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May 2004
Severe weather warning: Communicating danger and disaster
March 2004
Climate change: its impact on UK business and the economy
Speakers at this forum included:
Severe weather warning: Communicating danger and disaster
- Ewen McCallum, Chief Meteorologist, the Met Office
- David Faichney, Leader of the Flood Warning Development Team, Scottish Environment Protection Agency
- Irene Lorenzoni, Centre for Environmental Risk, University of East Anglia
March 2004
Climate change: its impact on UK business and the economy
Speakers at this forum included:
- Jonathan Hearth, Marketing Director, the Met Office
- Dr Andrew Dlugolecki, Climate Research Unit, University of East Anglia
- Kay Jenkinson, Communications Manager, UK Climate Impacts Programme
View Climate Change and Business SPA Forum report
June 2003
The X Factor: Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome
Speakers at this forum included:
- Dr Nick Wareham, Wellcome Trust senior fellow, Cambridge University
- Dr Susan Jebb, Head of Nutrition and Health Research, Medical Research Council Human Nutrition Research Centre and a state registered dietician
- Professor Peter Kopelman, Barts & The London, Queen Mary, University of London
February 2003
Testing times for medicine: Genetics and the search for safer drugs
Speakers at this forum included:
- Sir Michael Rawlins, National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE)
- Professor Robert Kerwin, Institute of Psychiatry
- Dr Paul Martin, University of Nottingham
Chris Friend, Genetics Interest Group
View Pharmacogenetics SPA Forum report
This report was submitted to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics as part of their consultation on pharmacogenetics.
