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Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events; Board on Health Sciences Policy; Institute of Medicine. Enabling Rapid and Sustainable Public Health Research During Disasters: Summary of a Joint Workshop by the Institute of Medicine and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2015 Apr 6.

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Enabling Rapid and Sustainable Public Health Research During Disasters: Summary of a Joint Workshop by the Institute of Medicine and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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  • June 12, 2014
  • Natcher Conference Center
  • Masur Auditorium
  • Irvine, CA
1:00 p.m. Welcome and Introductions
  AUBREY MILLER
  • Senior Medical Advisor
  • National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health
1:15 p.m. Moving Forward: Implementing a Research Agenda in Disasters
  NICOLE LURIE
  • Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, Department of Health and Human Services
2:00 p.m. Plenary Session: Overview of Case Studies Demonstrating Health Research Needs, Actions, and Lessons Learned

Goal: Explore past research responses, needs, and priority issues of concern for framing the workshop sessions and discussions.

  Overview and Introductions/Facilitator
  • BOB URSANO, Director, Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
  Lessons from Katrina
  • DAVID ABRAMSON, Deputy Director, National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University
  Research Following September 11, 2001
  • DAVID PREZANT, Chief Medical Officer of the Fire Department of the City of New York
  Hurricane Sandy
  • LEWIS GOLDFRANK, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine at New York University
4:45 p.m. Concluding Remarks
  DONALD A. B. LINDBERG
  • Director, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health
  • June 13, 2014
  • Natcher Conference Center
  • Main Auditorium
  • Irvine, CA

Plenary Session 2: Morning Speakers

Goal: Identifying data gaps in disasters and implementing research looking forward.

  FRANCIS COLLINS
  • Director
  • National Institutes of Health
  LINDA BIRNBAUM
  • Director
  • National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
  JOHN HOWARD
  • Director
  • National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  Morning Concurrent Panel Sessions

PANEL 1: ADDRESSING INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARD BARRIERS TO HEALTH RESEARCH IMPLEMENTATION

  • Facilitator:
  • DIANE DIEULIIS, Deputy Director, Office of Policy and Planning, Assistant Secretary of Preparedness and Response

Goals: Explore strategies to balance human subject protections while enabling timely IRB review of research protocols, discuss strategies to obtain informed consent in emergency situations, and consider the ethics of data collection for special populations in disasters.

1.

MICHAEL GOTTESMAN, Deputy Director for Intramural Research, National Institutes of Health

2.

NELL ALLBRITTON, IRB Director, Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals

3.

HOLLY TAYLOR, Core Faculty, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

PANEL 2: PARTNERING WITH THE COMMUNITY TO ENABLE ACCESS AND BASELINE DATA

  • Facilitators:
  • JOSEPH “CHIP” HUGHES, Program Director, Worker Education and Training Branch, NIEHS
  • JACK HERRMANN, Senior Advisor & Chief, Public Health Programs, NACCHO

Goals: Explore how to effectively engage community and citizen scientists in disaster research. Consider strategies to strengthen the interface and collaborations with first responders and emergency management, health departments, workers, and others to promote successful disaster research.

1.

DAVID LAKEY, Commissioner, Texas Department of State Health Services

2.

STEPHEN BRADBERRY, Executive Director, Alliance Institute

3.

CRAIG SLATIN, Principal Investigator and Director of The New England Consortium

4.

ANTHONY SPEIER, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center

PANEL 3: IMPROVING DATA COLLECTION CAPABILITIES AND INFORMATION RESOURCES

  • Facilitator:
  • STEVEN PHILLIPS, National Library of Medicine, NIH

Goals: Explore new data collection tools and strategies, infrastructure needs to enable effective and accessible data sharing, and field implementation.

1.

AUBREY MILLER, Senior Medical Advisor, NIEHS

2.

MICHAEL HEUMANN, Oregon Public Health, Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists

3.

GAMUNU WIJETUNGE AND ELLEN SCHENK, NHTSA

4.

