Presidential address: A global perspective on science and technology

Science

Volumn 322, Issue 5901, 2008, Pages 544-551

  Baltimore, David ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS VACCINE; MALARIA VACCINE;

GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; BIOLOGY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; ELECTION; GENE THERAPY; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MALARIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENCE; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES;

ACADEMIES AND INSTITUTES; AFRICA; AIDS VACCINES; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CHINA; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EUROPE; HUMANS; INDIA; INTERNATIONALITY; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (U.S.); POLITICS; RESEARCH; SCIENCE; TECHNOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 54949088985     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1166647     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (6)

1. T. L. Friedman, The World Is Flat (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 2005).
2. Science Debate 2008 worked with Scientists and Engineers for America, the AAAS, the National Academies, the Council on Competitiveness, and other organizations to craft the top 14 questions the candidates should answer. Their answers can be found at www.sciencedebate2008.com/www/index.php?id=42.
3. The 1995 Nobel Peace Prize was jointly awarded to Joseph Rotblat and to the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms. Today, the Pugwash mission is to bring scientific insight and reason to bear on threats to human security arising from science and technology, and particularly the threats to humanity posed by nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction (www.pugwash.org/).
4. Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future (National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 2007).
5. P. Khanna, "Waiving goodbye to hegemony,"New York Times Magazine (27 January 2008).
6. The Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative aims to address the health problems that disproportionately affect the world's poorest people and was built on the assumption that with greater encouragement and funding, contemporary science and technology can remove some of the obstacles to more rapid progress (www.gcgh.org/Pages/default.aspx).