International Avian Flus Conference, to be held Cambridge, MA November , 2006

该奖项支持将在哈佛大学举行的禽流感跨学科讲习班。该讲习班由来自医学人类学、公共卫生和政治学领域的科学家召集，他们在疾病的社会和医学流行病学以及国际卫生政策方面拥有丰富的经验。重点将放在寻求整合生物、文化、社会、政治、经济和农业观点的生物社会框架上。讲习班将汇集各领域的专家，审查禽流感现象的地方和全球层面以及世界范围流行病的社会后果。讲习班的参加者将包括病毒学、流行病学、农学、动物科学、社会和文化人类学、政治学、历史以及社会和卫生政策等领域的初级和高级学者。学者将来自美国各地的许多机构，以及中国、泰国、越南、土耳其和欧洲。研讨会的目标是：1。从了解华南、泰国、越南和其他亚洲社会鸡、鸭、鹅和猪的集约养殖的生活经验开始，对导致禽流感和其他流感感染及其传播的生物社会问题提供一个综合的、跨学科的观点。2 .更好地了解社会在应对亚洲流感时所面临的体制和政府问题，如果H5N1禽流感毒株或其他流感病毒成为流行病，这些问题将在未来以更加紧迫的方式面临。为了更好地理解如果流行病以高死亡率和发病率发生对社会的社会和政治后果。更好地了解亚洲流感的来源和应对方面的文化、政治、制度、专业和经济差异。

This award supports an interdisciplinary workshop on avian influenzas to be held at Harvard University. The workshop is being convened by scientists from the fields of medical anthropology, public health, and political science, who have a wealth of experience with social and medical epidemiology of disease and international health policy. Emphasis will be on a biosocial framework that seeks to integrate biological, cultural, social, political, economic and agricultural perspectives. The workshop will bring together specialists across various fields to examine the local and global dimensions of the Avian flus phenomenon and the social consequences of a worldwide pandemic. Workshop participants will include junior and senior scholars in the fields of virology, epidemiology, agronomy, animal science, social and cultural anthorpology, political science,history, and social and health policy. Scholars will come from many institutions across the United States, as well as China, Thailand, Vietnam, Turkey, and Europe.The workshop's objectives are:1. To provide an integrative, cross-disciplinary look at biosocial issues that contribute to avian and other influenza infections and their spread, beginning with an undertanding of the lived experience of intensive husbandry of chickens, ducks, geese, and swine in South China, Thailand, Vietnam, and other Asian societies.2. To better underestand the institutional and governmental issues that have faced societies in responding to Asian flus and will face them in an even more pressing way in the future if the H5N1 strain of avian flu, or some other flu virus, becomes pandemic.3. To better understand the social and political consequences for societies should pendmic occur with high mortality and morbidity.4. To better understand cultural, political, institutional, professional, and economic differences in the sources of and responses to Asian flus.