Recent Speaking Engagements

“How to Talk to Policy Makers to Encourage the Development and Implementation of Biosafety Guidelines,” African Biological Safety Association (AfBSA); Annual AfBSA Biological Safety Conference – Johannesburg, South Africa

“Implementing Standards for Countries and Institutions,” African Biological Safety Association (AfBSA); Annual AfBSA Biological Safety Conference – Johannesburg, South Africa

“The Importance of International Biosafety Societies to Face Global Challenges,” National Association of Biosafety and Biosecurity (AnBio), Brazil; VII Brazilian Biosafety Congress – Joinville, Santa Caterina, Brazil

“Challenges and Suggestions for Sustainable Biosafety and Biosecurity Capacity in Low Resource Countries,” US National Academies of Science, Committee on International Security and Arms Control, “Anticipating Biosecurity Challenges of the Global Expansion of High Containment Biological Research Laboratories” workshop – Istanbul, Turkey

“Update: IFBA 2011 – The Year of Building International Biosafety Communities,” Chesapeake Area Biological Safety Association (ChABSA); Scientific Symposium – Frederick, Maryland

“Raising the Posture of International Biosafety,” Mexican Biosafety and Biosecurity Association; Annual Biosafety and Biosecurity Symposium – Mexico City, Mexico

“Global Biosafety & Biosecurity Challenges: Options for Nations with Limited Resources,” Biosafety Association of Central Asia and the Caucasus (BACAC); Annual Meeting – Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

“The International Federation of Biosafety Associations,” Chesapeake Area Biological Safety Association (ChABSA); Scientific Symposium – College Park, Maryland

“Biosafety 101 – Biosecurity and Biosafety: Principles and Practices,” Canadian Science Centre for Human and Animal Health; Winnipeg, Canada

“Biosecurity Concepts and Strategies” module
“Risk Assessment” module
“Biological Safety Cabinets” module

“Biosafety: Options for Resource Limited Nations,” Asia Pacific Biosafety Association (APBA); Annual Meeting – Seoul, South Korea

“Biosafety Association Workshop”, International Federation of Biosafety Associations (IFBA) – Seoul, South Korea

National Association of Biosafety and Biosecurity (AnBio), Brazil; Brazilian Biosafety Congress – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Biosafety Association of Central Asia and the Caucasus (BACAC); Annual Meeting – Almaty, Kazakhstan

“The International Biological Safety Working Group (IBWG),” Asia Pacific Biosafety Association (APBA); Annual Meeting – Manila, Philippines

“The International Biological Safety Working Group (IBWG),” Biosafety Association of Central Asia and the Caucasus (BACAC); Annual Meeting – Almaty, Kazakhstan

“The International Biological Safety Working Group (IBWG),” Asia Pacific Biosafety Association (APBA); Annual Meeting – Manila, Philippines

Biological Weapons Threat Agent Detection and Response (TADR) Network – Central Asian Workshop; US Defense Threat Reduction Agency; Almaty, Kazakhstan and Tashkent, Uzbekistan

“Biosafety and the Methods for Ensuring Personnel Reliability in U.S. Laboratories,” Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Biological Weapons Proliferation Prevention Program Annual Conference; Garmish, Germany

Hood College – Frederick, Maryland

Dana-Farber Cancer Center – Boson, Massachusetts

Harvard University, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology – Boson, Massachusetts

Harvard University Medical School – Boson, Massachusetts

The National Institutes of Health – Bethesda, Maryland

Vanderbilt University Cancer Center – Nashville, Tennessee

Vanderbilt University Medical School – Nashville, Tennessee

U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, 1994

Walter Reed Army Institute of Research – Bethesda, Maryland