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Pandemic Flu Summit - May 16, 2006

A community-wide summit was held on May 16, 2006 to discuss issues Howard County might likely face in the event of a flu pandemic. Local, national and international experts spoke to community leaders in attendance. Below are photos, as well as the agenda, from the event.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 













Summit Agenda

7:45 – 8:15
Registration

8:15 – 8:20
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
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.


Henry Taylor
, MD, MPH, Department of Health Policy & Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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
Concluding Remarks
Rich Krieg, PhD
CERN Chairman
 

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