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Creator: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Subject: Personnel Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-07-28
Description: This rapid expert consultation builds on prior National Academies reports on the Crisis Standards of Care (CSC) and the rapid expert consultation on March 28, 2020, and focuses on staffing needs for the care of COVID patients, including the… -
Creator: Standing Committee on Emerging Infectious Diseases and 21st Century Health Threats
Subject: Laboratory
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-04-08
Description: In response to a request from the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a standing committee of experts to help inform OSTP on critical science and policy issues related… -
Creator: WHO
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Online Course
Date Last Updated: 2018-07-05
Description: The 21st century has witnessed changes - travel and trade, urbanization, environmental degradation and other trends that increase the risk of disease outbreaks, their spread and amplification into epidemics and pandemics. At the same time, the… -
Creator: Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2016-08-01
Description: This release discusses how non-scientists can spot the hype in media coverage on public health emergencies. -
Creator: Wells, Chad R., Meagan C. Fitzpatrick, Pratha Sah, Affan Shoukat, Abhishek Pandey, Abdulrahman M. El-Sayed, Burton H. Singer, Seyed M. Moghadas, and Alison P. Galvani.
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-04-20
Description: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been straining health-care systems worldwide. For countries still in the early phase of an outbreak, there is concern regarding insufficient supply of intensive care unit (ICU) beds and ventilators… -
Creator: World Health Organization
Subject: General
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2022
Description: Worldwide, the number of potential pathogens is very large, while the resources for disease research and development (R&D) is limited. To ensure efforts under WHO’s R&D Blueprint are focused and productive, a list of diseases and pathogens are… -
Creator: Varkey, J. B. and B. S. Ribner
Subject: General
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2016-06-01
Description: Ending the West Africa Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak required an unprecedented international response. -
Creator: WHO
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2019-04-12
Description: ABOUT THIS ANALYSIS: DRC’s national research institute, the Institut National pour la Recherche Biomedicale (INRB) and WHO have conducted a preliminary analysis of the data being collected from the ring vaccination protocol. The analysis summarized… -
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: Qventus
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Hyperlink
Date Last Updated: 2020-03-13
Description: Predicting the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic On US Health System Capacity Qventus works with leading health systems across the country to improve operations and drive more efficient patient flow. Over recent weeks, they have been helping their…