. Biodefense Reference Library
Resources for Strategic Planning & Project
Development
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The
Biodefense Reference Library is a collaborative initiative of international
medical, veterinary and scientific experts to share information and enhance
academic discussion of issues associated with preparedness, response,
mitigation and policy..
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Contact: Stephen M. Apatow, Director
of Research and Development, Humanitarian University
Consortium GraduateStudies
Center for Medicine,
Veterinary
Medicine and Law.
Email:
s.m.apatow@pathobiologics.org
In The Spotlight
- Biodefense Threat
Analysis Center: Pathobiologics International - An international
reference point for biosecurity.
- Biodefense: Education resources target medical and veterinary
professionals worldwide: (HRI) - Humanitarian Resource Institute
develops continuing education courses on both foreign animal and
zoonotic diseases.
- EHPNET: Humanitarian Resource Institute Emerging Infectious
Disease Network: Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP), an online
publication by the Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Environmental
Health Sciences (NIEHS), Volume 112, Number 1, January 2004..
- Mitigating a U.S. or International Agricultural
Incident: Expanding the discussion
of policy and regulatory options, to enhance cooperation, reduce vulnerability,
and modernize post-event recovery procedures.
Outbreaks: In The News
Also In The News:.
- Smallpox Discussion: Organ Transplants, Congenital or
Acquired Immunodeficiencies, HIV: Contingency planning for a potential
bioterrorist incident in the U.S. as well as African countries south of the
Sahara, South or South-East Asia, Eastern Europe, Carribean or Latin America.
- 2002: UK Foot and Mouth Epidemic Recovery:
In the light of the devastating agricultural, social and economic losses
associated with the 2001 FMD epidemic, it is crucial that policy directives
that address the scope of these challenging issues are available for immediate
implementation. See: United States FMD Vaccination Discussion: Analysis
of a Non-Vaccination Strategy Supplemented with Emergency Vaccination
- Agricultural Security: Veterinary and Scientific Experts
Outline Priority Issues: See: Humanitarian Resource Institute
Opens Tripartite 2000 Reports
- Mental Health: Coping with a National Tragedy, Chemical
or Biological Terrorism: Whether it is a September 11, influenza
or the the UK FMD crisis, this topic is of utmost importance.
Discussion Papers
BioTerrorism
JAMA:
Consensus-based recommendations for measures to be taken
by medical and public health professionals.
Antibiotic
Guide: John Hopkins Division of Infectious Diseases.
Lectures
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General Information
- Association for Infection
Control Practitioners
- CDC Health Alerts,
Advisories, and Updates: Public Health Emergency Preparedness &
Response.
- Centers
for Disease Control (CDC): Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal
- CDC: Special Issues, Dispatches, Commentary, Letters, Book
Review, News & Notes
- CDC: National
Center for Infectious Diseases
- CDC Travel Health
National Center for Infectious Diseases.
- Global Emerging Infections System
- Global
Outbreak Alert & Response Network: World
Health Organization.
- International
Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM) ISTM advocates and facilitates
education, service, and research activities in the field of travel medicine.
This includes: preventive and curative medicine within many specialties
such as tropical medicine, infectious diseases, high altitude physiology,
travel related obstetrics, psychiatry, occupational health, military and
migration medicine, and environmental health.
- GlobalHealth.gov:
Site developed U.S. Department of Health & Human Services to be a portal
of global health information for policymakers, researchers, doctors, and
the general public.
- Ministries
of Health and National surveillance Institutes around the world
- National Library
of Medicine: Biological Warfare. The website offers information
including incubation period, duration of illness, symptoms, means of transmission,
treatment, and prognosis for a comprehensive list of biological warfare
agents.
- Textbook of
Military Medicine: Medical Aspects of Chemical and Biological Warfare,
Office of the Surgeon General, Department of the Army.
- U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
- United States Geological Survey
- World Health Organization:
Communicable Disease Surveilance and Response (CSR)
- World Health Organization
(WHO): Weekly Epidemiological Record
General Veterinary Research & Publications
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