Public Health Preparedness and Response in Crisis

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Public Health Preparedness and Response in Crisis

• ___________________________
• JD Givens
• Office of Research and Methodology
• Centers for Disease Control
• National Center for Health Statistics
• Interface 2003 Conference, March 14, 2003

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WHAT IS THE PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM?

• Bioterrorism proved to be a significant public
  health
• threat during the Fall of 2001 when Anthrax
• outbreaks occurred in the United States using
  the
• mail as a source of exposure.

• Response to a bioterrorism event requires rapid
• deployment of limited public health resources
  in order to
• save lives and prevent others from becoming
  ill.

• The nation's public health infrastructure
  currently is not
• adequate to detect and respond to a large
  scale bioterrorist
• event.

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Managing the BT Preparedness Initiative is
complex at CDC
Source Kane Hall, Univ. of Washington 11/2001
PPT
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Secretary's Council on Public Health Preparedness
DA Henderson -Chairman
Purpose advises the Secretary and the
department on appropriate actions to prepare for
and respond to public health emergencies,
including acts of bioterrorism.
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Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public
Health Emergency Preparedness
Jerome Hauer -Director
Mission The Office of Public Health Preparedness
(OPHP) shall direct the Department of Health and
Human Services' efforts to prepare for, protect
against, respond to, and recover from all acts of
bioterrorism and other public health emergencies
that affect the civilian population and shall
serve as the focal point within HHS for these
activities.
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Office of Global Health Affairs
Mission To promote the health of the world's
population by Advancing the Department of Health
and Human Services'global strategies and
partnerships, thus serving the health of the
people of the United States.
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PH Emergency Preparedness and Response
URL http//www.bt.cdc.gov/planning/index.asp
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PH Emergency Preparation and Planning
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Smallpox Preparedness and Response
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Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Program
(Centers for Disease Control)
Mission ensure the rapid development of federal,
state, and local capacity to address potential
bioterrorism events. The program integrates
planning and training to facilitate the
development of core capacities in the primary
elements of public health preparedness,
including surveillance, epidemiology, rapid
laboratory diagnosis, emergency response, and
communications systems.
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Centers for Public Health Preparedness
URL http//www.bt.cdc.gov/training/CPHPlocations.
asp
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Centers for Public Health Preparedness

• develop competency-based public health practice
  curricula
• technology-mediated learning (e-learning)
• certification and credentialing
• applied research and evaluation.

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Millions of clinical workers to get smallpox
information packets
Mar 4, 2003 (CIDRAP News) CDC announced its
plan as part of an ongoing education effort
program, information packets about smallpox is
being mailed to 3.5M physicians and other
healthcare workers.
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Council on Private Sector Initiatives (CPSI)
Mission To ensure public health preparedness
and the preparedness, security, safety, and
quality of the health care delivery system.

• Objectives
• Provide the private sector with a single DHHS
  point
• of contact for innovative ideas that cut
  across agencies
• and departments.
• 2. Coordinate requests from individuals and
  firms seeking HHS
• review of their ideas.
• Ensure that HHS responds systematically and
  consistently to
• these requests.
• Report to the Secretary on the Councils
  activities and actions
• resulting from them.

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Local Centers for Public Health Preparedness
NACCHO, in collaboration with CDC, has been
tasked with analyzing the lessons learned from
the local Centers during the project period, and
disseminating these lessons and best practices to
the broader public health community.
The Local Centers for Public Health Preparedness
project was developed to create models for
implementing information technology and training
in support of bioterrorism preparedness and
emergency response.
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Mission The Center for Civilian Biodefense
Strategies is an independent, non-profit
organization of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public Health and the School of
Medicine. The Center works to prevent the
development and use of biological weapons,
to catalyze advances in science and governance
that diminish the power of biological weapons as
agents of mass lethality, and to lessen the
human suffering that would result if prevention
fails.
URL http//www.hopkins-biodefense.org/
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Multi-Sector Crisis Management Consortium
(MSCMC)
Mission The mission of the Consortium is to
advance the research, development, knowledge,
and application of information technology for
crisis management and emergency response among
government agencies, academia and the private
sector.
Priority is given to support communication and
collaboration among people from all sectors of
society on the applications of information
technology to meet the critical needs of crisis
management.
The work of the Consortium is supported by the
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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The National Technology Grid
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Crisis
What is a crisis?
Extreme events that cause significant disruption
and put lives and property at risk - situations
distinct from business as usual. These include
civilian and judicial crises management, e.g.,
natural and man-made disasters including such
threats as the use of weapons of mass destruction
by terrorists (nuclear and biomedical
and chemical attacks).
Source National Research Councils 1999 Workshop
on Information Technology Research for Crisis
Management
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Contact Information
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention National Center for Health Statistics
(NCHS) Office of Research and Methodology 3311
Toledo Rd., Rm 3218 Hyattsville, Maryland
20782 JDG_at_CDC.GOV 301.458.4236