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Session: Planning For Pandemic Influenza: Local, State, Tribal and Federal Perspectives
3310.0: Monday, November 06, 2006: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Oral
Planning For Pandemic Influenza: Local, State, Tribal and Federal Perspectives
Continued outbreaks of avian influenza in an ever-growing number of countries raise the concern that an H5N1 influenza virus will evolve into a virus spreading efficiently from person to person and resulting in an influenza pandemic. Planning for such a pandemic poses many challenges at the federal, state, local and tribal levels, some of the key ones being the number of unknowns (epidemiology, availability of countermeasures, effectiveness of social distancing measures), the need to plan for response with local resources given the widespread nature of the event, the impact on the healthcare system, and possibly on other critical infrastructure, and the coordination of the large number of entities involved in planning and in response. Much of the response to pandemic influenza will unfold at the local level, so it is important that all communities engage in planning. The requirement for states to submit plans as part of CDC's preparedness cooperative agreement in June 2005, the recent allocation of funds through that cooperative agreement, and the heightened level of attention to the potential for an influenza pandemic at the highest levels of government have resulted in substantial focus on planning for pandemic influenza at the state and local level. This session proposes to provide a federal, state, local and tribal perspective on selected current issues and activities.
Learning Objectives: At the end of the session the participant will be able to: 1) Describe an approach to community engagement around prioritization of scarce resources, 2) Describe the role of local health departments in contrast to state health departments in pandemic response, 3) Describe the unique aspect of tribal planning 4) Describe current availability of vaccine and antiviral drugs
Moderator(s):James A. Gaudino #Epi, MD, MS, MPH
2:30 PMIntroductory Remarks
2:35 PMPlanning for Pandemic Influenza: Federal Perspective  [ Recorded presentation ]
Pascale Wortley, MD, MPH
2:50 PMPlanning for Pandemic Influenza: State Perspective  [ Recorded presentation ]
Susan M. Allan, MD, JD, MPH
3:10 PMPlanning for Pandemic Influenza: Local Perspective  [ Recorded presentation ]
Paul Etkind, DrPH, MPH
3:30 PMPlanning for Pandemic Influenza: A Tribal Perspective
Jim Roberts
3:50 PMDiscussion
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Epidemiology
Endorsed by:Academic Public Health Caucus; Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Maternal and Child Health
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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