LAUREN LEWIS, Chief of Health Studies Branch, National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH/CDC)

Lunch

Afternoon Concurrent Panel Sessions

PANEL 4: CONSIDERATIONS FOR RAPID AND SUSTAINED FUNDING MECHANISMS FOR RESEARCH IN DISASTERS

  • Facilitator:
  • GWEN COLLMAN, Director, Division of Extramural Research and Training, NIEHS

Goals: Consider rapid funding mechanisms to enable nimble and flexible grant distribution. Discuss strategies for designing funding mechanisms that would allow for sustainable disaster research protocols, which have the flexibility to immediately activate additional protocols during a disaster.

1.

DENNIS WENGER, Program Director, Infrastructure Systems Management and Extreme Events, National Science Foundation

2.

FAITH MITCHELL, President and CEO, Grantmakers In Health

3.

SARAH LISTER, Specialist in Public Health and Epidemiology, Congressional Research Service

PANEL 5: IMPROVING THE ROLE OF EXTRAMURAL CLINICAL AND ACADEMIC RESEARCHERS, CENTERS, AND NETWORKS

  • Facilitator:
  • DAVID ABRAMSON, Deputy Director, National Center for Disaster Preparedness

Goals: Explore the essential role for the academic and clinical research community and other partners in collecting data, data sharing, communications, and other priorities to enable timely research. Discuss multiple institutions working together as one entity, and the characteristics of an ongoing, sustained research network.

1.

LORI PEEK, Codirector, Center for Disaster and Risk Analysis, Colorado State University

2.

GARY MACHLIS, Colead of Strategic Sciences Group, U.S. Department of the Interior

3.

PAUL SELIGMAN, Executive Director, Global Regulatory Policy, Amgen

4.

SHARON CROISANT, Associate Professor, Community Outreach and Education Program of the NIEHS Center in Environmental Toxicology, University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB)

PANEL 6: COORDINATING LOGISTICS TO EXECUTE RAPID RESEARCH IN DISASTER RESPONSE

  • Facilitator:
  • HOWARD ZUCKER, Acting Commissioner, New York State Department of Health

Goals: Discuss triggers for go/no-go scenarios, just-in-time training for research responders, integration of disaster research response into the ICS structure, and corresponding logistical needs when working in disaster settings.

1.

SHELLEY DUTEAUX, Assistant Deputy Director of Public Health Emergency Preparedness, California Department of Public Health

2.

CHARLES CAIRNS, Associate Director, U.S. Critical Illness and Injury Trials Group

3.

JOSEPH “CHIP” HUGHES, Program Director, Worker Education and Training Branch, NIEHS

4.

JOSEPH BARBERA, CoDirector of the Institute for Crisis, Disaster and Risk Management at George Washington University

Break

Plenary Session 3: Wrap Up and Next Steps Main Auditorium

Goals: Provide bold strategies for improved inclusion and integration of all stakeholders to support the timely identification of health research priorities, and collection of longer-term data to understand health impacts, efficacy of responses, and risk factors to strengthen resiliency and future preparedness.

REPORT BACK FROM PANEL DISCUSSIONS

Goal: Top 5 action items from each category for a 5-year horizon to improve our health research response capabilities

CLOSING RESPONSE PANEL: ACTIONS TO BUILD THE FUTURE FOR DISASTER RESEARCH

  • Facilitator:
  • BERNARD GOLDSTEIN, Emeritus Professor and Dean,
  • University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health
1.

MARCIA MCNUTT, Editor-in-Chief, Science

2.

JACK HERRMANN, Senior Advisor and Chief, Public Health Programs, NACCHO

3.

IRWIN REDLENER, Director, National Center for Disaster Preparedness

4.

SALLY PHILLIPS, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Health Affairs, DHS

5.

PAUL BIDDINGER, Medical Director for Emergency Preparedness, Massachusetts General Hospital and Partners Healthcare

Copyright 2015 by the National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
Bookshelf ID: NBK285429

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