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Bioterrorism

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    • - (Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress) - Congressional Research Service Report for Congress that addresses the use of biological weapons against agriculture.
    • Biodefense and Related Programs - (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH (NIAID)) - Includes biodefense-related information for biomedical researchers, the public, and the media.
    • CDC - Bioterrorism - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)) - Information on bioterrorism agents and links to resources targeted to health professionals or the general public.
    • Center for Biosecurity - (University of Pittsburgh) - Publications, resources, and news on bioterrorism preparedness and prevention.
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    • - (National Security Council, The White House (NSC)) - Comprehensive strategy that outlines the Federal Government's approach to reducing the risks of biological weapons proliferation and terrorism.
    • Potential Zoonotic Agents of Bioterrorism - (American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA)) - Journal articles from AVMA scientific journals about potential zoonotic agents of bioterrorism.
    • Protecting Workers from Anthrax Infection - (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, CDC (NIOSH)) - Fact Sheet that describes the NIOSH response to the anthrax attacks.
    • PubMed/MEDLINE Search and Smallpox Information Resources - (National Library of Medicine (NLM) U.S.) - Comprehensive PubMed search and links to other smallpox information resources.
    • Remembering 9/11 and Anthrax: Public Health's Vital Role in National Defense - (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), Trust for America's Health (TFAH)) - Report that features more than 30 firsthand, on-the-ground accounts of public health professionals who were directly involved in the response to the September 11, 2001 and anthrax tragedies.
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Emergency Response

    • AHRQ Disaster Response Tools and Resources - (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)) - Tools and resources that can be used during emergency events and natural disasters to assist in response and recovery efforts.
    • CDC Public Health Emergency Response Guide for State, Local, and Tribal Public Health Directors - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)) - All-hazards reference tool for health professionals who are responsible for initiating the public health response during the first 24 hours of an emergency or disaster.
    • Chemical Hazards Emergency Medical Management (CHEMM) - (Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, HHS (ASPR)) - Enables first responders, first receivers, other healthcare providers, and planners to plan for, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects of mass-casualty incidents involving chemicals.
    • Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) - (Citizen Corps) - The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Program educates people about disaster preparedness for hazards that may impact their area and trains them in basic disaster response skills, such as fire safety, light search and rescue, team organization, and disaster medical operations.
    • Disaster Information Management Research Center - (National Library of Medicine (NLM) U.S.) - The aim of the Disaster Information Management Research Center (DIMRC) is to provide access to quality disaster health information to the nation at all stages of preparation, response, mitigation and recovery.
    • Emergency Access Initiative (EAI) - (National Library of Medicine (NLM) U.S.) - EAI provides free access to full text articles from major biomedicine titles to healthcare professionals, librarians, and the public in the United States affected by disasters.
    • Emergency Response - (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, CDC (ATSDR)) - Resources compiled by ATSDR for use in responding to an emergency.
    • Emergency Response Guidebook - (U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)) - Provides guidance to first responders on how to identify the types of hazardous materials that may be involved in an incident and how to respond to the threats those materials might pose to emergency crews and the public.
    • Emergency Response Safety and Health Database - (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, CDC (NIOSH)) - The Emergency Response Safety and Health Database (ERSH-DB) is an occupational safety and health database developed by NIOSH for the emergency response community. The ERSH-DB contains accurate and concise information on high-priority chemical, biological and radiological agents that could be encountered by personnel responding to a terrorist event.
    • Emergency Severity Index (ESI) - (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)) - The ESI is a five-level emergency department triage algorithm that yields rapid, reproducible, and clinically relevant stratification of patients into five groups to allow patients to be categorized by both acuity and hospital resources.
    • Emergency System for Advance Registration of Volunteer Health Professionals (ESAR-VHP) - (Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) U.S.) - Federal program to support states and territories in establishing standardized volunteer registration programs for disasters and public health emergencies.
    • HHS - Public Health Emergency - (Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) U.S.) - Web portal to obtain information from all U.S. federal agencies involved in a public health emergency, a medical disaster, or the public health aspects of a natural or man-made disaster.
    • Hospital Surge Model - (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)) - Tool that estimates the hospital resources needed to treat casualties resulting from biological, chemical, foodborne, nuclear, radiological, or conventional attacks.
    • How to Lead During Bioattacks with the Public's Trust and Help. A Manual for Mayors, Govenors, and Top Health Officials - (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) U.S.) - How to Lead during Bioattacks provides government leaders with guidance on anticipating and averting governing pitfalls that arise during epidemics.
    • Medical Reserve Corps - (Office of the Surgeon General, HHS) - The Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) program establishes teams of local public health, medical and other volunteers to prepare for and respond to emergencies and promote healthy living throughout the year. MRC volunteers supplement existing emergency and public health resources.
    • National Veterinary Response Team (NVRT) - (Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, HHS (ASPR)) - The National Veterinary Response Team (NVRT) provides assistance in identifying the need for veterinary services following major disasters, emergencies, public health or other events requiring Federal support and in assessing the extent of disruption to animal and public health infrastructures.
    • Preparing for and Responding to Specific Hazards - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)) - Detailed information on specific biological and chemical agents, mass trauma, radiation, and other threats.
    • Public Health Management of Disasters: The Pocket Guide
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    • - (American Public Health Association (APHA)) - The Pocket Guide is intended to be a quick field resource for public health interventions in the days immediately preceding and following emergencies.
    • Public Health Preparedness and Response for Public Health Laboratories - (Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) U.S.) - The Emergency Preparedness and Response Program at APHL is committed to enhancing public health laboratory preparedness and response to emergencies such as terrorist acts, natural disasters and pandemic diseases.
    • Radiation Emergency Medical Management (REMM) - (Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) U.S.) - Provides guidance for health care providers, primarily physicians, about clinical diagnosis and treatment during mass casualty radiological/nuclear events. The just-in-time, evidence-based information is downloadable in advance, so that it can be available during an event if the Internet is not accessible.
    • Regionalization of Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response - (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)) - Report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    • Veterinary Medical Assistance Teams - (American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA)) - Veterinary Medical Assistance Teams (VMAT) serve as first responders to ensure high-quality care of animals during disasters and emergencies.
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Preparedness

