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Public Health Preparedness Summit, Anaheim, CA, February 21 - 24, 2012

Public Health Preparedness Summit, San Diego, CA, February 18, 2009 7th UCLA Conference on Public Health and Disasters, Torrance, CA, May 21, 2008


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PERRC Peer-Reviewed Publications (as of 4/26/2012) Listed by Institute of Medicine Priorities

The research conducted at PERRCs address several of the research priorities recommended by the Institute of Medicine (IOM). PERRC publications are listed below under the related IOM research priority. The findings from these projects will be used to help improve public health practice for preparedness and emergency response planning and policies at the local, state, federal and tribal levels.

Enhance the Usefulness of Training:

Improve Communications in Preparedness and Response:

Create and Maintain Sustainable Preparedness and Response Systems:

Generate Criteria and Metrics to Measure Effectiveness and Efficiency:

Cross-Cutting IOM Priorities

Vulnerable Populations:

  • Chamberlain A T, Seib K, Wells K , Hannan C ,. Orenstein W A , Whitney E A S  , Hinman A R  , Berkelman R L, Omer S B . Perspectives of Immunization Program Managers on 2009-10 H1N1 Vaccination in the United States: A National Survey  Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science. Online ahead of print February 23, 2012. doi:10.1089/bsp.2011.0077 – Emory University

  • Magee M, Isakov A, Paradise HT, Sullivan P. Mobile phones and short message service texts to collect situational awareness data during simulated public health critical events. American Journal of Disaster Medicine. 2011 Nov-Dec; 6(6):379-85 – Emory University

  • Calhoun R, Young D, Meischke H, Allen S. Practice, More Practice: Improving Our Service to Limited-English Callers. Washington State Journal of Public Health Practice, 2009 June 2 (1): 34-37 – University of Washington

  • Ong B, Yip M, Feng S, Calhoun R, Meischke H, Tu SP. Barriers and Facilitators to Using 9-1-1 and Emergency Medical Services in a Limited English Proficiency Chinese Community . Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 1 February 2011 – University of Washington

  • Quinn, S., Kumar, S., Freimuth, V., Musa, D., Casteneda‐Angarita, N., & Kidwell, K. Racial Disparities in Exposure, Susceptibility, and Access to Health Care in the US H1N1 Influenza PandemicAm J Public Health, Feb 2011; 101: 285 – 293. - University of Pittsburgh

  • Yip MP, Ong B, Meischke H, Calhoun R, Ida Lam, and Tu SP. The Role of Self-Efficacy in Communication and Emergency Response in Chinese Limited English Proficiency (LEP) Populations. Health Promotion Practice, 2011 Apr 1. – University of Washington

  • Yip MP, Ong B, Painter I, Meischke H, Calhoun R, and Tu SP. Information-seeking Behaviors and Response to the H1N1 Outbreak in Chinese Limited-English Proficient Individuals Living in King County, Washington. American Journal of Disaster Medicine, 2009 Nov-Dec, 4(6):353- 360 – University of Washington

Workforce:
  • Schuh R G, Eichelberger T R, Stebbins S, Pomer B Duran L, Mahoney J F, Keane C, Lin C J, Potter M A. Developing a Measure of Local Agency Adaptation to Emergencies: A Metric. Evaluation and Program Planning. Volume 35, Issue 4, November 2012, Pages 473–480.  E-Pub February 24, 2012 – University of Pittsburgh

  • Watson CM, Barnett DJ, Thompson CB, Hsu EB, Catlett CL, Gwon HS, Semon NL, Balicer RD, Links JM. Characterizing public health emergency perceptions and influential modifiers of willingness to respond among pediatric healthcare staff. American Journal of Disaster Medicine. 2011 Sep-Oct; 6(5):299-308 – Johns Hopkins University

  • Kumar S, Quinn SC, Kim KH, Daniel LH, Freimuth VS. The Impact of Workplace Policies and Other Social Factors on Self-Reported Influenza-Like Illness Incidence During the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic. American Journal of Public Health, 2011 Nov 17. [Epub ahead of print] – University of Pittsburgh

  • Barnett DJ, Balicer RD, Thompson CB, Storey JD, Omer SB, et al. 2009 Assessment of Local Public Health Workers’ Willingness to Respond to Pandemic Influenza through Application of the Extended Parallel Process Model . PLoS ONE 4(7): e6365.doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006365 – Johns Hopkins

