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Just after a public health emergency was declared due to the H1N1 virus, the Harvard Opinion Research Program at the Harvard School of Public Health conducted a survey to find out how concerned Americans are about the outbreak, how they are responding and what they believe about transmission, prevention and treatment. It was released this morning. The [...]

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At a webinar promoting September’s National Preparedness Month activities, officials from The Advertising Council and the U.S. Homeland Security Department’s Ready.Gov program said that their most recent tracking polls indicate that citizen emergency preparedness is “leveling off”. (The webinar took place earlier this month before Swine Flu was diagnosed in the U.S.) Some of the results that underlie the [...]

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I just read an interesting new study, “Resilient Nation,” by Charlie Edwards from the London office of the think tank, Demos. Resilience is a concept that has been talked about a good deal here in the U.S., and this report is a very useful addition to that discussion. Though the majority of the case studies/stories in “Resilient Nation” [...]

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The influential University of Pittsburgh Center for Biosecurity has just released a series of “Biosecurity Memos to the Obama Administration” with “strategic recommendations regarding priorities for U.S. biosecurity as well as an array of specific program recommendations.”
One of the papers is titled, ”Expanding The Public’s Role In Health Emergency Policy”, written by Monica Schoch-Spana, Brooke Courtney and Ann Norwood. It offers [...]

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