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9:00 - 9:30
WELCOMING REMARKS

Moderated by:
Budd Mishkin
, NY1 Correspondent and host of 'One on One with Budd Mishkin'

Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH DeLamar Professor of Public Health; Dean, Mailman School of Public Health; Senior Vice President, Columbia University Medical Center

Irwin Redlener, MD Clinical Professor of Population and Family Health; Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, College of Physicians and Surgeons; Director, National Center for Disaster Preparedness, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH Gelman Professor and Chair, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University


9:30 - 9:45
NOTES FROM THE FRONT LINES OF CATASTROPHE: A PHYSICIAN’S REFLECTIONS ON 9/11/2001

Glenn Asaeda, MD Division Medical Director, EMS FDNY


SESSION 1
WHERE WE ARE TODAY


9:45 - 10:15
STATE OF THE SCIENCE: THE HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF CATASTROPHIC EVENTS

Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH


10:15 - 11:00
KEYNOTE | REDUCING RISK THROUGH EFFECTIVE POLICY AND PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE

Margaret Hamburg, MD Commissioner, U.S. Food and Drug Administration


11:00 - 11:15
BREAK


11:15 - 11:45
STATE OF PREPAREDNESS: POLICIES AND PERCEPTION

Irwin Redlener, MD


11:45 - 12:30
COMMUNICATING AROUND MASS TRAUMA: IMPLICATIONS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND RESPONSE

Jeanne Meserve CNN Homeland Security Correspondent


SESSION 2
LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE



12:30 - 1:15
LUNCH


11:45 - 12:30
KEYNOTE | LOOKING AHEAD: MITIGATING THE HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF FUTURE DISASTERS

Nicole Lurie, MD, MSPH Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services


2:00 – 3:15
PANEL 1: THE SCIENCE OF PREPAREDNESS, RESPONSE AND RECOVERY

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Panel

Neil Boothby, EdD Allan Rosennfeld Professor of Clinical Forced Migration and Health, Director, Program on Forced Migration and Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

David Abramson, PhD Director of Research, National Center for Disaster Preparedness; Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Jeffrey Upperman, MD Director, Trauma Program at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles; Associate Professor of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California

Lori Peek, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Colorado State University; Co-director, Center for Disaster and Risk Analysis

Discussant: Brian Kamoie, MPH, JD Senior Director for Preparedness Policy, White House National Security Staff


3:15 - 3:30
BREAK


3:30 – 4:45
PANEL 2: PREPARING FOR DISASTERS: WHAT DO WE NEED TO DO NOW?

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Nathaniel Hupert, MD, MPH Director of the Preparedness Modeling Unit of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Associate Professor of Public Health and Medicine, Cornell University’s Weill Medical College

Terry Adirim, MD, MPH Director, Office of Special Health Affairs at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration

Andrew Garrett, MD, MPH Deputy Chief Medical Officer, National Disaster Medical System, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

Daniel Fagbuyi, MD Director of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management, Children’s National Medical Center; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine, George Washington University

Discussant: Isaac Weisfuse, MD, MPH Deputy Commissioner, Office of Emergency Preparedness and Response, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene


4:45
CONCLUDING REMARKS

Drs. Galea and Redlener





Key Points to Consider:

- Budgets cuts drastically diminish nation`s capacity to plan for, respond to and recover from major disasters; 17% overall drop from FY '10 – FY'11, alone. More cuts planned for FY '12.

- Public remains unprepared for major disasters; messaging from public officials still not sinking in.

- FEMA's response and recovery resources depleting; similar crisis emerging in state and local jurisdictions.

- Radio interoperability for responder agencies still not established.

- National Recovery Framework held up in federal bureaucracy – now 15 months late.

- Recommendations from federally established "National Commission on Children and Disasters"  not yet implemented.

 

 

CONFERENCE BLOG:

Access our blog, which covered the day's proceedings.


LATEST COMMENTARY FROM NCDP FACULTY:

Conference featured in Time Magazine. "Why Our Public Health System Isn't Ready for Another 9/11."

The Daily Beast: Disaster Funds' Alarming Cuts

Associated Press: "Survey: US public still unprepared for catastrophe"

Dr. Redlener speaks to the Huffington Post about the effect of budget cuts on national preparedness.

NCDP Policy Statement


SURVEY FINDINGS:

The American Preparedness Project

Where the US Public Stands in 2011 on Terrorism, Security, and Disaster Preparedness

Periodic Survey of the American Public by the National Center for Disaster Preparedness, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

Survey administered by the Marist Institute for Public Opinions

Ten years after the tragic events of September 11, 2001, America is, in some aspects, a different country. Significant portions of the federal budget over the past decade have been spent on enhancing preparedness and security on the home front, and prosecuting terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan. As part of its American Preparedness Project, which has tracked US attitudes on domestic preparedness and terrorism over the last ten years, the National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP) at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health recently surveyed the US population to determine their current attitudes and behaviors regarding disaster preparedness and the prospect of domestic terrorism. NCDP and the Children’s Health Fund had conducted this survey annually from 2002 to 2008. As in prior years, the Marist Institute for Public Opinion (MIPO) executed a survey designed by NCDP and CHF. Also as before, the 2011 survey included a mix of previously-asked questions and new questions inspired by recent world events. Trended questions asked about confidence in government; extent of personal and family preparedness; and perceptions of community preparedness.