Links and Resources

State

• California Department of Health Services.  California Bioterrorism Surveillance and Epidemiologic Resource Plan, January 2002. 
  
  
• California Department of Health Services.  Division of Disease Control Bioterrorism Epidemiology Section.  Home Page.
  
  
• California Department of Health Services Emergency Response Plan February 2007
  
  
• California Department of Health Services, Title 17, California Code of Regulations
  (CCR), Section 2505 - REPORTABLE CONDITIONS: NOTIFICATION BY LABORATORIES
  
  
• State of California Emergency Preparedness Office
  
  
• State of California, Government Code.  Reportable Deaths (Coroner's Cases) Section 27491. February 2007
  

Local

• City of Long Beach Disaster Management Home page. February 2007
  
  
• County of Los Angeles Department of Health Services.  Emergency Preparedness & Response.  Home Page. 
  
  
• Los Angeles County Department of Health Services.  Bioterrorism Readiness Report, November 2005. 
  
  
• Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.  Communicable disease reporting system January 2007
  
  
• University California Los Angeles Center for Public Health and Disasters home page.  February 2007
  
  

Regional/National

• 101 Session of Congress Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989.  February 2007
  
  
• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. A primer on health risk communication principles and practices.
  
  
• American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Emergency Preparedness/Disaster Response. January 2007.
  
  
• American Psychiatric Association. Home Page. January 2002.
  
  
• CDC. CDC Responds: Risk Communication and Bioterrorism, Thursday, December 6, 2001. Webcast.
  
  
• CDC. CDC Responds: Smallpox: What Every Clinician Should Know, Dec. 13th, 2001.Webcast
  
  
• CDC. CDC Responds: Update on Options for Preventive Treatment for Persons at Risk for Inhalational Anthrax, Dec 21, 2001.Webcast
  
  
• CDC. Comprehensive procedures for collecting environmental samples for culturing Bacillus anthracis, revised April 2002.
  
  
• CDC. Cooperative agreement U90/CCUXXXXXX-03-X public health preparedness and response for bioterrorism.
  
  
• CDC Epidemiology Program Office. Excellence in curriculum integration through teaching epidemiology (Web-based curriculum).
  
  
• CDC. Packaging critical biological agents.
  
  
• CDC. Protecting investigators performing environmental sampling for Bacillus anthracis:  personal protective equipment.
  
  
• CDC. Updated guidelines for evaluating public health surveillance systems: recommendations from the Guidelines Working Group. MMWR. 2001; 50(RR13):1-35.
  
  
• Center for Disease Control and Prevention
  
  
• Centers for Disease Control, Office of Health and Safety & National Institutes of Health. Biosafety in microbiological and biomedical laboratories (4th Ed), 1999: Washington DC.
  
  
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, American Society for Microbiology & American Public Health Laboratories. Basic diagnostic testing protocols for level A laboratories.
  
  
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response. January 2007.
  
  
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Smallpox vaccination and adverse events training module, 2002.
  
  
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention & World Health Organization. Infection control for viral haemorrhagic fevers in the African health care setting.
  
  
• Center for Health Policy, Columbia University School of Nursing. Bioterrorism and emergency preparedness home page February 2007
  
  
• Center for the Study of Bioterrorism and Emerging Infections at Saint Louis University School of Public Health. Home Page. January 2007.
  
  
• Columbia School of Nursing : Bioterrorism and Emergency Preparedness Public Health Competencies
  
  
• Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Center for Mental Health Services. Disaster manual for mental health and human services workers in major disasters.
  
  
• Environmental Protection Agency. Emergency planning and community right-to-know act overview. 
  
  
• Federal Emergency Management Agency. Emergency management guide for business & industry. Home Page February 2007
  
  
• Environmental Protection Agency. EPA’s Strategic Plan for Homeland Security.
  
  
• Environmental Protection Agency. EPA’s Emergency response organizational structure (slide set).
  
  
• Federal Emergency Management Agency. Independent study course on the incident command system.
  
  
• Federal Emergency Management Agency & United States Fire Administration-National Fire Academy. Emergency response to terrorism: self-study (ERT:SS) (Q534), February 2003.
  
  
• FEMA (CERT process)
  
  
• Health Resources and Services Administration
  
  
• List of nationally notifiable infectious diseases.
  
  
• Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health Preparedness. Home Page. January 2007.
  
  
• Journal of the American Medical Association. Bioterrorism articles. January 2007.
  
  
• The Library of Congress.  107 Session of Congress U.S. Patriot Act of 2001.  February 2007
  
  
• Medical response in emergencies: HHS role.
  
  
• Washington State Department of Health. Home Page. January 2007.
  
