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CDC's Career Epidemiology Field Officer Program
Ruth Marrero
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
The innovative CEFO Program represents a new national resource that is already being used by 21 states to strengthen their own epidemiological preparedness capabilities, with other states sure to follow in the near future. read
The Gap Analysis Tool: Building Blocks for Preparedness
Kelly R. McKinney & Joseph Picciano
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Best-case estimates provide a shaky foundation for all-hazards disaster plans; worst-case estimates may cost more in the short term, therefore, but are a better working tool for post-incident response and recovery efforts. read
Politics and Science: A Glowing Combination?
Jerry Mothershead
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
How does a democracy work? Not always quite the way it should, particularly when substantive evidence has been presented for only one side of an issue and the media compensates by giving more, and more favorable, publicity to the other side. read
Military and Civilian Burn Management: Lessons Learned
Christopher S. Holland
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
The U.S. military and civilian medical communities mingle, mix, and learn from one another, particularly in the highly specialized, but extremely important, field of burn care. read
Developing Competency for Disaster Medical Response Situations
Michael Allswede, DO
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
The treatment of victims of mass-casualty incidents is probably the greatest challenge facing the U.S. medical community - but, in most of the nation's medical schools, ranks lowest on the academic priority list. read
Excellence in Education: Georgia's New CHEC Course
Gina Piazza
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
The duties & responsibilities of hospital emergency coordinators are extremely complex and specialized. A new course of studies sponsored by the Georgia Department of Human Resources provides the framework needed for three levels of CHEC certification. read
The Myth of the Cordon Sanitaire
Michael Allswede
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
The best way to cope with an avian-flu pandemic is to pre-designate certain hospitals as "flu-only" facilities - right? No - absolutely wrong! For a variety of practical, economic, and medical reasons. Here are some of them. read
Partnerships at Work in Public Health Planning
Steven Harrison
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
The Commonwealth of Virginia once again provides a best-practices example of the best way to plan for a potential mass-casualty disaster: Ensure that all stakeholders, private-sector as well as government, are fully involved ahead of time, and practice. read
Public-Health Planning: Partnerships Work
Steven Harrison
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
The Commonwealth of Virginia provides another best-practices example - this time in the public-health field - of how private-sector organizations can work with one another, and with their government counterparts, before rather than after a crisis erupts. read
Gap Analysis - A Long and Winding Process
James M. Rush
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Disaster planning is difficult, time-consuming, sometimes boring - but also absolutely necessary. And in the long run it conserves resources, permits the most efficient use of the usually limited medical staff available, and saves a lot of lives. read
Anatomy of a Near-Miss Radiation Disaster
Michael Allswede
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
The 2006 assassination of former KGB Colonel Alexander Litvenenko was eventually solved - but there are many questions still unanswered as well as strong suspicions about the operating tactics of Russia's post-USSR political leaders. read
Love Thy Neighbor - But Keep Your Distance
Jerry Mothershead
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Kill diseases by starving them to death through social distancing! That is probably the most effective and lowest-cost means of containing the spread of diseases carried in microbe-laced weapons of mass destruction. read
Healthcare Reform and the Building of Additional Medical Response Capacity
Michael Allswede DO
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Healthcare reform could be a major sleeper issue in next year's elections, and deservedly so. But reforms that make matters worse would be counterproductive. Here are some suggestions that the winning candidates might consider. read
Preparing Hospitals for Use as Fallout Shelters
Kirk Paradise
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Forward-looking planners in Huntsville, Alabama, are seeking to determine the feasibility of using medical facilities as fallout shelters to cope with mass-casualty incidents involving a nuclear or "dirty" bomb. read
Sheltering Against the Ultimate - A Nuclear Detonation in a U.S. City
Kirk Paradise
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
The good news is that the fallout shelters built during the Cold War never had to be used. The bad news is that they might have to be resurrected, refurbished and reconditioned, and made available as "just in case" protection facilities. read
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