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Suggested Citation:"Appendix E: Public Committee Meeting Agendas and Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25650.
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E

Public Committee Meeting Agendas and Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief

The committee held 10 in-person meetings from January 2018 through March 2020; portions of 4 of these meetings were open to the public as part of the committee’s information gathering for this study:

  • The committee’s first in-person meeting, held in January 2018, included an open session at which the sponsors of the study provided their perspectives on the charge to the committee, and state and local public health emergency preparedness and response (PHEPR) practitioners provided additional background information and context for the study.
  • The committee’s second in-person meeting, held in April 2018, included a public session at which the committee heard from researchers who have conducted similar reviews and grading of PHEPR practices to understand the nature of the evidence base, as well as the methods used and challenges experienced, and to hear from experts whose input helped inform the committee’s prioritization of PHEPR Capabilities for this review.
  • The committee’s July 2018 in-person meeting included a public session at which researchers and practitioners discussed existing evidence-grading frameworks used to evaluate the effectiveness of practices in health and nonhealth fields, the potential application of those frameworks for assessing the effectiveness of PHEPR practices, and the potential role of evidence gleaned from sources other than controlled trials and quasi-experimental studies in an evidence review methodology for PHEPR practices. A summary of this discussion is captured in a Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief.1
  • The committee’s January 2019 in-person meeting included a public session at which the committee engaged with PHEPR practitioners to identify knowledge gaps that matter to them, and to assess the relative priority, from their perspective, of potential

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1 Available at https://www.nap.edu/catalog/25510 (accessed June 18, 2020).

Suggested Citation:"Appendix E: Public Committee Meeting Agendas and Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25650.
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  • evidence review topics encompassed within the 15 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) PHEPR Capabilities (see Appendix A for the results of this activity).

PUBLIC COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDAS

Monday, January 29, 2018

Keck Center of the National Academies

Room 208

500 Fifth Street, NW

Washington, DC 20001

OPEN SESSION

SESSION III: Sponsor Briefing: Discussion of the Committee’s Charge
Objective: To hear from the sponsors of the study regarding their perspectives on the charge to the committee.
1:30 p.m. Welcome and Introductions

NED CALONGE, Committee Chair

President and Chief Executive Officer

The Colorado Trust

1:45 p.m. Sponsor Perspective on Charge to the Committee

ERIC CARBONE, Study Sponsor

Director, Office of Applied Research

Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

2:15 p.m. Discussion with Committee
3:15 p.m. Break
SESSION IV: Additional Context for the Study—Defining the Problem
Objective: To obtain additional background information and context for the study.
3:30 p.m. Local Perspective

SETH FOLDY

Director, Epidemiology, Informatics, and Preparedness

Denver Public Health

MAC MCCLENDON

Director, Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response

Harris County Public Health

State Perspective

PAUL PETERSEN

Director, Emergency Preparedness Program

Tennessee Department of Health

Suggested Citation:"Appendix E: Public Committee Meeting Agendas and Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25650.
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MARISSA LEVINE

State Health Commissioner

Virginia Department of Health

4:00 p.m. Discussion with Committee
5:15 p.m. ADJOURN OPEN SESSION

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

National Academy of Sciences Building

Lecture Room

2101 Constitution Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20418

OPEN SESSION

1:00 p.m. Welcome and Introductions

NED CALONGE, Committee Chair

President and Chief Executive Officer

The Colorado Trust

SESSION III: Researcher Session
Objectives:
  1. To hear from researchers who have conducted similar reviews and grading of preparedness and response practices in the past to understand the nature of the evidence base as well as the methods used and the challenges experienced.
  2. To hear from experts who can inform the prioritization of the public health preparedness capabilities.
1:05 p.m.

MICHAEL STOTO

Professor of Health Systems Administration and Population Health Georgetown University

1:50 p.m.

YASMIN KHAN

Consultant Physician

Public Health Ontario

2:35 p.m.

VALERIE YEAGER

Associate Professor for Health Policy and Management

Indiana University Fairbanks School of Public Health

3:20 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m.

MARCIA TESTA

Senior Lecturer on Biostatistics

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Suggested Citation:"Appendix E: Public Committee Meeting Agendas and Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25650.
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4:15 p.m.

GLEN MAYS

Scutchfield Endowed Professor of Health Services and Systems Research

University of Kentucky College of Public Health

5:00 p.m.

