The Video Recording and all supporting materials for the Webinar given on July 14, 2020, from 3:30pm to 4:30pm EDT has been posted. Please join the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine for a webinar releasing a new report that highlights the current state of the evidence for public health emergency preparedness and response (PHEPR) and makes recommendations aimed at ensuring that PHEPR practice is grounded in robust evidence for what works, where, why, and for whom. by clicking on the following link. CLICK HERE TO ACCESS WEBINAR RESOURCE PAGE
This webinar covers all PHEPR capabilities, but might be particularly relevant to the evidence for COVID-19 mitigation strategies involving Capability 11, Non-pharmaceutical Interventions, such as social distancing, isolation of cases, quarantining of contacts, use of personal protective equipment, hand washing, disinfection and sanitation procedures, school and business closings and other lock-down and reopening mandates.
Marcia A. Testa, M.P.H., M.Phil., Ph.D., MAHB’s President and Co-Director, Emergency Preparedness, Research, Evaluation and Practice,(EPREP) Program at Harvard Chan School of Public Health, contributed to this important project by providing a comprehensive and systematic review of PHEPR published literature commissioned by NASEM. The Harvard study entitled “Review and Evidence Mapping of Scholarly Publications Within the CDC’s 15 Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Capabilities” was part of a Harvard Chan EPREP practicum project within the M.P.H. (Quantitative Methods) Program. The Harvard project team included: Elena Savoia, M.D., M.P.H.,EPREP Deputy Director and Paul Biddinger, M.D., EPREP Co-Director; Harvard and MAHB Staff Affiliates, Johanna Hayes, Sc.M., Senior Epidemiologist, and Maxwell Su, Sc.D., Senior Information and Biostatistician; Research Fellows, Rachel Nicole Piltch-Loeb, Ph.D. and Sergio Saldivar Salazar, M.D., Sc.M.; and Harvard M.P.H. graduates , Sailee Bhambere, B.D.S., M.P.H., Ryosuke Fukuda, M.D., M.P.H., Allison Hill, Ph.D.,M.P.H., Henry Onyeaka, M.B.B.S., M.P.H., and Api Chewcharat, M.D., M.P.H..
New Report Release from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Members of the expert committee behind this report will outline their findings and recommendations:
Speakers included:
Bruce (Ned) Calonge (Chair), The Colorado Trust
David Eisenman, University of California, Los Angeles
Francisco García, Pima County Department of Health
Paul Halverson, Indiana University
Suzet McKinney, Illinois Medical District
Paul Shekelle, Rand Corporation
What: Report release webinar from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
When: Tuesday, July 14, 2020, from 3:30pm to 4:30pm ET