Our audience will be made up of government, industry, thinktank and academic representatives, policy professionals and those from the public sector.
The work is based upon empirical analysis of biobanks based in Canada, Finland, Iceland, Spain, the UK and the USA over two years that collated interviews with biobank representatives, policy makers and regulators as well as documentary evidence.
The GLF serves as a platform for bringing researchers, indigenous community representatives, policy makers, development cooperation, NGO's, private sector and others together to embrace that complexity and find ways not only to understand it, but to make it work better.
On hand for the discussions are government delegates, UN agency representatives, policy makers, members of national and international non-governmental organizations, civil society leaders and human rights advocates.
The first phase, now underway, includes the development of the decision support tool and review by expert practitioners, and our key stakeholder interest groups including decision scientists, patient advocacy representatives, policy makers, and patients living with RFA.
The two day interactive meeting brought together leading opinion leaders from Canadian and global stakeholders in vaccine and adjuvant research; academic and government researchers, clinicians, industry representatives, policy makers, and funding agencies (Table 1, participant list).
What do you get when CEOs, business executives, investors, NGO representatives, policy-makers, academics, and two spiritual guides, from the first world, third world, BRICS and EMICs converge for a three-day meeting on a lake in Switzerland?
Health practitioners, manufacturers and/or suppliers of drugs and medical equipment, consumer representatives, policy-makers, researchers and the like clearly need to be 'at the table'.
Mr Klein, an American, is his deputy.The high representative urges policy on the Bosnian government.
Mr. Mitchell, 47, who has deep experience in Asia, was sworn in last October as the administration's special representative and policy coordinator for Burma.
