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Charting the Future of Biosecurity
Videos from a special symposium, "Charting the Future of Biosecurity: Ten Years after the Anthrax Attacks," held October 4, 2011, in Washington, DC. This symposium focused on the future of U.S. biosecurity policy.
Rad Resilient City: A Preparedness Checklist
The Rad Resilient City fallout preparedness checklist, published by the Center for Biosecurity of UPMC, provides cities and their neighbors with a checklist of preparedness actions that could save tens of thousands of lives or more following a nuclear terrorist attack.
The Checklist converts the latest federal guidance and technical reports into 7 clear, actionable steps that all communities can take now to protect residents from radioactive fallout. The workbook includes a wealth of background information, a phased implementation plan, guidance for using buildings as shelters, a community preparedness education plan, and guidelines for developing and samples of post-event messages to guide and save lives.
The Rad Resilient City Checklist was developed by the Center for Biosecurity of UPMC in collaboration with the Nuclear Resilience Expert Advisory Group.
Improving Global Health, 11/22/2010
This conference focused on improving global health security, and examined topics such as the BWC, global health capacity and U.S. national security, disease surveillance networks, the International Health Regulations, and destruction of the smallpox virus.
Advancing U.S. Resilience to a Nuclear Catastrophe
This one day conference, held May 19, 2011, in Washington, DC., focused on policies and new proposals to strengthen the capacity of major U.S. cities, and the nation as a whole, to withstand a nuclear catastrophe.
Resilient American Communities, 12/10/2009
A one day conference, Resilient American Communities: Progress in Practice and Policy, held December 10, 2009, in Washington, DC,. The purpose of this invitational conference was to apply state-of-the-art knowledge of resilience to the design of federal policies that will strengthen local communities and their environments to withstand disasters, epidemics, and terrorism.
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