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, a national consortium
of policy researchers and analysts. Trained as a journalist,
Norman has written several books assessing media spin and techniques
of managing public perceptions. In 1999, a collection of his
columns won the George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution
to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language. Norman's op-ed articles
have appeared in the Washington Post, Los Angeles
Times, Newsday, New York Times, Boston
Globe, Miami Herald, USA Today, International
Herald Tribune and the Jordan Times. |
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Jim Stuart-Black
Jim Stuart-Black works as the Emergency
Planning & Security Manager for one of London's largest
Boroughs. In 2002, he completed a BA (Hons) International Disaster
Management degree, encompassing a year at the Fire Service College.
He began his current position during his final year at University
and has recently undertaken CBRN consultancy work within the
health sector. Jim is currently involved in the writing of a
new handbook for emergency planners within the health sector
due to be published later this year. |
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Philip M. Taylor
Philip M. Taylor is Professor of International
Communications and Director of the Institute of Communications
Studies at the University of Leeds. He is also Chairman of the
Inter University History Film Consortium, and a Fellow of the
Royal Historical Society. From 1983-4 he was a Visiting Professor
of Political Science and History at Vanderbilt University in
Nashville, Tennessee and, on his return, was promoted to Senior
Lecturer in International History in 1987. In 1990 he was initially
seconded to serve as Deputy Director of the newly-created Institute
of Communications Studies and became Director of the Institute
in 1998. |
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Pat Troop MD
Dr Pat Troop has a wealth of experience
in both public health medicine and senior management. Before
taking up her appointment as Chief Executive of the Health Protection
Agency, she was the Deputy Chief Medical Officer at the Department
of Health, with special responsibility for public health. Her
early career was in clinical medicine and she has worked as
a public health professional since 1975, both in the north west
of England and with Cambridge Health Authority. She was Regional
Director of public health from 1994 to 1999. |
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John Wadham
John Wadham is a solicitor and has
been the Director of Liberty (the National Council for Civil
Liberties) since 1995. He has acted for large numbers of applicants
in cases before the Commission and Court of Human Rights. He
is the editor of Your Rights: The Liberty Guide; the
civil liberties section of the Penguin Guide to the Law;
the caselaw reports for the European Human Rights Law Review;
the author of Blackstone's Guide to the Human Rights
Act 1998 and Blackstone's Guide to the Freedom of Information
Act 2000. |
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Simon Wessely
Simon Wessely is professor of psychological
medicine at the Institute of Psychiatry and King's College London.
He directs the Gulf War Illness Research Unit. He is the author
of over 300 scientific publications, many dealing with various
aspects of military health, and has a particular interest in
unexplained syndromes and post-conflict health. |
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Giles York
Giles York joined Kent Police in
1990 and is now a Detective Superintendent in the Intelligence
and Investigation function. The majority of his career has been
in the front line of policing with extensive experience of incident
command at an operational and strategic level. This has included
Public Order, Firearms and CBRN Command. He currently has critical
responsibility for the Kent Police preparation and response
to acts of terrorism. His remit also includes the broader issues
of border controls and illegal immigration, being significant
issues with Kent's unique 'Gateway to Europe' position. |
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