The mission of the UAlbany Center for Public Health Preparedness is to improve the capacity of the public health workforce to respond to current and emerging public health threats with a focus on bioterrorism and infectious disease outbreaks. Winter 2003 Schedule Public Health Preparedness Grand Rounds Series All Programs 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. at the University at Albany School of Public Health George Education Center Auditorium Routes 9 and 20 (minutes from Interstate 787 and downtown Albany) March 24, 2003 Terrorism Preparedness: Effecting Local Response from a National Plan Dr. Amy E. Smithson, PhD, Director, Henry L. Stimson Center Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Project * This program is a satellite broadcast followed by live panel discussion at the UAlbany School of Public Health. To participate as a downlink site for satellite broadcast, complete and return Site Registration Form. Downlink sites April 2, 2003 Public Health, Emergency Preparedness and Ensuring Civil Rights in a Time of Crisis The Honorable Ralph F. Boyd. Jr., Assistant Attorney General and Chief of Civil Rights Division; US Dept of Justice April 14, 2003 Surveillance Systems for Biological and Other Events Dr. Anita Barry, MD, MPH, Director, Communicable Disease Control, Boston Public Health Commission Past Programs Communication During Crisis (Satellite Broadcast, December 3, 2002) Speaker: Douglas Starr, PhD, Knight Center for Science and Medical Journalism Boston University College of Communication Video copies of the one-hour broadcast are available from the Public Health Foundation. Copies of the panel discussion will be made available thru the Center for Public Health Preparedness. Please request via email to mwatson@albany.edu Challenges in the Detection and Identification of Biological Agents (January 22, 2003) Dr. Jonathan Hibbs (Vice President of Biotechnology Research at Evident Technologies, Albany, NY; formerly Director of Bacteriology and Bioterrorism Preparedness Laboratories, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health) The Public Health Response to Smallpox (Satellite broadcast in cooperation with Third Thursday Breakfast Broadcast; January 30, 2003) Dr. Guthrie Birkhead, MD, MPH, Director, Center for Community Health; NYS Department of Health (NYS DOH) and Dr. John Treanor, MD, Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Disease, University of Rochester Managing Chemical and Radiological Threats (March 5, 2003) Dr. Wanda Lizak Welles, PhD, Research Scientist and Section Chief; Hazardous Substances Events Surveillance Section; Bureau of Toxic Substance Assessment at the NYS DOH; Stephen Gavitt, CHP, Asst. Director; Bureau of Environmental Radiation Protection; Center for Environmental Health, NYS DOH If you have comments or would like more information, please send a message with relevant topic in the Subject line to mwatson@albany.edu Last update: March 14, 2003