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Pandemic Flu Summit - May 16, 2006
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Summit Agenda
7:45 – 8:15
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Registration |
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8:15 – 8:20
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Welcome and
Introductions |
Jim Robey County Executive |
8:20 –
8:35 |
Summit
Content/Objectives |
Rich Krieg,
PhD CERN Chairman |
8:35 –
8:55 |
Pandemic Flu
Primer |
Penny Borenstein,
MD, MPH County Health Officer |
9:00 -10:00
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Community Impacts Panel
Panel Objective: Provide the context of the local progression of a pandemic including potential system breakdowns and how the community may respond to and be affected by the event. |
Michael Greenberger, JD, Director of the Center for Health and Homeland Security, University of Maryland Jack Long, Director, Innovative Emergency Management (IEM) Sid Baccam, PhD, Computational Epidemiologist, Innovative Emergency Management (IEM) |
10:05 –
11:00 |
Family and Community
Resilience Panel Panel Objective: Present information on how families and local communities can respond to and function in a pandemic of six to eight weeks duration. |
George S. Everly, PhD, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University John Clizbe, PhD, Chief of Emergency Planning, City of Alexandria, Virginia Anne Towne, Executive Director, Association of Community Services |
11:05 –
noon |
Community Continuity
Panel Panel Objective: Provide an overview of issues that government, business, schools and non-profit organizations will need to address to ensure that critical functions continue during extended pandemic conditions. |
Dick Story, Chief Executive Officer, Howard County Economic Development Authority Eric Holdeman, Director of the King County, Washington Office of Emergency Management Richard Bissell, PhD, Emergency Health Services, University of Maryland, Baltimore County |
12:05 –
1:00 |
Lunch |
Michael Osterholm, PhD, Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, International expert on flu pandemic |
1:05 –
1:45 |
Ethical and Justice
Issues Panel objective: Identify ethical challenges and trade offs inherent in decision-making about scarce community resources under pandemic conditions |
Nancy Kass, ScD, Johns Hopkins University Bioethics Institute, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Monica Shoch-Spana, PhD, Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh |
1:50 –
2:50 |
The Public Health
Response: A Local, State and National Perspective |
Penny Borenstein,
MD, MPH County Health Officer Representative from Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene |
2:50 – 3:00
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Concluding
Remarks |
Rich Krieg, PhD CERN Chairman |