National Community Health Resilience Workshop

Near Final Version 

2011 Community Health Resilience Workshop AGENDA

DAY 1

8:30-8:50 - Welcome, Introductions and Opening Remarks

Alexander Garza, Assistant Secretary for Health Affairs and Chief Medical Officer, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) (invited)

George W. Korch Jr., Ph.D., Senior Science Advisor, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) (tentative)

8:50-9:10 – Keynote

Brian Kamoie, Senior Director for Preparedness Policy, White House National Security Staff (invited)

9:10-10:00 - Session 1:  Identifying the Broad, Diverse Health Information User Community

This session uses two scenarios to facilitate discussion—a natural disaster scenario with extensive health impacts and a severe disease outbreak to examine the range of community health information “users” from public heath and healthcare professionals to non-health associated users in law enforcement, agriculture, food production and distribution, supply chains, etc.

Scenario 1:  Major Hurricane

Scenario 2:  E. Coli Outbreak. 

Discussion Questions:

• What organizations need information and for what purposes?
• Where and how could this information be obtained?
• How is this information used in decision-making?

Session Facilitators: 

Jeffrey Stiefel, Ph.D., Senior Health Threats Advisor, Office of Health Affairs, DHS

Paula Scalingi, Ph.D. Executive Director, Bay Area Center for Regional Disaster Resilience and President, The Scalingi Group

10:00 -10:20 – Break

10:20-12:10 - Roundtable Discussion:  Snapshot user perspectives followed by interactive discussion on their current health resilience information needs, capabilities, and barriers that can impede information sharing, including security and proprietary data considerations and policy and regulatory issues

Roundtable Moderator

Darrin Donato, Senior Policy Analyst, Division for At-Risk Individuals, Behavioral Health, and Community Resilience (ABC), ASPR, HHS

·                Local  Government - Dr. Reuben Varghese, Chief of the Public Health Division, Arlington, VA, (invited)

-   Wilma Wooten,  Public Health Director, San Diego County

·                State - (?)

·       Healthcare Providers - Wendell Potter, Senior Analyst, Center for Public Integrity,

·       Private Sector - (Nicolle ________, Target;

·       Federal  -   Joseph Reardon, Deputy Director, Division of Federal-State Relations,

                          Office of Regulatory Affairs, U.S. Food & Drug Administration

-   F. Christy Music, Program Director, Health/Medical Policy and Programs OASD(Homeland Defense & Americas’ Security Affairs), U.S. Department of Defense

·       Non-Profit - Russ Paulsen, Executive Director, Program Management Office,

                                      American Red Cross

12:15 - 1:30 Lunch 

1:15-2:30 – Session 3: Developing a Community Health Resilience Information Framework: 

                    Examples of Current Initiatives and Capabilities that Could Contribute

Panel moderator -

·       HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology  Overview of the evolution of and status of health information exchange initiatives

             Deborah Lafky, (need title)

·       National Center for Bio Preparedness

Tim Stephens, Chair, Strategy and Partnerships, NCBP

Tom McGinn, Office of Health Affairs, U.S. DHS)

·       Hospital-Related Health Information Sharing Capabilities

 Carl Taylor, Assistant Dean at U. of South Alabama (invited)

2:30 – 2:50   Break

2:50 - 3:30   Session 3:  Continuation of Presentations on Current Initiatives and Capabilities

—  MedMap and At-Risk Individuals

Moira Shea, At-Risk Individuals Team Lead, ABC, ASPR, HHS

Tim Jackson, Policy Analyst, ABC, ASPR, HHS

—  PsySTART Triage and Neighbor to Neighbor Initiative

Rob Yin, LISW, Manager, Disaster Mental Health, American Red Cross National Headquarters (tentative)

·       Capabilities for Meeting Resilience Challenges of  Crisis Standards of Care

 Merritt D. Schreiber, Ph.D., Associate Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine Director, Psychological Programs Center for Disaster Medical Sciences UC Irvine (invited)

3:30 - 4:00 Session 4:  Interactive Discussion on How Current Information Sharing Mechanisms and Technologies for Community Health Resilience can be Improved

Facilitator

Chris Allen, Co-chair, Medical and Public Health Information Sharing Environment or Doug Rosendale, Veteran’s Administration

4:00 – 4:15 Day 1 Wrap-Up 

Sally Phillips, R.N., Ph.D. Deputy Director, Office of Health Affairs, U.S. DHS.

Nitin Natarajan, Coordinating Director, Office of Preparedness and Emergency Operations, ASPR, HHS

4:15 p.m.  Adjourn Day 1

Day 2

9:00 – 9:30 Welcome and Recap of Day 1 Outcomes and Decisions

Sally Phillips, R.N., Ph.D. Deputy Director, Office of Health Affairs, U.S. DHS.

Daniel Dodgen, Ph.D., Director-Division of At-Risk Individuals, Behavioral Health and Community Resilience, ASPR, HHS (tentative)

9:30 -10:45 - Session 1: Potential Priority Focus Areas for the Community Health Resilience Information Sharing

Interactive discussion building on the outcomes of Day 1 to identify potential elements of a community health resilience information sharing framework

Facilitator

Paula Scalingi, Ph.D. Executive Director, Bay Area Center for Regional Disaster Resilience and President, The Scalingi Group

10:45 -11:10 – Break

11:10 - 12:00 Session 2: Determining a Path Forward

Daniel Dodgen, Ph.D., Daniel Dodgen, Ph.D., Director-Division of At-Risk Individuals, Behavioral Health and Community Resilience; ASPR, HHS

William Anderson, Director, The Infrastructure Partnership

Jeffrey Stiefel, Ph.D., Senior Health Threats Advisor, Office of Health Affairs, DHS

12:00 p.m. – Adjourn Workshop