    • Advanced Practice Centers (APC) Toolkit - (Advanced Practice Centers (APC), National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)) - Tools to help local health departments strengthen their bioterrorism planning and response capability.
    • AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange - Bioterrorism - (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)) - Innovations and quality tools to help public health officials and health care providers prepare for acts of bioterrorism.
    • AHRQ Public Health Emergency Preparedness Archived Web Conferences - (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)) - Archived webcasts on public health emergency preparedness topics.
    • Are You Ready? An in-depth Guide to Citizen Preparedness - (Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) U.S.) - Provides a step-by-step approach to disaster preparedness by walking the reader through how to get informed about local emergency plans, how to identify hazards that affect their local area, and how to develop and maintain an emergency communications plan and disaster supplies kit.
    • Biodefense publications - (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH (NIAID)) - Contains links to NIAID publications.
    • Bioterrorism Evidence Reports - (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)) - Evidence reports relevant to bioterrorism preparedness.
    • CDC Public Health Preparedness Reports - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)) - Publications on public health preparedness and emergency response including reports that examine progress and trends in emergency preparedness at national and state levels.
    • Children and Disasters, is your state prepared? - (National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL)) - Children represent nearly 25 percent of the population, yet, according to the National Commission on Children and Disasters, the unique needs of children often are overlooked or misunderstood in disaster planning and management.
    • Elements of Effective Bioterrorism Preparedness: A Planning Primer for Local Public Health Agencies (PDF) - (National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)) - A guide describing the public health functions required during a bioterrorism event or other public health emergency.
    • Emergency Preparedness for Business - (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, CDC (NIOSH)) - Contains links to assist businesses in developing a comprehensive plan for dealing with terrorism-related events including: specific instructions to building occupants, actions to be taken by facility management, and first responder notification procedures.
    • Emergency Preparedness Resource Inventory (EPRI) - (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)) - Tool to allow local or regional planners to assemble an inventory of critical resources that would be useful in responding to a bioterrorist attack. In addition to a Web-based software tool, EPRI includes an Implementation Report, a Technical Manual, and an Appendix.
    • Emergency Responder Preparedness
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    • - (Office for Domestic Preparedness (ODP) U.S.) - These guidelines are intended to be a tool for first responders seeking to improve their training.
    • FEMA - Emergency Managers and Personnel - (Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) U.S.) - Resources for emergency managers and personnel including situation reports, training, response and recovery resources, planning tools, best practices and other resources.
    • Getting Ready in Indian Country: Emergency Preparedness and Response for Native American Cultural Resources - Considers emergency preparedness specifically for Native American interests. Developed with support from the National Park Service and the Office of Environmental Policy and Compliance of the Department of the Interior, this new initiative is intended to advance emergency preparedness, stimulate discussion, and inspire new projects for the care and protection of tribal heritage.
    • Global Health Security Initiative (GHSI) - An informal, international partnership of like-minded countries to strengthen health preparedness and response globally to threats of biological, chemical, radio-nuclear terrorism (CBRN) and pandemic influenza.
    • Guidance for Filtration and Air-Cleaning Systems to Protect Building Environments - (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, CDC (NIOSH)) - Contains information on how to protect buildings from Airborne Chemical, Biological, or Radiological Attacks
    • Hospital Preparedness Exercises Resources - (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)) - These resources can help hospital preparedness exercise coordinators plan for, design and develop, conduct, evaluate, and improve hospital preparedness exercises.
    • Medical Reserve Corps - (Office of the Surgeon General, HHS) - The Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) program establishes teams of local public health, medical and other volunteers to prepare for and respond to emergencies and promote healthy living throughout the year. MRC volunteers supplement existing emergency and public health resources.
    • NACCHO's PPHR Toolkt - (National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)) - Tools and resources to prepare staff of local public health departments and public health regions to respond to emergencies and to protect the public's health.
    • National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT) - Information about terrorism prevention and responder preparedness. Resources include a terrorism bibliography, Lessons Learned Information Sharing System, Responder Knowledge Base and Terrorism Knowledge Base.
    • One Year After the Terrorist Attacks: Is Public Health Prepared? A Report Card from the American Public Health Association. - (American Public Health Association (APHA)) - This "report card" analysis examines the progress we have made to improve our public health readiness and highlights areas in need of additional attention.
    • PREP-inar Series: Emerging Issues in Public Health Preparedness - (National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)) - PREP-inar series presented by NACCHO's Public Health Preparedness Team include hot topics such as pandemic influenza, medical reserve corps, regional preparedness and more. Archived Preparedness Webinars are available.
    • Preparation and Planning - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)) - Preparedness information for health facilities, local governments, businesses, and others.
    • Preparedness Peer Assistance Network - (National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)) - The Preparedness Peer Assistance Network (PPAN) is a web-based referral service that pairs local health departments' (LHDs) emergency preparedness practitioners to subject matter experts in other LHDs for guidance and technical assistance on several topics related to preparedness.
