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Meeting 2: Commitee on Implementation of Antiviral Medication Strategies for an Influenza Pandemic

Meeting Two of the committee took place on Januray 7, 2008 at the Keck Center of the National Academies, 500 5th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001, room 110.

Available speaker PowerPoint presentations can be found at the bottom of this webpage.

AGENDA

January 7, 2008


10:00 am                             
Influenza antivirals and their use: effectiveness, resistance, surveillance
Alexander Klimov
Chief, Virus Surveillance and Diagnosis Branch 
Influenza Division
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

10:20 am 
Mathematical modeling of resistance in a pandemic
Marc Lipsitch
Professor of Epidmiology
Department of Epidemiology
Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Harvard School of Public Health

10:40 am                             
Committee questions and discussion

11:00 am                             
Antiviral distribution planning: more from state public health agencies
Paul Jarris
Executive Director
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials

11:15 am                             
Committee questions and discussion

11:30 am                              
Lessons from past public health drug or vaccine distribution campaigns: swine flu immunization program, antibiotic distributuion after anthrax attacks, vaccine shortage

  • Swine flu
        Walter Dowdle
        Senior Consultant to WHO
        Polio Eradication Program
        Task Force on Child Survival and Development


11:45 am                              
Lunch



12:45 pm                               
Lessons from past public health drug or vaccine distribution campaigns, continued

  • Influenza vaccine shortage
        Claire Hannan
        Executive Director
        Association of Immunization Managers
  • Anthrax
        Eddy Bresnitz
        Deputy Health Commissioner
        State Epidemiologist
        New Jersey

        Mary Mahoney
        Bioterrorism Coordinator
        North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System
        New York


1:30 pm                               
Committee questions and discussion

1:50 pm                               
Decision analysis for antiviral distribution
Sinan Khan
Epidemiology Analyst
Los Angeles County
Emergency Preparedness and Response Program

Telephone and web-based decision support and triage
Barry Wolcott
Associate Professor
Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences

2:30 pm                             
Questions from the committee and discussion

2:45 pm                             
Break

3:00 pm                             
Antiviral distribution planning

  • The public-private sector interface
        Rex Archer
        Director
        Kansas City Health Department
        Missouri     

        Lisa Koonin
        Senior Advisor 
        Influenza Coordination Unit 
        Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases 
        Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
     

4:00 pm                           

  • Perspectives from the private sector
        Katherine B. Andrus
        Assistant General Counsel
        Air Transport Association of America, Inc.

        Stephen Jones
        Cluster Occupational Health Manager
        Downstream and Chemicals
        ExxonMobil Corporation

        Michael McGuire
        Vice President
        Roche Laboratories Inc.


Committee questions and discussion


4:15 pm                         
Ethical principles in planning for the distribution of antiviral medication
Nancy Kass
Phoebe R. Berman Professor of Bioethics
and Public Health
Johns Hopkins University

Ethical framework in Minnesota’s plans for distribution of antiviral medication
Dorothy Vawter
Associate Director
Center for Health Care Ethics
Minnesota

4:45 pm                        
Committee questions and discussion

5:00                               
Antiviral distribution planning, continued 

  •  In a publicly-funded health care system
         Victoria Davey
         Deputy Chief Public Health and
         Environmental Hazards Officer
         Veterans Health Administration
         Department of Veterans Affairs
     
  • Private health care system
        Skip Skivington
        Vice President of Operations, Procurement and Supply
        Program Offices
        Kaiser Permanente

                 Eric Koscove
                 Chief
                 Emergancy Department
                 Kaiser Permanente Medical Center

5:35 pm                        
Committee Questions and Discussion

5:50 pm                        
Public Comment (if time allows)

6:00 pm                        
Adjourn


 

 

 

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