PUBLIC HEALTH ARCHIVES
Mass Prophylaxis: The Brass Ring of Public Health Preparedness
Bruce Clements
May 27, 2009
It sounds like a mission impossible, but U.S. public health officials are determined to find a way to provide pandemic medications, within 48 hours, to everyone within a major metropolitan area endangered by pandemic influenza or a potentially lethal bioterrorism attack.
Field Testing or LRN Laboratories – Why Not Both?
Rob Schnepp
May 20, 2009
First responders & emergency managers must make many difficult decisions. One of the most consequential involves choosing between the field testing of potential biological agents at the scene of an incident & the safer but slower option of waiting for verified lab results.
Worst-Case Scenario: Pakistan Falls to the Taliban
Neil C. Livingstone
May 20, 2009
Israel & India could be first in the line of fire if the resurgent terrorist group gains control of Islamabad’s nuclear arsenal, but the United States would not be immune from attacks that could potentially evolve into a global nuclear holocaust.
Isolation, Quarantine, and the Compression of Time
Joseph Cahill
May 13, 2009
At one time it took 80 days to go around the world. It now takes only one day. The speed of person-to-person communications has dropped from several weeks to instantaneous. Unfortunately, medical capabilities have not moved forward at quite the same pace.
A Change in Fashions for the Well-Suited Responder
Glen Rudner
May 6, 2009
Today’s first-responder community is continually searching for the most effective technology to provide protection during a hazardous materials or WMD (weapons of mass destruction) incident. However, because most incidents to which first responders are dispatched do in fact involve hazardous materials, it is imperative that the responders are wearing
The Beslan School Massacre: A Threat with No Easy Solutions
Patrick D. Bird and Michael Allswede
May 6, 2009
The 2004 Chechen massacre of almost 400 students, parents, and teachers at Beslan School Number 1 shocked the entire world. The United States learned numerous lessons from that horrifying incident – but has yet to translate them into its own preparedness plans.
Funding & Capabilities: A New Look at DHS Grants
Timothy Beres
April 15, 2009
A new look at how DHS grant funds are being spent should be a major priority of the Obama administration. It will be difficult to find fault with the earlier focus on equipment, but it seems obvious that the previously neglected “planning factor” also deserves greater emphasis.
First-Person Report: Operation ‘CAMCO’ and How It Grew
John J. Burke
April 15, 2009
A first-person report from a veteran firefighter and incident-management professional tells how the Town of Sandwich, Mass., and local military units joined forces to synergistically enhance their individual and collective disaster-response capabilities.
A Consuming Need: Improved Security in the Food Chain
Steven Harrison
April 8, 2009
Safeguarding the nation’s food supply – from the farm to the fork, so to speak – is not only mandatory for health reasons but also, and increasingly, a national-defense/homeland-security requirement as well.
Food Safety: A Few Questions for the U.S. Government
Diana Hopkins
April 8, 2009
Most Americans eat too much and too often. Solving that problem is a personal dietary responsibility. Protecting the nation’s global food chain, though, is the government’s responsibility – one previously neglected, but now receiving close attention from a slim new president.
Double the Trouble: H5N1 Plus Cat 3 Complications
Ann Marie Brown and Jeffrey B. Peterson
April 1, 2009
A major epidemic to deal with is difficult enough in itself. Toss in a hurricane about to make landfall and the situation becomes impossible. Or it would have been if ServNC, the SMAT IIs, the NCOEMS, CDC, ESAR-VHP, and two FMSS trailers had not been available.
Everyone Must Go: The Anatomy of an Evacuation
Joseph Cahill
March 25, 2009
No response, no matter how successful, is ever complete without an honest after-action review, which if properly carried out leads to the extension of successful tactics and discontinuation of the unsuccessful ones. It also allows sharing this information with response partners and other agencies that could use the information to
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