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Creator: Public Health - Seattle & King County
Subject: Treatment & Care
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2009-09-29
Description: A severe influenza pandemic will have profound impact on the health care delivery system. Shortages of life-sustaining medical resources, including hospital beds, trained health care providers, intensive care unit resources, medical supplies,… -
Creator: Daugherty Biddison, E. Lee, Ruth Faden, Howard S. Gwon, Darren P. Mareiniss, Alan C. Regenberg, Monica Schoch-Spana, Jack Schwartz, and Eric S. Toner.
Subject: Treatment & Care
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2019-04
Description: The threat of a catastrophic public health emergency causing life-threatening illness or injury on a massive scale has prompted extensive federal, state, and local preparedness efforts. Modeling studies suggest that an influenza pandemic similar to… -
Creator: New York State Department of Health and New York State Task Force
Subject: Treatment & Care
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2015-11-25
Description: The guidelines provide direction for the distribution of ventilators in the event of a severe pandemic, when there are insufficient ventilators to treat everyone who needs them. The guidelines balance the goal of saving the most lives with important… -
Creator: Lewnard, Joseph A., and Nathan C. Lo.
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-03-23
Description: On Dec 31, 2019, the WHO China Country Office received notice of a cluster of pneumonia cases of unknown aetiology in the Chinese city of Wuhan, Hubei province. -
Creator: Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, The Pregnancy Research Ethics for Vaccines, Epidemics, and New Technologies (PREVENT) Project
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2019-05-03
Description: PREVENT Guidance This Guidance provides a roadmap for the ethically responsible, socially just, and respectful inclusion of the interests of pregnant women in the development and deployment of vaccines against emerging pathogens. The Guidance is a… -
Creator: Angie M. Boyce and Brian T. Garibaldi.
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2019-02-19
Description: Host genomic research on high-consequence infectious diseases is a growing area, but the ethical, legal, and social implications of such findings related to potential applications of the research have not yet been identified. -
Creator: NETEC SPRN Medical Countermeasures Working Group
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2019-02-19
Description: Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases pose growing global public health threats. However, research on and development of medical countermeasures (MCMs) for such pathogens is limited by the sporadic and unpredictable nature of outbreaks, lack… -
Creator: Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
Subject: General
Item Type: Online Course
Date Last Updated: 2016-07-13
Description: A learning module for students to discuss, identify, and consider issues related to community engagement in public health emergency planning and response. -
Creator: Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
Subject: General
Item Type: Webinar
Date Last Updated: 2016-09-19
Description: Episode of the 'Ethically Sound' podcast, discussing ethics and ebola. -
Creator: World Health Organization (WHO)
Subject: General
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2016-10-18
Description: Infectious disease outbreaks are frequently characterized by scientific uncertainty, social and institutional disruption, and an overall climate of fear and distrust. Policy makers and public health professionals may be forced to weigh and prioritize…