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At Hearing, House Homeland Security Subcommittee Chairman Cuellar Asks FEMA For New Preliminary Plan To Increase U.S. Community, Citizen Preparedness

October 5th, 2009 · No Comments

I attended a very interesting hearing on Capitol Hill late last week, “Preparedness: State of Citizen and Community Preparedness,” held by the House Subcommittee on Emergency Communications, Preparedness, and Response which is chaired by Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX).
At the hearing, Bill Jenkins Jr. from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) presented a preliminary report, Emergency Management Preliminary Observations on FEMA’s Community Preparedness Programs Related to [...]

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Tags: Congress · Preparedness Events · Preparedness Reports · Public Opinion · Research Studies

Report From Public Health Policy Group, Associated With New FDA Nominee Hamburg, Highlights Economic Crisis’ Impact On National, Local Emergency Preparedness

March 15th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Margaret Hamburg, who President Obama nominated Commissioner of the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) yesterday, is the Secretary of the Board of Directors for the Trust For America’s Health (TFAH), a leading nonpartisan public-health advocacy organization. Late last year, TFAH, along with the Robert Wood Johnson, released their sixth annual report, Ready or Not? 2008: Protecting the Public’s Health [...]

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Tags: Biological Terrorism · Research Studies

Public’s Cyber Security Role Highlighted In Report For U.S. Senate

February 22nd, 2009 · 3 Comments

The U.S. Senate Homeland Security Committee was just presented with a report pointing out that the user public (of all ages) has a role in the nation’s cyber security effort. The Committee had requested the study, National Cyber Security: Research and Development Challenges Related To Economics, Physical Infrastructure And Human Behavior from the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (I3P).
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Tags: Cyber Security · Research Studies