Appendix A
Workshop Agenda
February 4-5, 2016
Keck Center, Room 100
500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC
Workshop Objectives:
- Provide a broad overview of current efforts under way at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Department of Defense (DoD), and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to distribute medical countermeasures and other supplies during a disaster or other public health emergency including during times of major infrastructure failure;
- Review novel practices used by private industry to distribute medical products and supplies on a day-to-day basis as well as during an emergency;
- Identify major gaps in currently available distribution methods in the public and private sectors;
- Identify opportunities for collaboration and coordination between CDC and among relevant federal as well as industry programs to support effective and efficient medical countermeasures distribution; and
- Examine opportunities to enhance the economic sustainability of the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) in view of evolving mission expectations and new medical countermeasure (MCM) research and development.
DAY 1: FEBRUARY 4, 2016—OPEN SESSION | |
8:30 a.m. |
Welcome and Introductory Remarks Tara O’Toole, Chair, SNS Standing Committee Greg Burel, Director, Division of Strategic National Stockpile, Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR), CDC |
Session I: |
|
Session Objectives:
|
|
8:45 a.m. |
Panel I Moderator: Tara O’Toole, Chair, SNS Standing Committee Panelists:
Q/A |
9:30 a.m. |
Panel II Moderator: Tara O’Toole, Chair, SNS Standing Committee |
Panelists:
Q/A |
|
11:00 a.m. | Break |
11:15 a.m. |
Panel III: The Federal Medical Countermeasures Enterprise Moderator: Tom Inglesby, Director, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Center for Health Security Panelists:
Q/A |
12:30 p.m. | Lunch |
Session II: |
|
Session Objectives:
|
|
1:30 p.m. |
Panel IV: MCM Distribution Lessons from Other Government Partners Moderator: Ellen Carlin, Principal, Carlin Communications Panelists:
Q/A |
2:45 p.m. | Break |
3:00 p.m. |
Panel V: Understanding and Leveraging Practices of the Commercial Supply Chain Moderator: Perry Fri, Executive Vice President, Industry Relations, Healthcare Distribution Management Association Panelists:
Q/A |
4:15 p.m. | Break |
4:30 p.m. |
Review of the Day’s Discussions and Looking Ahead Tara O’Toole, Chair, SNS Standing Committee |
5:00 p.m. | Adjourn |
DAY 2: FEBRUARY 5, 2016—OPEN SESSION | |
8:30 a.m. | Welcome Tara O’Toole, Chair, SNS Standing Committee |
Session III: Studies and Reports Related to the SNS |
|
Session Objective:
|
|
8:40 a.m. |
Panel VI: Reports on SNS Moderator: Eva Lee, Director, Center for Operations Research in Medicine and Healthcare, Georgia Institute of Technology Panelists:
Q/A |
10:25 a.m. | Break |
Session IV: SNS Collaboration with State and Local Partners |
|
Session Objectives:
|
|
10:40 a.m. |
Panel VII: State and Local Perspectives Moderator: Paul Petersen, Director, Emergency Preparedness Program, Tennessee Department of Health Panelists:
Q/A |
12:25 p.m. | Lunch |
Session V: The Road Ahead |
|
Session Objective:
|
|
1:25 p.m. |
Panel VIII: Implications and Opportunities for the Future Moderator: Tara O’Toole, Chair, SNS Standing Committee Panelists:
|
Q/A |
|
3:00 p.m. | Adjourn |
This page intentionally left blank.