Publication Type: Poster
Abstract: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), based in Atlanta, Georgia, is the nation’s lead public health agency for the prevention and control of disease, injury, and disability. The agency maintains a full prevention and health promotion research and practice agenda that includes the prevention of infectious diseases, chronic diseases, injuries, workplace hazards, and birth defects and disabilities, in addition to protection from environmental hazards such as lead and other toxic substances. It also promotes healthy behaviors and lifestyle choices. CDC employs scientists from a variety of disciplines including those from the behavioral and social sciences. Each of these disciplines brings a unique perspective to the study and conduct of public health which contributes to CDC’s mission overall. Information will be available regarding current job opportunities, postgraduate training, the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS), and funding opportunities.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Internet identity theft has increased in recent years. According to some estimates, in the UK only identity fraud currently costs £1.7 billion per year, compared with £1.3 billion in 2002 (The Home Office, 2006). The Internet facilitates identity theft by generating more opportunities for crime because Internet identification is based only on two of “three factor authentications”: something you know and something you have. According to the situational crime prevention approach, the use of technology, in this case biometric measures, opens up new vistas for prevention (Clarke, 1997). The paper provides an example of the use of biometrics for authentication, adding the third factor of authentication, something you are, thereby considerably reducing opportunities for identity theft. Following the situational crime prevention approach, the paper extends to the virtual world some biometric measures effectively used in the real world, also considering both the feasibility of this kind of measure and the ethical issues that it raises.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Child soldiering has a variable impact on the way internal conflicts occurred and are shaped. Children are invisible soldiers who can cross boundaries, disappear and reappear later without any control. This participates to the decentralisation of conflicts as well as their extension in time. Child combatants are not easy to demobilise, especially girls, because they are not suspected to be soldiers. These children are a threat for the instauration of peace. First because they help warlords to go on with their fights, and second because it means that a whole generation of children considers violence as a means to survive. Two factors have also been recognised to be related to the phenomenon of child soldiers and to the increase in internal conflicts: the proliferation of light weapons and the development of private security arrangements. Those questions need to be treated in a global and transregional manner if conflicts are to be avoided. This paper will aim at first presenting the transversal relations between child soldiering and the emergence of violent conflicts and second at proposing some solutions to prevent this phenomenon.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Preventing the use of nuclear weapons by terrorists and the spread of nuclear weapons to additional states remains on paper the top threat facing the United States and European states. The willingness of states to commit to the cause of non-proliferation and nuclear security, and to commit the resources necessary to succeed differ among different states in large part due to the divergent threat that states feel from nuclear dangers. The proximity of states to proliferation-prone regions, the likelihood of a state being the object of a nuclear threat, and the consequences of such an attack all affect the perceived dangers states see in the spread of nuclear capabilities.The case of Iran has demonstrated a basic level of shared threat perception within the trans-Atlantic community. However, it is not clear how far this shared perception goes, and to what extent domestic and regional factors may influence the use of tools that may be needed to prevent Iran's nuclear ambitions from succeeding. This paper will examine the case of Iran as a case study in how key states in Europe and the United States perceive the danger posed by state proliferation, and review the existing government postures toward nuclear terrorism, both in terms of their perceive threat and responses to date.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: In 2003 it was estimated that the number of female sex workers (FSWs) in China exceeded ten million. The sexually transmitted infection (STI)/HIV risk facing FSWs in China is of particular concern to researchers because of the high prevalence of STI and the lack of condom use among this population. Prostitution is an offence against public order in China and is regulated by administrative law. Venues for commercial sex are closed down by police raids in periodic "strike-hard" anti-prostitution campaigns. The Administrative Punishment Act, which is the responsibility of the Public Security Bureau, provides for administrative detention of sellers and purchasers of sexual services for up to 15 days, a fine, or detention for up to four years in re-education-through-labour centres. Based on field visits to 171 entertainment venues, in-depth interviews with 47 female sex workers, and a survey of 200 sex workers in south western China, this paper discusses the implications of the legal treatment of prostitution on the daily operations of FSWs and HIV prevention work in China.