Director's Seminars

OPHPR Director's Seminars support innovation in science through outreach to nontraditional scientific disciplines that may have a role in improving public health emergency preparedness and response as well as in other CDC programmatic areas.

At the seminars, world-renowned scientists present novel, demonstrated applications of science to preparedness and response programs. The seminars offer CDC scientists an opportunity to consider the potential applicability of unfamiliar scientific methods to preparedness as well as broader possibilities for leveraging this science.

Upcoming Director's Seminar

Enhancing Commercial Reactor Safety for the 21st Century
Martin J. Virgilio
Deputy Executive Director for Reactor and Preparedness Programs
U.S. Regulatory Commission

Date and Time

September 23, 2011
1:00-2:30pm

Location

Tom Harkin Global Communications Center, CDC
Auditorium A

More Information

ophprdirseminar@cdc.gov

Register for the seminar

Past Seminars

• Heidi Avery
  Deputy Assistant to the President for Homeland Security,
  National Security Council, The White House
  March 3, 2011
• Behavioral Health Surveillance in Disasters, Terrorism and Public Health Emergencies:
  What, Why and How Do We Understand
  Robert Ursano, MD
  Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Director, Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress,
  Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
  November 5, 2010
• Making Public Health Systems Disaster Research More Systematic and More Relevant: Barriers and Strategies Irwin Redlener, MD
  Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health and President and Co-Founder, Children's Health Fund
  May 27, 2010
• Countering Bioterrorism: What Do We Need To Do Better?
  Richard Danzig, JD, PhD
  Center for New American Security and Center for Strategic and International Studies
  July 1, 2009
• Emerging Threats and the Mission of Public Health
  Tara O'Toole, MD, MPH
  Center for Biosecurity, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
  February 4, 2009
• Pandemic Preparedness: Public Health's Battle of Waterloo?
  Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH
  Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, University of Minnesota
  May 30, 2008
• Quantitative Planning for Epidemic and Disaster Response: An Engineering and Supply Chain Approach to Public Health Response Logistics
  Jack Muckstadt, PhD and Nathaniel Hupert, MD, MPH
  Cornell University
  January 14, 2008