2012-05-24T14:56:20Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/topics/bioterrorism.html http://www.rand.org/commentary/2011/12/29/AJC.html Dec 29, 2011 Dec 29, 2011

To assure the health security of the United States, we must be capable of stopping anything a terrorist or Mother Nature might throw at us. Wholesale cuts to public health are taking us farther from that goal, write Art Kellermann and Melinda Moore.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR665.html Sep 3, 2009 Sep 3, 2009

<p>Presents tools for assessing state/local health departments' capability to rapidly deliver medical countermeasures in response to a public health emergency; provides a framework for determining which elements of the capability to assess; describes procedures for the five assessments developed; summarizes methods and findings from field tests; and identifies next steps and policy implications.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9434.html Apr 1, 2009 Apr 1, 2009

<p>This research highlight summarizes the findings of RAND's initial evaluation of the Cities Readiness Initiative and the program's impact on communities' readiness to conduct mass dispensing of medications and other medical supplies.</p>

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2009/03/24.html Mar 24, 2009 Mar 24, 2009

A federal program designed to help metropolitan public health agencies prepare to deliver essential medicines to the public after a large-scale bioterror attack or natural disease outbreak has succeeded in improving the level of readiness.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9279.html Aug 5, 2007 Aug 5, 2007

This fact sheet describes tabletop exercises in six Georgia health districts and at the state level to understand what coordination and public health response are required among groups with diverse responsibilities and at different government levels.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP1250.html May 15, 2007 May 15, 2007

<p>An exercise in responding to agricultural bioterrorism examined the intentional introduction of avian influenza in commercial poultry operations during a severe human influenza season. The scenario enabled exploration of a range of issues associated with public health preparedness for major disease outbreaks.</p>

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2007/04/05.html Apr 5, 2007 Apr 5, 2007

April 5, 2007 news release: RAND Panel Identifies Key Components of Public Health Emergency Preparedness.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/testimonies/CT257.html Mar 27, 2006 Mar 27, 2006

Testimony presented before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, Subcommittee on Bioterrorism and Public Health Preparedness on March 28, 2006.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20060007.html Dec 31, 2005 Dec 31, 2005

<p>The goals of this chapter are (1) to introduce the statistical issues in syndromic surveillance, (2) to describe and illustrate approaches to evaluating syndromic surveillance systems and characterizing their performance, and (3) to evaluate the performance of a couple of specific algorithms through both abstract simulations and simulations based on actual data.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR224.html Oct 6, 2005 Oct 6, 2005

<p>An evaluation of the pilot year of Project Public Health Ready (PHR), which aims to prepare local public health agencies to respond to bioterrorism and to protect the public&rsquo;s health-this report delineates PHR benefits and challenges. The program is voluntary and participants receive recognition for their efforts. Overall, PHR deadlines and requirements led agencies to become prepared earlier than if they had not participated in the program.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR261.html Aug 4, 2005 Aug 4, 2005

<p>In 2003, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public Health Emergency Preparedness contracted the RAND Corporation to develop and test tabletop exercises on early local public health agency (LPHA) responses to outbreaks caused by bioterrorism. RAND developed the exercises in this manual as templates that LPHAs can customize and use to train public health workers in detecting and responding to bioterrorism events and assessing LPHAs&rsquo; levels of preparedness.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20050323.html Mar 31, 2005 Mar 31, 2005

Public health officials have been quick to adopt this new tool for identifying emerging problems, but research is needed to assess its effectiveness.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20050330.html Dec 31, 2004 Dec 31, 2004

<p>Discusses the Impact of a major act of agricultural bio-terrorism in the United States.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20050901.html Dec 31, 2004 Dec 31, 2004

<p>The purpose of this study was to review instruments that assess the level of preparedness of state and local public health departments to respond to health threats such as bioterrorism.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20050811.html Dec 31, 2004 Dec 31, 2004

<p>This paper examines primary care physicians' (PCP) roles in helping the nation prepare for, respond to, and recover from the psychologic consequences of chemical, biologic, radiologic, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism.</p>

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2004/08/22/SDUT.html Aug 22, 2004 Aug 22, 2004

Published commentary by RAND staff.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9094.html Dec 31, 2003 Dec 31, 2003

The RAND Corporation interviewed a diverse sample of individuals from Capitol Hill and from the Brentwood postal facility with the purpose of understanding in detail how these individuals responded to the advice of public health officials to take antibiotics for at least 60 days.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9086.html Dec 31, 2003 Dec 31, 2003

A severe public health crisis could require onerous or controversial control measures whose success will depend on the extent to which everyone cooperates.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9080.html Dec 31, 2003 Dec 31, 2003

Key findings: --The level of bioterrorism preparedness across California's jurisdictions is uneven, ranging from excellent to poor. --There are wide variations in every aspect of preparedness strategy, development, and implementation. --The system su...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9042.html Dec 31, 2003 Dec 31, 2003

To aid the early detection of bioterror events, public health officials and researchers have developed a new method called syndromic surveillance.