    • Public Health Emergency Preparedness - (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)) - Research information, tools and resources, issue briefs, and evidence reports on public health preparedness.
    • Public Health Emergency Preparedness: Six Years of Achievement - (Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) U.S., Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE), National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)) - This report highlights the progress that has been made in state and local preparedness and response and identifies preparedness challenges facing public health departments.
    • Public Health Preparedness and Response Core Competency Model
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    • - (Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH)) - Final core competency model that provides a national framework for competency-based curricula and training and for performance benchmarks to measure public health preparedness and response.
    • Public Health Preparedness Newsletter - (Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)) - A monthly newsletter on hot topics in public health preparedness.
    • Public Health Preparedness: Mobilizing State by State - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)) - This report presents national data as well as state-specific snapshots for all 50 states on the progress that has been made in preparedness and response, identifies preparedness challenges facing public health departments, and outlines CDC's efforts to address those challenges.
    • RAND Center for Public Health Preparedness - (RAND Corporation USA) - The Public Health Preparedness Program conducts studies to evaluate, model, and enhance public health preparedness policy options for governmental officials at the state, local, and federal levels within the U.S., Public Health Ministries overseas, and for the private sector.
    • Ready or Not 2010? Protecting the Public from Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism - (Trust for America's Health (TFAH)) - 2010 report that provides state scores on 10 key indicators of public health preparedness. The scores reflect nearly 10 years of progress to improve how the nation prevents, identifies, and contains new disease outbreaks and bioterrorism threats and responds to the aftermath of natural disasters.
    • Ready or Not? Protecting the Public's Health from Disease, Disasters, and Bioterrorism, 2005 - (Trust for America's Health (TFAH)) - 2005 report of preparedness for major health emergencies that finds that both federal and state efforts must be accelerated in order to adequately protect the American people.
    • Ready or Not? Protecting the Public's Health from Disease, Disasters, and Bioterrorism, 2006 - (Trust for America's Health (TFAH)) - 2006 report that contains state-by-state health preparedness scores based on 10 key indicators to assess health emergency preparedness capabilities.
    • Ready or Not? Protecting the Public's Health from Disease, Disasters, and Bioterrorism, 2007 - (Trust for America's Health (TFAH)) - 2007 report that contains state-by-state health preparedness scores based on 10 key indicators to assess health emergency preparedness capabilities. The report also evaluates federal progress in preparing the country for bioterrorism, disasters and disease.
    • Ready or Not? Protecting the Public's Health from Disease, Disasters, and Bioterrorism, 2008 - (Trust for America's Health (TFAH)) - 2008 report that contains state-by-state health preparedness scores based on 10 key indicators to assess health emergency preparedness capabilities. This report finds that progress made to protect the country from disease outbreaks, natural disasters, and bioterrorism is at risk, due to budget cuts and the economic crisis.
    • Ready or Not? Protecting the Public's Health from Disease, Disasters, and Bioterrorism, 2009 - (Trust for America's Health (TFAH)) - 2009 report that contains state-by-state health preparedness scores based on 10 key indicators to assess health emergency preparedness capabilities. This report finds that the H1N1 flu outbreak has exposed serious underlying gaps in the nation's ability to respond to public health emergencies.
    • Ready or Not? Protecting the Public's Health in the Age of Bioterrorism, 2003 - (Trust for America's Health (TFAH)) - 2003 report that addresses the improvements made to the public health system in the form of a state-by-state assessment and areas that still need improvement.
    • Ready or Not? Protecting the Public's Health in the Age of Bioterrorism, 2004 - (Trust for America's Health (TFAH)) - 2004 report of preparedness against public health emergencies that finds that despite incremental progress, three years after September 11, 2001, there is still a long way to go to protect the American people from a bioterror attack.
    • Ready.gov - (Department of Homeland Security U.S.) - Contains checklists and basic instructions to help families be prepared for any type of disaster.
    • Redefining Readiness - (Center for the Advancement of Colloborative Strategies in Health, New York Academy of Medicine) - Reports and tools to enable households, work places, schools and early childhood/youth programs, and governments to anticipate and address problems they would face in emergencies.
    • Regionalization of Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response - (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)) - Report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    • Research Priorities in Emergency Preparedness and Response for Public Health Systems - (Institute of Medicine (IOM)) - Conclusions and recommendations from the IOM Committee on Research Priorities in Emergency Preparedness and Response for Public Health Systems.
    • Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - (Disaster Information Management Research Center, NLM) - Gateway to freely available online resources related to disaster medicine and public health. Resources include expert guidelines, factsheets, websites, research reports, articles, and other tools aimed at the public health community.
    • Special Populations: Emergency and Disaster Preparedness - (National Library of Medicine, Specialized Information Services Division) - Provides links to selected Web sites featuring emergency preparedness for special populations including people with disabilities, people with visual or hearing impairments, senior citizens, children, and women. Links to information in languages other than English are also provided.
    • Tool for Evaluating Core Elements of Hospital Disaster Drills - (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Johns Hopkins University Evidence-based Practice Center) - Series of evidence-based modules that provide standardized checklists to document observations during a hospital disaster drill. Using the observations, hospitals can identify areas for improvement, make appropriate changes and set benchmarks to track those changes over time.
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Surveillance

