Browse Items (24 total)

• Developing a Rapid Response Single IRB Model for Conducting Research During a Public Health Emergency

  Tags Pandemic, R-Res&Pub, Research, Research Design
  Creator: Abigail E Lowe, Colleen Kraft, Mark G Kortepeter, Keith F Hansen, Kristine Sanger, Ann Johnson, Jonathan D Grein, Julie Martin, Rebecca Rousselle, Jennifer A Garland, Jessica Spotts, John J Lowe, Lauren M Sauer, Christopher J Kratochvil, Bruce G…
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2022-05-31
  Description: Research is foundational for evidence-based management of patients. Clinical research, however, takes time to plan, conduct, and disseminate—a luxury that is rarely available during a public health emergency. The University of Nebraska Medical Center…

• Crises, Calamities, and Chaos: How Public Health Can Improve Response to Emerging Threats Wherever They Arise

  Tags Emergency Management, Epidemic, Pandemic, Public Health, R-EM
  Creator: Boston University
  Subject: Emergency Management
  Item Type: Webinar
  Date Last Updated: 2018-04-30
  Description: From Ebola to Zika, from hurricanes to opioids, threats to health make headlines and challenge our public health response. Lessons learned from CDC’s engagements around the world, and in our backyard, suggest a role for everyone in mitigating risk…

• Vaccine development during global epidemics: the Zika experience

  Tags Epidemic, Outbreaks, Pandemic, R-Lab, R-Res&Pub, Vaccine Study
  Creator: Castanha, Priscila M. S., and Ernesto T. A. Marques.
  Subject: Laboratory
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-05-06
  Description: The North and South American continents experienced a major epidemic of Zika virus in 2015–16, which infected up to 70% of the population in some areas.
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  CDC Planning and Preparedness Resources for Pandemic Flu

  Tags Flu, Influenza, Pandemic, Preparedness, R-EM
  Creator: CDC
  Subject: Emergency Management
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2016-11-03
  Description: About Pandemic Influenza Purpose An influenza pandemic is a global outbreak of a new influenza A virus that is very different from current and recently circulating human seasonal influenza A viruses. Pandemics happen when new (novel) influenza A…
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  Ecology of Emerging Zoonotic Diseases

  Tags Avian Influenza, Crimean Congo Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF), Ebola, Epidemic, Lassa, Marburg, Nipah (NiV), Outbreaks, Pandemic, Public Health, R-Gen, Respiratory Pathogen, SARS, Special Pathogens, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever, Zoonotic
  Creator: CDC, Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (CDC OPHPR)
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Webinar
  Date Last Updated: 2017-11-02
  Description: This webinar discusses Nipah virus and Ebola in terms of how human activity increases contact with wildlife and thus zoonotic disease emergence, and discusses interventions that reduce such risk.

• Too Many Patients…A Framework to Guide Statewide Allocation of Scarce Mechanical Ventilation During Disasters

  Tags Ethics, Pandemic, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Treatment and Care
  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…
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  VA Pandemic Influenza Plan

  Tags Emergency Management, Ethics, Flu, Influenza, Pandemic, R-EM, R-Res&Pub, Treatment and Care
  Creator: Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
  Subject: Emergency Management
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2006-03-31
  Description: The VA Pandemic Influenza Plan has been created to guide VA in protecting staff and Veterans during a pandemic. It is part of VA emergency plans to help all parts of VA with preparation, response, and recovery stages of an influenza pandemic.

• Worst case: rethinking tertiary triage protocols in pandemics and other health emergencies

  Tags Critical Care, Ethics, Pandemic, R-EM, R-Res&Pub, Treatment and Care
  Creator: Fink, Sheri L.
  Subject: Emergency Management
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2010
  Description: Demand for critical care resources could vastly outstrip supply in an influenza pandemic or other health emergency, which has led expert groups to propose altered standards for triage and resource allocation.

• An observational cohort study of triage for critical care provision during pandemic influenza: ‘clipboard physicians’ or ‘evidenced based medicine’?

  Tags Critical Care, Ethics, Flu, Influenza, Pandemic, R-Res&Pub, Treatment and Care
  Creator: Guest, T., G. Tantam, N. Donlin, K. Tantam, H. McMillan, and A. Tillyard.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2009-10-09
  Description: We assessed the impact of a United Kingdom government‐recommended triage process, designed to guide the decision to admit patients to intensive care during an influenza pandemic, on patients in a teaching hospital intensive care unit.

• Lessons from Ebola: Preventing the Next Pandemic

  Tags Ebola, Outbreaks, Pandemic, R-T&E, Training
  Creator: Harvard University
  Subject: Emergency Management
  Item Type: Online Course
  Date Last Updated: 2018-09-03
  Description: Understanding the context for the Ebola outbreak: What went right, what went wrong, and how we can all do better. Open September 3, 2018 – September 1, 2020