Department of Homeland Security Bioterrorism Risk Assessment: A Call for Change

3:00	Branch Probabilities and Uncertainty Management	Mr. Rob Carnell, Battelle
	Atmospheric (Outdoor) Dispersion Modeling	Ms. Mary Shell, Battelle
	Indoor Aerosol Dispersion Modeling	Dr. Brian Hawkins, Battelle
	Medical Mitigation and Epidemiological Modeling	Ms. Traci Hale and Dr. Nancy McMillan, Battelle
	Food and Water Contamination Modeling	Mr. Jon David Sears, Battelle
	Risk Calculation Engine	Mr. Rob Carnell, Battelle
5:30 p.m.	Reception

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Data-Gathering Session Open to the Public

9:30 a.m.	Updates and Planned Changes for the 2008 Bioterrorism Risk Assessment	DHS/NBACC, Battelle Staff
10:45	Break

Closed Session (Committee Members and NRC Staff Only)

11:00 a.m.
4:00 p.m.	Adjourn

NOVEMBER 19-20, 2006

Sunday, November 19, 2006

Closed Session (Committee Members and NRC Staff Only)

8:00 a.m.

Data-Gathering Session Open to the Public

10:30 a.m.	Break
11:00	Manufactured Bioagents	Prof. Stephen Morse, Director, Center for Public Health Preparedness at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
12:00 noon	Lunch
1:00 p.m.	Emerging Methods for Handling Large Degrees of Uncertainty	Dr. Alyson Wilson, Technical Staff Member, Statistician and Technical Lead, Department of Defense Programs, Los Alamos National Laboratory
2:00	Strategies for Adversarial Risk Analysis	Prof. David Banks, Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences, Duke University
2:30	Frequentist Approach to Risk Analysis	Prof. Tapan Nayak, Department of Statistics, George Washington University
3:30	Break