  • Barnett DJ, Levine R, Thompson CB, Wijetunge GU, Oliver AL, et al. (2010) Gauging U.S. Emergency Medical Services Workers’ Willingness to Respond to Pandemic Influenza Using a Threat- and Efficacy-Based Assessment Framework. PLoS ONE 5(3): e96856 – Johns Hopkins

  • Balicer RD, Barnett DJ, Thompson CB, Hsu EB, Catlett CL, Watson CM, Semon NL, Gwon HS, and Links JM, Characterizing hospital workers' willingness to report to duty in an influenza pandemic through threat- and efficacy-based assessment. BMC Public Health. 2010; 10: 436 – Johns Hopkins

  • Horney JA, Markiewicz M, Meyer AM, Macdonald PD. Support and Services Provided by Public Health Regional Surveillance Teams to Local Health Departments in North Carolina.  Journal of Public Health Management Practice; 2011 Jan-Feb; 17(1):E7-13le – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

  • Monahan, C; Ullberg, L.; Harvey, K. Virtual Emergency Preparedness Planning Using Second Life, Service Operations, IEEE/INFORMS International Conference on Logistics and Informatics, 2009. SOLI 09. Volume, Issue, 22-24 July 2009:306 – 310 – University of Minnesota

  • Revere D, Nelson K, Thiede H, Duchin J, Stergachis A, Baseman J. Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Communications with Health Care Providers: A Literature Review.  BMC Public Health 2011, 11:337. – University of Washington

Legal and Ethical Issues:

  • Balicer RD, Barnett DJ, Thompson CB, Hsu EB, Catlett CL, Watson CM, Semon NL, Gwon HS, and Links JM, Characterizing hospital workers' willingness to report to duty in an influenza pandemic through threat- and efficacy-based assessment. BMC Public Health. 2010; 10: 436 – Johns Hopkins
  • Hodge, JG, Rutkow L, Corcoran, AJ. A Hidden Epidemic: Assessing The Legal Environment Underlying Mental and Behavioral Health Conditions in Emergencies  Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy, 2010; 4(1): 33-92 – Johns Hopkins

  • Hodge JG, Rutkow L, Corcoran AJ. Mental and behavioral health legal preparedness in major emergencies. Public Health Reports 2010; 125:759-762 – Johns Hopkins

  • Lempel H, Hammond R, Epstein J. “Economic Cost and Health Care Workforce Effects of School Closures in the U.S.” PLoS Currents: Influenza, 2009 Oct 5; 1:RRN10512009. - University of Pittsburgh

  • Quinn SC, Kumar S, Freimuth VS, Kidwell K, Musa D. Public willingness to take a vaccine or drug under Emergency Use Authorization during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. Biosecurity and Bioterrorism. 2009 Sep; 7(3):275-90.- University of Pittsburgh

  • Quinn, S., Kumar, S., Freimuth, V., Musa, D., Casteneda‐Angarita, N., & Kidwell, K. Racial Disparities in Exposure, Susceptibility, and Access to Health Care in the US H1N1 Influenza PandemicAm J Public Health, Feb 2011; 101: 285 – 293. - University of Pittsburgh

  • Rabins PV, Kass NE, Rutkow L, Vernick JS, Hodge JG. Challenges for mental health services raised by disaster preparedness: mapping the ethical and therapeutic terrain.  Biosecurity & Bioterrorism. Volume 9, Number 2, 2011. Epub 10 April, 2011 – Johns Hopkins

  • Galarce E.M., Minsky S., Viswanath K. Socioeconomic status, demographics, beliefs and A(H1N1) vaccine uptake in the United States . Vaccine, Volume 29, Issue 32, 18 July 2011, 5284 - 5289 – Harvard

  • Rutkow L, Gable L, Links JM. Protecting the mental health of first responders: legal and ethical considerations . Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 2011; 39Supp.1:56-59. – Johns Hopkins

  • Kumar S, Quinn SC, Kim KH, Musa D, Hilyard LM, Freimuth VS. The Social Ecological Model as a Framework for Determinants of 2009 H1N1 Influenza Vaccine Uptake in the United States. Health Education Behavior. Epub 2011 Oct 7 – University of Pittsburgh

  • Thomas JC, Young S. Wake me when there’s a crisis: Progress on state pandemic influenza ethics preparedness. American Journal of Public Health, November 2011, Vol. 101, No. 11, pp. 2080-2082 – University of North Carolina

  • Rutkow L, Vernick JS, Wissow LS, Kaufmann CN, Hodge JG. Prescribing authority during emergencies: challenges for mental health care providers. J Leg Med. 2011; 32:249-260. – Johns Hopkins

 

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