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“Planning for a Pandemic” webcast on Nov 30 ‘09

November 5th, 2009 by Deanna Johnson

Attention! This webcast may be for you.

Pandemic[West Coast:  10:00 AM]


Webcast: Planning for a Pandemic – Can History Inform Action?

November 30, 2009 : http://www.publichealthreports.org/interactive/webcast.cfm

The next PHR Meet the Author web cast series brings together public health historians and practitioners to connect the U.S. experience of the 1918 flu pandemic to the ongoing practice issues facing influenza preparedness planning.

The program will address cutting-edge questions including:
• How did diverse communities and local leaders respond to the 1918 flu?
• How can these responses inform contemporary planning?
• How are these lessons being applied to inform the U.S. response to H1N1?
• What are the implications for planning at the local level, both in urban and rural America?

Title:
Planning for a Pandemic – Can History Inform Action?

Date/Time:
Monday, November 30, 2009 at 10:00 AM (PST)

Speakers:
Howard Markel, MD, PhD
George E. Wantz Professor of The History of Medicine, University of Michigan
Alexandra Stern, PhD
Zina Pitcher Collegiate Professor in The History Of Medicine, University Of Michigan
Marty Cetron, MD
Ronald H. Lauterstein Professor Director of the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Respondents:
Implications for cities: David Rosner, PhD
Ronald H. Lauterstein Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and History
Implications for rural areas: Michael Meit MA, MPH
Director, Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis, National Opinion Research Center

Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/941279587

System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista

Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.4 (Tiger®) or newer.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Widgets, Gadgets, Statistics & Data for your websites and blogs

September 25th, 2009 by Bruce Abbott

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is your one-stop location for gathering digital widgets and gadgets for displaying up-to-date credible health and safety content directly on your web pages and blogs. The widgets are actually CDC.gov applications that require no technical maintenance, with updates to contents being handled by CDC automatically.
The latest available widgets include HHS2 2009, Flu Info, H1N1, Flu IQ, and a variety of apps covering everyday health issues.
http://cdc.gov/widgets/

The Health and Safety section of the site provides a Data and Statistics Archive. The September reports for cancer include hematologic cancers by gender, new cases of gynecologic cancers, prostate cancer, cancer in children, top 10 cancers among men. Other topics cover obesity, environment, health policy, disabilities, etc.
http://cdc.gov/Features/DataStatistics.html

Data and Statistics from CDC

Data and Statistics from CDC

Scholar & award winning author, John M. Barry, releases White Paper on Novel H1N1

July 21st, 2009 by Bernadette Swanson

John M. Barry’s ‘White Paper On Novel H1N1: Prepared for the MIT Center for Engineering Systems
Fundamentals
‘ [PDF] is now available for download from MIT’s Engineering Systems Division 2009 Working Paper Series.

Author Affiliation: John M. Barry, Distinguished Scholar, Tulane University Center for Bioenvironmental Research Member, Advisory Board, MIT Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals.

Table of Contents:
1. Background on the Influenza Virus
2. The Epidemiological Picture and Cross-Protection as of Late June 2009
3. Antivirals and Vaccines
4. Recent Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions and International Actions
5. Communication
6. The Past as Prologue: Waves and Patterns from Past Pandemics
7. The Future of Novel H1N1

Download PDF from MIT's Engineering Systems Division 2009 Working Paper Series

Download PDF from MIT's Engineering Systems Division 2009 Working Paper Series

About John M. Barry:

Barry’s The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History, was awarded the 2005 Keck Award, the year’s outstanding book on science or medicine, from the National Academies of Science.

Find the book & an assortment of Barry’s related work via Next-Generation Melyvl Pilot:

Locate Barry’s book in a variety of formats via the Next-Generation Melvyl Pilot (NGM) catalog. An author search in NGM provides a look at the broad sweep covered by John M. Barry’s research and writing for a variety of audiences.
The book can also be found via the Harvest UC Davis Library Catalog and is located at the Carlson Health Sciences Library on the lower level with the following call number (shelf location): WC 515 B279g 2004.

About the image:
Colorized negative stained transmission electron micrograph (TEM) depicting some of the ultrastructural morphology of the A/CA/4/09 swine flu virus. See PHIL 11212 for a black and white version of this image.

The public domain image was made available through: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Public Health Image Library (PHIL) Photographs, Illustrations, Multimedia Files.

UC Davis Library H1N1 (swine) Flu Page

May 8th, 2009 by Kenneth Firestein

see: HERE to see an extensive page of information about the H1N1 (swine) Flu