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Texas A&M Launches Effort to Improve Health Preparedness
The Texas A&M Health Science Center has launched a new system aimed at improving response to infectious disease, environmental threats and natural disasters in the Rio Grande Valley, the San Antonio Business Journal reports. To be based in the border city of McAllen, the new Biosecurity and Import Safety Initiative will make efforts to ensure that local public health personnel, health providers and other health-related organizations have the tools necessary to recognize and respond to a public health emergency. The initiative will also allow such organizations to report potential health problems to local and regional public health authorities. Texas will appropriate $1 million over the next two years for three major areas of the initiative, including support of public health preparedness for urgent threats, provision of environmental health laboratory services to guard against threats to the water and food supply, and training opportunities for health professionals in the Rio Grande Valley region. Texas A&M, meanwhile, will coordinate service, research and education activities in the event of an emergency (San Antonio Business Journal, 9/23/09).