Emergency National Preparedness
December 2006
BNA's Web Watch is prepared by Laura
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Federal Government
Congress - Legislation
S. 3678
Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act (Engrossed as Agreed to
or Passed by Senate) Status
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Summary and Status
H.R. 5533 Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development
Act of 2006 (Referred to Senate Committee after being Received from
House)
Status
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Summary and Status
Government Accountability Office
DISASTER PREPAREDNESS
Limitations in Federal Evacuation Assistance for Health Facilities
Should be Addressed (July 2006) GAO-06-826
Health and Human Services – Office of Inspector General
Nursing
Home Emergency Preparedness and Response during Recent Hurricanes
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Training for
Terrorism-Related Conditions in Hospitals: United States, 2003-2004
National Institute of Justice
Agroterrorism: Why We’re Not Ready
Executive
Summary | Full
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Federal Transit Agency
Transit
Agency Security and Emergency Management Protective Measures
(November 2006)
SAFECOM
National Baseline Survey Findings Show Significant Levels of Interoperability
Across the Nation
Survey
Results | Appendix
to Report | SafeCom |
Fact
Sheet (via DHS)
Nongovernment Organizations
American Psychological Association
Workplace and
Public Safety: The Role of Behavioral Research - Dr. Burke's
presentation
(October 2006)
Citizens for Rail Safety - via International Brotherhood
of Teamsters
Report
Cites Need for Quality Hazmat Training for Rail Workers
High
Alert: Workers Warn of Security Gaps on Nation’s Railroads
FRC
Report: The Imminent Storm 2006: Vulnerable Emergency Communications
in Eight Hurricane Prone States (April 2006)
Full
Report (October 2006)
Rand Corporation
Combating Terrorism:
How Prepared Are State and Local Response Organizations? 2006)
Organizing
State and Local Health Departments for Public Health Preparedness
— 2006 Wasserman J, Jacobson P, Lurie N, Nelson C, Ricci
K, Shea M, Zazzali J, Nelson MI
Public
Health Preparedness: Integrating Public Health and Hospital Preparedness
Programs — 2006 Davis LM, Ringel JS, Cotton SK, Griffin
B, Malcolm E, Mariano LT, Pace JE, Ricci K, Shea M, Wasserman J,
Zazzali J
Public Health
Preparedness in the 21st Century — 2006
Lurie N
Quality
Improvement: Implications for Public Health Preparedness —
2006
Seid M, Lotstein D, Williams VL, Nelson C, Lurie N, Ricci K, Diamant
A, Wasserman J, Stern S
TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program
(NCHRP)
Report 525:
Surface Transportation Security, Volume 7: System Security Awareness
for Transportation Employees
TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program
(NCHRP)
Report
525: Surface Transportation Security, Volume 10: A Guide to Transportation's
Role in Public Health Disasters (May 2006)
TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP)
Report
86: Public Transportation Security, Volume 11: Security Measures
for Ferry Systems
Trust for America’s Health
Ready or Not? Protecting the Public’s Health from Disease,
Disasters, and Bioterrorism, 2006 Home
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