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3/4/07-3/6/07 |
The National Emergency Management Summit—New Orleans, Louisiana
Sponsors: “Health Affairs,” “Harvard Health Policy Review,” and Louisiana Hospital Association. An extraordinary confluence of events, both environmental and geopolitical, has coalesced to create a heightened risk of natural disasters, epidemics, and terrorism in the United States. The summit seeks to assess these risks and articulate practical approaches to strategies of planning, response, and recovery focusing on the special challenges that health care organizations face in emergency situations. Find out more at www.emergencymanagementsummit.com/. |
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4/10/07-4/13/07 |
Analyzing Risk: Science, Assessment, and Management—Boston, Massachusetts:
Organizers: Harvard School of Public Health, Division of Continuing Professional Education and Center for Risk Analysis. Risk analysis plays an important role in environmental and public health decision making, and recent executive orders and regulatory guidelines ensure that it will have increasing prominence in upcoming years. This program provides education about current risk analysis methods, how risk analysis is interpreted, and how it influences regulatory decision making. It is designed for industrial, regulatory, and public health professionals responsible for managing, conducting, or evaluating risk assessments associated with occupational, food-borne, or environmental hazards. For more information, visit: www.hsph.harvard.edu/ccpe/programs/RISK.shtml |
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4/19/07 |
Online symposium series: Public Health Preparedness
http://www.asph.org/cphp/CPHP_viewevent.cmf?k=466 |
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5/6/07 |
6th UCLA Conference on Public Health and Disasters. Torrance, CA
http://www.cphd.ucla.edu |
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5/13/07 |
15th World Conference in Disasters and Emergency Management--Amsterdam: The Netherlands. Organizer: World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine. This congress aims to catalyze thought processes and to come up with very clear products to better prepare experts, organizations, and governments for the next disaster or crisis. The central themes will be preparedness, knowledge, training, and networks. Attendees will include policy makers, researchers, clinicians, responders, planners, administrators, and other experts from around the world who have interest in the most urgent medical and humanitarian problems of the 21st century. To learn more, see http://www.wcdem2007.org/. |
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5/20/07-5/23/07 |
GIS in Public Health Conference--
Organizer: Urban and Regional Information Systems Association. This is an inaugural conference on the use of geographic information systems and spatial analysis for hazard preparedness, emergency response, disease surveillance, outbreak epidemiology, public health advocacy, and other related issues. See www.urisa.org/conferences/health. |
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5/22/07-5/24/07 |
Three day course. Emergency Medical Services: Operations and Planning for Weapons of Mass Destruction San Pedro, provided by Homeland Security. To register, email: fadi.essmaeel@mail.house.gov |
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