Public Health Preparedness Modeling

The folks at the Texas Department of State Health Services have created a vaccine refrigeration planning model that is available on their pandemic influenza web page. Dr. Cynthia Morgan led the development of the model. She emphasized in an email to me: “One important thing to note is the model takes thermodynamic into [...]

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The Dekalb County, Georgia, Advanced Practice Center has created Master the Disaster, a tool that helps with the preparation of a tabletop exercise. According to Julie Smith, “What we wanted to do was take btCreate, which was extremely popular for several years after it came out, and create a sequel, updating it, adding more [...]

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Today’s webinar on the CDC stockpile routing portal to TourSolver just finished.  (There will be another one on April 2, 2008.) According to Kevin Callen, the moderator from C2Logix, there were 96 folks participating.  I was preregistered.  At the appointed time, I had to login to the website and then install the GoToWebinar viewer, which [...]

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A manager at C2Logix, the developers of TourSolver, let me know that they are hosting a free seminar on their Emergency Management Logistics Routing Technology on Monday, March 31, 2008, from 1:30 to 3:30 PM at the Marriott Courtyard Dunn Loring Fairfax, 2722 Gallows Road, Vienna, Virginia 22180. If you are interested, contact Francois [...]

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The CDC Stockpile Routing Web Portal provides no-cost access for planners to use the TourSolver software to generate routes for distributing medication from an RSS to multiple PODs. The portal is provided by the CDC and developed by C2Logix.  There will be a webinar on next Tuesday, March 11, 2008, to demonstrate its use and [...]

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