JENNIFER HORNEY

Department Head and Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Texas A&M University Health Science Center School of Public Health

5:45 p.m. Full Discussion with Committee
6:00 p.m. ADJOURN OPEN SESSION

Thursday, July 26, 2018

National Academy of Sciences Building

Lecture Room

2101 Constitution Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20418

OPEN SESSION

9:00 a.m. Welcome and Introductions

NED CALONGE, Committee Chair

President and Chief Executive Officer

The Colorado Trust

SESSION I: Methodologies for Evaluating and Grading Evidence
Objectives:
  1. To examine similarities and differences between existing frameworks used to grade evidence of effectiveness for practices in health and nonhealth fields.
  2. To discuss the potential application and adaptation of existing evidence-grading frameworks for assessing the effectiveness of public health preparedness and response practices.
  3. To explore the potential role of evidence generated from sources other than randomized controlled trials and quasi-experimental studies in an evidence review methodology for public health preparedness and response practices.
9:05 a.m. Panel 1: Evidence-Grading Frameworks in Health and Nonhealth Fields
GUIDE TO COMMUNITY PREVENTIVE SERVICES

RANDY ELDER

Health Scientist, Guidelines and Recommendations Activity

Office of Science Quality, Office of the Associate Director for Science

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Suggested Citation:"Appendix E: Public Committee Meeting Agendas and Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25650.
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GRADE AND GRADE-CERQUAL

HOLGER SCHüNEMANN (via Teleconference)

GRADE Co-Chair

Co-Director, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Evidence Informed Policy

Professor and Chair of the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Professor of Medicine

McMaster University

JANE NOYES

Professor in Health and Social Services Research and Child Health

Bangor University

WHAT WORKS CLEARINGHOUSE

JEFFREY VALENTINE

Professor and Program Coordinator, Educational Psychology, Measurement, and Evaluation

College of Education and Human Development

University of Louisville

CLEARINGHOUSE FOR LABOR EVALUATION AND RESEARCH

DEMETRA NIGHTINGALE

Institute Fellow

Urban Institute

COUNTERMEASURES THAT WORK

KRISTIE JOHNSON

Research Psychologist, Office of Behavioral Safety Research

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

11:05 a.m. Break
11:15 a.m. Full Panel Discussion with Committee
12:15 p.m. Working Lunch
1:00 p.m. Panel 2: Additional Evidence Evaluation Methods for Assessing the Effectiveness of Interventions and Practices

JEFF MARCUS

Aviation Safety Recommendation Specialist, Safety Recommendations Division

National Transportation Safety Board

JENNIFER BISHOP

Chief, Writing and Editing Division, Office of Aviation Safety

National Transportation Safety Board

Suggested Citation:"Appendix E: Public Committee Meeting Agendas and Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25650.
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J. D. POLK

Chief Health and Medical Officer

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

MICHAEL WOOLCOCK

Lead Social Scientist, Development Research Group

The World Bank

1:45 p.m. Full Panel Discussion with Committee
2:30 p.m. Break (Committee Convenes in Closed Session)
3:00 p.m. Discussion with Panels 1 and 2
4:00 p.m. ADJOURN OPEN SESSION

Thursday, January 10, 2019

Beckman Center of the National Academies

Huntington Room

100 Academy Way

Irvine, CA 92617

OPEN SESSION

SESSION V: Practitioner Input on Review Topic Priorities
Objective:
  1. To identify priority topics for future evidence reviews based on practitioner input on critical knowledge gaps for PHEPR practices.
1:00 p.m. Welcome and Introductions

NED CALONGE,

Committee Chair President and Chief Executive Officer

The Colorado Trust

1:15 p.m. In-Person PHEPR Practitioner Prioritization Activity
  • Review the intended use for the results from this activity
  • Review activities and results from January 7 web-based meeting
  • Review and rate priority level for each practice
6:00 p.m. ADJOURN OPEN SESSION
Suggested Citation:"Appendix E: Public Committee Meeting Agendas and Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25650.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix E: Public Committee Meeting Agendas and Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25650.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix E: Public Committee Meeting Agendas and Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25650.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix E: Public Committee Meeting Agendas and Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25650.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix E: Public Committee Meeting Agendas and Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25650.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix E: Public Committee Meeting Agendas and Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25650.
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When communities face complex public health emergencies, state local, tribal, and territorial public health agencies must make difficult decisions regarding how to effectively respond. The public health emergency preparedness and response (PHEPR) system, with its multifaceted mission to prevent, protect against, quickly respond to, and recover from public health emergencies, is inherently complex and encompasses policies, organizations, and programs. Since the events of September 11, 2001, the United States has invested billions of dollars and immeasurable amounts of human capital to develop and enhance public health emergency preparedness and infrastructure to respond to a wide range of public health threats, including infectious diseases, natural disasters, and chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear events. Despite the investments in research and the growing body of empirical literature on a range of preparedness and response capabilities and functions, there has been no national-level, comprehensive review and grading of evidence for public health emergency preparedness and response practices comparable to those utilized in medicine and other public health fields.

Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response reviews the state of the evidence on PHEPR practices and the improvements necessary to move the field forward and to strengthen the PHEPR system. This publication evaluates PHEPR evidence to understand the balance of benefits and harms of PHEPR practices, with a focus on four main areas of PHEPR: engagement with and training of community-based partners to improve the outcomes of at-risk populations after public health emergencies; activation of a public health emergency operations center; communication of public health alerts and guidance to technical audiences during a public health emergency; and implementation of quarantine to reduce the spread of contagious illness.

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