Public Health Preparedness Modeling

The University of Maryland and the Montgomery County, Maryland, Advanced Practice Center for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response are pleased to announce the release of a new version of eMedCheck.
This PDA-based software is designed for screening individuals at a hepatitis A vaccination clinic. The software asks questions about the patient’s medical history [...]

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The CDC has a set of resources for planning vaccination clinics. These come from a message from CDC’s Division of State and Local Readiness.
U.S. 2009 H1N1 Vaccine Strategy, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. A graphical depiction of the predicted waves of the outbreak and the expected time frames for vaccine development, [...]

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The journal IIE Transactions now has a homeland security department. This department intends to publish descriptions of research efforts that develop and test innovative operations research models and methodologies that can help organizations design better homeland security systems, including those for planning, prevention, response, and recovery.
For more information, please see the department web site.

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CDC’s Emergency Operations Center is featured in a youTube video. The video interviews staff in the EOC’s team rooms, conference rooms, and other facilities and covers a range of activities, from planning and science to logistics and operations and communications.

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Ed Pohl, Heather Nachtmann and Richard Cassady (all from the Mack-Blackwell Rural Transportation Center at the University of Arkansas) have developed a method for assessing the vulnerabilities of rural transportation networks. Unlike the USDOT’s complex approach, this approach uses AHP to identify the most critical assets for further assessment.
The approach first assesses the importance [...]

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