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2006 Public Health Preparedness: Cross-Borders Issues Roundtable
Lessons Learned: Models for Planning and Response

 

May 2, 2006
Bloomington, Minnesota

Purpose

Recent natural disasters and current concerns about pandemic influenza highlight our interdependence and need for collaboration. This program is intended to increase understanding regarding common components of existing collaborations and provide participants the opportunity to learn from identified strengths and weaknesses of cross-border emergency preparedness planning models that have been developed.

Method

Presenters with practical experience in these collaborations will identify components, strengths, weaknesses and problem solving strategies that contribute to enhancing preparedness across borders. Small group session will focus on practical application of ‘lessons learned’.

Audience

Lead public health emergency preparedness planning personnel at the state level, lawmakers, governors’ office representatives, policymakers, representatives from state associations of counties, representatives from national/international industries / corporations, and local health department representatives from state and national boundary areas, tribal preparedness representatives, and other preparedness partners.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this Roundtable, participants will be able to:

  1. Summarize key planning components necessary for developing cross-border collaboration.
  2. Identify key processes and personnel necessary for developing cross-border collaboration.
  3. Describe strategies that contributed to successful collaboration across state and national borders.
  4. Describe collaboration building strategies derived from lessons learned.
  5. Identify challenges related to the public/private collaboration in emergencies.
  6. Develop at least one strategy for creating or enhancing cross-border preparedness collaboration applicable to their jurisdiction.

Presentations

The presentations from this meeting were digitally recorded and are available as archived webcasts. To view the web cast you must have the FREE RealOne player installed on your machine. This player can be found on the Real.com web site.

I. Overview of Current Domestic and US/Canadian Border
Public Health Collaborative Efforts
U.S. Perspective / Dan Stier - Video | Slides (pdf)
Canadian Perspective / Wayne Dauphinee - Video | Slides (pdf)

II. Regional Programs Crossing Canadian Border
Pacific Northwest Initiative / Wayne Turnberg - Video | Slides (pdf)
Great Lakes Border Initiative - Katherine Allen-Bridson - Video | Slides (pdf)
Speakers will address:

  • Key domestic features / program characteristics
  • Key personnel
  • Key international features
  • Strategies employed to build alliances, including the role of policymakers
  • Strengths/Weaknesses and Lessons learned
  • Challenges and successes related to public/private collaborations, including health care systems

III. State to State/Regional Initiative- Mid-America Alliance / Kathy Hastings - Video | Slides (pdf)
Speakers will address:

  • Key features / program characteristics
  • Key personnel
  • Strategies employed to build alliances, including the role of policymakers
  • Strengths/Weaknesses and Lessons learned
  • Challenges and successes related to public/private collaborations, including health care systems

IV. Health Systems and Business Perspectives
Health Care Industry - Frederick V. Peterson - Video | Slides (pdf)
Private Industry - Gary Olmstead - Slides (pdf)

V. Local Collaborations - Video | Slides (pdf)
Minnesota Department of Health - Karen Moser
Fargo Cass Public Health - James Hausauer
Speakers will address

  • Key features / program characteristics
  • Key personnel
  • Strategies employed to build alliances, including the role of policymakers
  • Strengths/Weaknesses and Lessons learned
  • Challenges and successes related to public/private collaborations, including health care systems

Presenters

Katherine Allen-Bridson, RN, BSN, CIC, Border Health Program Coordinator, Michigan Department of Community Health, Lansing, Michigan

Christopher Atchison, MPA, Associate Dean for Public Health Practice, University of Iowa College of Public Health; Director, Upper Midwest Center for Public Health Preparedness, Iowa City, Iowa

Wayne Dauphinee, MPH, Executive Director, Emergency Management Branch, Ministry of Health, British Columbia; Co-Chair- Emergency Preparedness and Response Expert Group, Pan-Canadian Public Health Network, Victoria, British Columbia

Kathy Hastings, JD, MPH, RN, FAAN, Director, Mid America Alliance, Broomfield, Colorado

James Hausauer, REHS, Emergency Preparedness and Response Coordinator Region V, Fargo Cass Public Health, Fargo, North Dakota

Karen Moser, Public Health Preparedness Consultant, Minnesota Department of Health, Fergus Falls, Minnesota

Debra Olson, MPH, RN, Associate Dean for Public Health Practice, University of Minnesota School of Public Health; Director, University of Minnesota Center for Public Health Preparedness, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Gary Olmstead, PhD, CIH, CSP, CHMM, Corporate Director of Safety and Environmental Management, General Mills; Adjunct Professor, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Frederick V. Peterson, Jr, MPH, Director of Constituent Services, Hospital Council of Western Pennsylvania, Warrendale, Pennsylvania

Dan Stier, JD, Public Health Analyst, Public Health Law Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia

Wayne Turnberg, PhD Candidate, MSPH, Cross-Border Surveillance Workshop Coordinator, Bioterrorism Epidemiologist, Office of Communicable Disease Epidemiology, Washington State Department of Health, Shoreline, Washington

Sponsors

University of Minnesota Center for Public Health Preparedness
University of Iowa Upper Midwest Center for Public Health Preparedness

Meeting Reports