Health Protection Agency

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Health Protection Agency

• Howard S. Tranter
• Business Development Manager
• Centre for Emergency Preparedness Response
• Health Protection Agency
• Porton Down, Salisbury, Wilts, UK

1 March 2005
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What is the Health Protection Agency?The
Health Protection Agency (HPA) is an independent
body set up in 2003 with responsibility for
protecting the health and well-being of everyone
living in England and Wales by

• Prevention and control of infectious diseases
• Reducing the adverse effects of chemical,
• microbiological and radiological hazards
• Preparing for potential or emerging threats

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Core Functions of the Health Protection Agency

• Its core functions are
• To identify and respond to health hazards
• To anticipate and prepare for emerging and
  future threats
• To alert and advise the public and government on
  health
• protection
• To provide specialist health protection services
• To support others in their health protection
  roles

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The Health Protection Agency provides a
fully-integrated approach to protecting Public
Health
National Poisons Information Service
National Radiological Protection Board
National Focus for Chemical Incidents
Public Health Laboratory Service - CDSC, CPHL
Centre for Applied Microbiology Research
NHS infectious disease emergency planning
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HPA National Centres
Centre for Emergency Preparedness Response
Central Office
Centre for Infection
Centre for Radiological, Chemical and
Environmental Hazards
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HPA consists of Local and Regional Laboratories
and National Centres,
SW Region Centre for Emergency Preparedness
Response Regional Office Gloucester Royal
Hospital HPUs Avon Cornwall/Scilly
Isles Gloucestershire Devon Somerset Wiltshire Dor
set
FWE Food, Water Environment
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Centre for Emergency Preparedness Response
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Centre for Emergency Preparedness Response
HPA Strategic Response
Improve preparedness of response to health
protection emergencies, including emerging
infectious disease and threats by deliberate
release
Nature TB Meningitis, Influenza SARS, MRSA, HIV
Bioterrorism Anthrax, Plague, Botulinum,
Smallpox, Tularemia, Q Fever
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Centre for Emergency Preparedness Response
Risk Assessment
Disease surveillance Horizon Scanning Microbial
Risk Assessment Modelling with mapping and
demographics
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Centre for Emergency Preparedness Response
Training

• Comprehensive training of GPs, NHS staff and
  healthcare professionals
• Exercises to test the Health Services response to
  serious outbreaks of disease, chemical disasters
  or bioterrorist attacks

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Centre for Emergency Preparedness Response
Analysis

• Detection and testing
• Epidemiology
• Containment Microbiology

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Centre for Emergency Preparedness Response
Manufacture

Vaccine and therapeutic product development In
house and contract process development GMP
Manufacture of licensed and clinical trial
products
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Centre for Emergency Preparedness Response A
Biodefence Resource
CEPR SERVICES Contract RD GMP
manufacture Animal cell culture Bacterial
fermenation High containment microbiology Biosecur
ity Intellectual property Diagnostics Consulting M
odelling
CUSTOMERS Private sector DVC, Emergent
BioSolutions, VaxGen UK Government DoH, MoD,
US Government DoD JVAP, NIAID/NIH, CDC Atlanta

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Conclusions

• A more dangerous world requires new approaches
• Co-ordination
• emergency planning
• expertise in emerging diseases threats
• Public/Private sector partnerships are more
  important than ever