October 11-12, 2006
Sheraton National, Arlington, VA
Registration & Continental Breakfast: 7:30-8:30am
Program Starts: 8:30am
Wrap-Up: 4:00pm (Day One), 12:30pm (Day Two)
The following additional Homeland Defense Journal Training Courses and Workshops are also available.
For more information, please go to our home page at www.homelanddefencejournal.com
- Obtaining Your DoD Security Clearance Workshop
Arlington, Va., June 13-14, 2006 - Managing Today’s Threats to Homeland Security Conference: With a Special Focus on Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN),
Arlington, Va., June 15, 2006 - Target Analysis & Vulnerability Assessment: An Interactive Workshop on Conducting Facility Vulnerability Assessments
Falls Church, Va., June 20-22, 2006
A VIDEO HIGHLIGHT OF THIS TRAINING IS AVAILABLE AT WWW.HOMELANDDEFENSEJOURNAL.COM - Emergency Alert and Notification Solutions for Government and Business Conference
Including Mobile and Wireless, Radio Communications, VoIP, Sirens and Lights, Outdoor Warning Systems, Weather Alerts, and other Communication Systems, Washington, DC, June 29, 2006 - Practical and Effective Evaluations of Security Officer Performance
Arlington, Va., July 10-11 2006 - Best Practices for Defending Against Insider Threats to Proprietary Data Conference: For Government & Commercial Legal, Privacy, Facility, IT & Security Managers,
Arlington, Va., July 19, 2006
About This Conference: Preparing for Pandemic Influenza
Last month, President Bush outlined the United States’ strategy to safeguard against the danger of pandemic influenza. Once a pandemic develops, it can spread rapidly causing disease around the world. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) predicts that as much as 25% to 30% of the US population could be affected. Our government - and governments around the world - needs to improve the nation’s ability to detect outbreaks early, expand vaccine production capacity, stockpile influenza treatments. This conference will stress the importance of national, state, and local preparedness to respond to a pandemic so that we can ensure the health and safety of our people in the face of this ominous threat.
The U.S. has created a National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza to promote an effective response throughout an influenza pandemic. With the combined efforts of government officials and the public health, medical, veterinary, and law enforcement communities, as well as the private sector, the nation’s strategy is designed to meet three critical goals: detecting human or animal outbreaks that occur anywhere in the world; protecting the American people by stockpiling vaccines and antiviral drugs while improving the capacity to produce new vaccines; and preparing to respond at the federal, state, and local levels in the event that an influenza pandemic reaches the United States, which is likely should a pandemic occur. While a pandemic response is primarily a public health response, many agencies, organizations, and private institutions will need to work in a coordinated and collaborative manner to ensure an effective overall response to such a crisis.
The Preparing for Pandemic Influenza conference will bring together an influential gathering of medial and public health leaders to review and discuss the National Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Plan and our nation’s preparedness and response efforts and goals. Medical, clinical and epidemiological experts will present the most current information related to surveillance, specific contingency plans, vaccine and drug production and stockpiling, risk communication, and the role of federal, state and local governments in responding to a new influenza pandemic.
What will you Learn
- How an influenza pandemic can impact your community or business
- What measures you should implement to best prepare
- Why continuous global surveillance of influenza is essential
- How preparing for the next influenza pandemic can provide benefits now (i.e., improvements in public health infrastructure can have immediate and lasting benefits, and can also mitigate the effect of other epidemics or infectious disease threats
- The importance of testing your planning assumptions and response capacities, and having the most up-to-date information on potential pandemic strains and subsequent disease
- How to strengthen local capacity to respond to epidemics of influenza
- What you need to know about stockpiling medical supplies and antiviral drugs, and how the federal government is helping
- What are the latest technologies for preparing a pandemic?
- Current vaccine and vaccine capacity developments that are under way
- Who are the major players in setting policies and establishing funding for pandemic preparedness?
- Public health guidance for state and local partners
- What, if anything, you can do individually to reduce the risk of pandemic influenza
- What are the signs and symptoms in humans to look out for?
- How to prepare, maintain, update, and exercise an operational plan that itemized specific roles and responsibilities in the event of an influenza pandemic
- International efforts, outreach, and resources
Who Should Attend
- City, County, State and Federal Emergency Planners and Public Health Professionals
- Hospital-based Disaster and Emergency Planners and Healthcare Providers, including doctors, nurses, Paramedics and EMT’s, and allied health professionals
- Hospital and Healthcare Administrators, CEO’s and COO’s
- Clinicians and First Responder Personnel (EMT, paramedics, etc.)
- Primary Medical Care Professionals
- Logisticians and Planners
- Anyone in the emergency and preventive medicine sectors who are concerned with or unsure about their roles in the response to an influenza pandemic
- Federal Partner Agencies and their personnel who are involved with the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza
- Companies with products, services and solutions designed to aid in US medical response to pandemic disease and mass casualty events
Executive Steering Committee
The Executive Steering Committee develops the overall training conference strategy, provides guidance on key topics and speakers and provides overall advice with respect to the content and its application in a management/decision-making environment. The Executive Steering Committee for this conference includes:
Edward M. Eitzen, Jr., MD, MPH, Senior Partner, Martin & Associates.
Conference Agenda/Speakers:
To be Announced Soon
Sponsors
Martin & Associates, Inc. (M&A)
Homeland Defense Journal
IT*Security Magazine
Telemus Solutions
Wireless Communications Association, International
Registration Charges
Industry - $695 per person
Small Business (100 employees or less) - $645 per person
Government - $595 per person
Registration Options
- Online with your credit card using our online booking form at www.marketaccess.org/booking_form.asp
- Fax our registration form provided below to (703) 807-2728
- Phone Pamela Greenstein at (703) 807-2758
- E-mail Pamela Greenstein at pgreenstein@marketaccess.org
- Mail our registration form provided below to:
Homeland Defense Journal
4301 Wilson Blvd. #1003,
Arlington, VA 22203
Registrations are payable by Visa, Mastercard, American Express, check or government purchase order.
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Location/Hotel Information
The conference will be held at the Sheraton National, 900 S. Orme Street, Arlington, VA 22204, (703) 521-1900. For details, please see our website at www.homelanddefensejournal.com
Contact Us
- For registration information, contact Pamela Greenstein at pgreenstein@marketaccess.org or (703) 807-2758
- For government speaking and best practices presentation opportunities, please contact Laura Johnson, (703) 807-2747
To download a PDF of planned training conferences and workshops for 2006, please go to our home page at www.homelanddefensejournal.com