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December 1, 2010 | Report
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 ...
December 19, 2011 | News Release
Cuts to key programs could hurt ability to detect and respond to crises.
June 1, 2007 | Program Result Report
The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center provided intensive mental health treatment to people traumatized by the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.
January 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article presents data from medical reports following a large-scale, accidental release of chlorine gas in South Carolina. A terrorist attack involving the release of chlorine gas could cause the hospitalization of up to 100,000 people in an urban area.
October 20, 2009 | Program Result Report
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.
January 1, 2005 | Book
Turning Point: Collaborating for a New Century in Public Health was designed in a pre-September 11th world, between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, in an effort to transform the nation's public health system. The author examines the concept behind Turning Point, in particular, the notion of public-private-nongovernmental collaboration which lies at the heart of the program's vision. He describes the various activities of the Turning Point grantees and highlights their work in five states. Implementation of the program was slow and not always smooth. There were cultural differences between the two foundations which had to be addressed. Concern about bioterrorism preparedness and the infusion of federal funds complicated the initiative, forcing states to deal with terrorism as a transforming event, even as they tried to be the forces that would transform public health. By 2004, Turning Point had reached a funding level of more than $40 million and represents the largest privately funded attempt to strengthen the public health system in the nation's history.
February 24, 2009 | Program Result Report
The Task Force for Child Survival and Development established the Public Health Informatics Institute to strengthen the information systems used in public health practice and to promote collaborative strategies for that effort.
August 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
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 | Program Result Report
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.
June 1, 2005 | Program Result Report
Staff and members of the American Medical Informatics Association, Bethesda, Md., organized and held a conference in May 2003 entitled "Bridging the Digital Divide: Informatics and Vulnerable Populations."