    • Global Disease Outbreak Map - (GlobalIncidentMap.com) - Displays outbreaks, cases and deaths from viral and bacterial diseases which have the potential to indicate biological terrorism.
    • Hazardous Substances Emergency Events Surveillance (HSEES) - (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, CDC (ATSDR)) - The HSEES system aims to reduce injury and death among first responders, employees, and the general public that result from releases of hazardous substances. It is the only federal database designed specifically to address the public health effects from releases of hazardous substances.
    • National Bioterrorism Syndromic Surveillance Demonstration Program - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)) - National coverage of information from ambulatory visits and calls to nurse help lines for over 20 million people is collected each day, analyzed and used to identify unusual clusters of illness that might represent bioterrorism events or other outbreaks of public health importance.
    • Surveillance for Bioterrorism - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)) - Information on illness recognition and detection, surveillance planning, surveillance systems, and more.
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Conferences and Meetings

Upcoming Meetings

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Discussion and E-mail Lists

    • CDC Email Updates - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)) - Free email subscription service for CDC.gov users to receive notifications when new information is available. Users create a subscription profile to get updated information on items of interest.
    • Disaster Information Outreach by Librarians Listserv - (National Library of Medicine (NLM) U.S.) - This email discussion forum is for librarians, information specialists, and other professionals interested in disaster health information outreach to their communities. As a participant in this listserv, you can stay informed about current disaster-related resources, connect to colleagues in the field, engage in information exchange and learn about new ideas, trends, training opportunities, and conferences in the area of disaster health information.
    • E-mail Alerts - (Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy, University of Minnesota (CIDRAP) U.S.) - Email alerts from CIDRAP
    • Natural Disaster Public Service Announcements (PSAs) and Podcasts - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)) - CDC PSAs and Podcasts provide timely messages about what you can do to protect yourself and your family during a natural disaster.
    • Preparedness Brief E-Newsletter - (National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)) - Electronic newsletter the provides news, research, and trends in the field of public health preparedness.
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Education and Training

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Grants and Funding

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