  
• University of California, Los Angeles
  
  
• University of Washington: Northwest Center for Disaster Preparedness
  
  
• University of New Mexico: Center for Disaster Medicine
  
  
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  
  
• U.S. Department of Homeland Security. National Response Plan.  Home Page. 
  
  
• U.S. Department of Homeland Security.  Ready America Home page.  Information for all types of emergencies as well as state contact information.  February 2007
  
  
• Washington state comprehensive emergency management plan.

Resources

• Auf der Heide, E (2003), Disaster response: Principles of Preparation and Coordination
  http://orgmail2.coe-dmha.org/dr/Static.htm
  
  
• Bardi J. Aftermath of a hypothetical smallpox disaster. Emerging Infect Dis [serial online] 1999 Jul-Aug; 5(4): 547-51
  http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/index.htm
  
  
• Bolyard EA, Tablan OC, Williams WW, Pearson ML, Shapiro CN, Deithman SD. HICPAC. Guideline for infection control in health care personnel, 1998. Am J Infect Control 1998;26:289-354.
  http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dhqp/pdf/guidelines/InfectControl98.pdf
  
  
• Butler JC, Mitchell LC, Friedman CR, Scripp RM, Watz CG. Collaboration between public health and law enforcement: new paradigms and partnerships for bioterrorism planning and response. Emerging Infect Dis [serial online] 2002 Oct; 8(10):1152-55.
  http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/index.htmDoyle, C.  (1996)
   
• Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996: A Summary Retrieved on February 14, 2007 from
  http://www.fas.org/irp/crs/96-499.htm
  
  
• Fulco CE, Liverman CT, Sox HC, eds. Gulf War and Health: Volume 1. Depleted Uranium, Pyridostigmine Bromide, Sarin, and Vaccines, 2000: Washington DC. URL:
  http://www.nap.edu. 
  
  
• Galvin, J.E., Atchison & C., Levey, S.  (2005)  Public Health Strategy and the Police Powers of the State.  Public Health Reports.  120;sup1: 20-27.  http://www.publichealthreports.org/userfiles/120_SUP1/120020sup.pdf
  
  
• Gostin, L.O.& Hodge, J.G.  (n.d.) Reforming Alaska Public Health Law. 
  http://www.publichealthlaw.net/Resources/ResourcesPDFs/Alaska.pdf
  
  
• Jernigan JA, Stephens DS, Ashford DA, Omenaca C, Topiel MS, Galbraith M et al. Bioterrorism-related inhalational anthrax: the first 10 cases reported in the United States. Emerging Infect Dis [serial online] 2001 Jul-Aug; 7(6): 933-44.
  http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/index.htm
  
  
• Koo, D. Public health surveillance (slide set).
  http://www.cdc.gov/epo/dphsi/phs/overview.htm
  
  
• Kuzler, P.  (2005)  Public Health Law in the Age of Terrorism.  February  2007
  http://www.nwcphp.org/docs/edu/iphl/module/
  
  
• Lober WB, Karras BT, Wagner MM, Overhage JM, Davidson AJ, Fraser H, et al.Roundtable on bioterrorism detection: information system–based surveillance. JAMIA 2002;9:105-115. http://www.jamia.org/cgi/content/full/9/2/105
  
  
• Pavlin JA. Epidemiology of bioterrorism. Emerging Infect Disease [serial online] 1999 Jul-Aug; 5(4).
  http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/index.htm
  
  
• Phillips, M.B. (2005) Bioterrorism, a Brief History. North East Florida Medicine:  Focus on Bioterrorism February 2007
  http://www.dcmsonline.org/jax-medicine/2005journals/bioterrorism/bioterrorism_history.pdf
  
  
• Rotz LD, Khan AS, Lillebridge SR. Public health assessment of potential biological terrorism agents. Emerging Infect Dis [serial online] 2002;8(2):225-230.
  http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/pastcon.htm
  
  
• Tucker JB. Historical trends related to bioterrorism: an empirical analysis. Emerging Infect Disease [serial online] 1999 Jul-Aug; 5(4).
  http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/index.htm
  
  
• Wilhemi, J. & Kremer, F.  (2003) Environmental Protection Agency.  Report on the Homeland Security Workshop on Transport and Disposal of Wastes From Facilities Contaminated With Chemical or Biological Agents
  http://www.epa.gov/NHSRC/pubs/reportFacilityWaste110104.pdf
  
  
• Zajtchuk R, Bellamy RF, eds. Textbook of military medicine: medical aspects of chemical and biological warfare. Office of The Surgeon General Department of the Army, United States of America.
  http://ccc.apgea.army.mil/reference_materials/textbook/HTML_Restricted/index.htm