December 1, 2005
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The Century Foundation commissioned two background papers and convened a working group to study the ramifications of the increase in federal funding to state and local governments that followed the 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States.
June 1, 2004
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The Harvard School of Public Health, working with a polling firm, International Communications Research, conducted four national and three regional telephone surveys of public opinion and knowledge about the threat of bioterrorism in the United States.
October 1, 2003
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Between 2001 and 2002, researchers from the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago studied how Americans reacted to, and coped with, the terrorist attacks in New York City and the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., on September 11, 2001.
October 1, 2003
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The National Association of County and City Health Officials provided video streaming via the World Wide Web of seven sessions of its 2002 annual conference, "Working in a Changing World: Strengthening Public Health Preparedness."
December 1, 2003
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The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine worked to educate and promote communications among medical and public health professionals and policy-makers about bioterrorism, emerging infections and emergency preparedness.
September 1, 2011
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Remembering 9/11 and Anthrax: Public Health’s Vital Role in National Defense, released by Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), features more than 30 firsthand accounts of public health professionals who were dire ...
December 1, 2010
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related websites Trust for America's Health In the eighth annual Ready or Not? Protecting the Public from Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism report, 14 states scored nine or higher on 10 key indicators of public health preparedness. Three states ...
October 20, 2009
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The National Center for Child Traumatic Stress Network and the National Center for PTSD designed, printed and distributed the second edition of the Psychological First Aid Field Operations Guide.
August 1, 2006
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America's Health Together and 25 health and primary care organizations worked to enhance primary care providers' awareness of mental health issues and strengthen their capacity to care for their patients' emotional and psychological needs in a time of terrorism.
February 1, 2005
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Burness Communications, a public relations firm based in Bethesda, Md., provided communications assistance to four public health and policy organizations to help them address the issue of the public health system's preparedness to deal with bioterrorism.