Public Health Preparedness Modeling

How will global climate change affect public health departments? The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and George Mason University have conducted a survey of local public health directors to answer this question. The report, published by EDF, shows that local public health directors worry that [...]

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If you have data on the time needed to dispense antibiotics (or other oral medications) in a drive-through POD, please let me know – we would like to include such data in our Clinic Planning Model Generator, and there are other planners who need that data also.  Thank you!
As always, my email is jwh2@umd.edu.

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David Dickerson, a Strategic National Stockpile Coordinator at the Texas Department of State Health Services, has made available a set of resources for POD planning. In particular these tools are designed to help educate and recruit volunteers. You can access the resources at the following URL: www.snstools.info by using the user name “sns” [...]

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On April 3, I had the opportunity to present some of our recent work on POD resupply planning to some folks at the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. My presentation and the subsequent discussion focused on the operational phase, after PODs have received some initial supplies, but more needs to be delivered (because not [...]

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Over at LiveSmarter, Laura Milligan has included our blog in her list of top 100 academic medical blogs.  Her list covers a range of topics, including research, health news, medical technology, hospitals, and various medical conditions.  We thank her for noticing our work.

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