Appendix B
Public Workshop Agendas
First Committee Meeting
May 28, 2019
500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Keck Center, Room 103
1:00 p.m. | Welcome to the Open Session Ellen MacKenzie, Committee Chair Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |
1:10 p.m. | Presentations and Discussion on the Scope and Context of Study Charge (20 minutes of opening remarks followed by a 45-minute question-and-answer period) |
Alex Amparo Assistant Administrator, National Preparedness Directorate Federal Emergency Management Agency |
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Anthony Macintyre Senior Medical Advisor, Department of Homeland Security Office of Health Affairs Medical Liaison Officer, Federal Emergency Management Agency |
Justin Pelletier Legislative Director, Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez (NY-07) |
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2:15 p.m. |
Assessing Mortality After Disaster—Hurricane Maria Case Study
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Lynn Goldman Dean, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University |
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Caroline Buckee Associate Professor, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health |
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3:30 p.m. | ADJOURN |
Second Committee Meeting
DAY 1: August 29, 2019
OPEN SESSION
9:00 a.m. | Welcome and Opening Remarks Ellen MacKenzie, Committee Chair, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |
SESSION 1: HURRICANE MARIA IN PUERTO RICO—CASE STUDY
90 minutes (5 minutes for opening remarks followed by moderated discussion and Q&A)
9:15–10:45 a.m. | Moderator: Maureen Lichtveld, Committee Member, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine |
Panelists:
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10:45–11:00 a.m. | BREAK |
SESSION 2: FLORIDA SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING POST-DISASTER MORTALITY AND SIGNIFICANT MORBIDITY—CASE STUDY
90 minutes (5 minutes for opening remarks followed by moderated discussion and Q&A)
11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. | Moderator: Charles Rothwell, Committee Member, National Center for Health Statistics (retired) |
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12:30 p.m. | LUNCH |
SESSION 3: CURRENT CAPABILITIES IN ASSESSING AND USING MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY DATA IN REAL TIME DURING A LARGE-SCALE DISASTER
90 minutes (5 minutes for opening remarks followed by moderated discussion and Q&A)
1:15–2:45 p.m. | Moderator: Sue Anne Bell, Committee Member, University of Michigan School of Nursing |
Panelists:
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2:45–3:00 p.m. | BREAK |
SESSION 4: CURRENT CAPABILITIES IN ASSESSING AND USING MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY DATA DURING THE INTER-DISASTER PERIOD
90 minutes (5 minutes for opening remarks followed by moderated discussion and Q&A)
3:00–4:30 p.m. | Moderator: W. Craig Vanderwagen, Committee Member, East West Protection, LLC |
Panelists:
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4:30 p.m. | ADJOURN Open Session |
DAY 2: August 30, 2019
OPEN SESSION
8:30 a.m. | Welcome and Opening Remarks Ellen MacKenzie, Committee Chair, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |
SESSION 5: LOOKING FORWARD—BEST PRACTICES AND TOOLS FOR ASSESSING AND USING MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY DATA DURING A LARGE-SCALE DISASTER IN REAL TIME
90 minutes (5 minutes for opening remarks followed by moderated discussion and Q&A)
8:45–10:15 a.m. | Moderator: Richard Serino, Committee Member, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health |
Panelists:
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10:15–10:30 a.m. | BREAK |
SESSION 6: LOOKING FORWARD—BEST PRACTICES AND TOOLS FOR ASSESSING AND USING MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY DATA DURING THE INTER-DISASTER PERIOD
90 minutes (5 minutes for opening remarks followed by moderated discussion and Q&A)
10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. | Moderator: Elizabeth Frankenberg, Committee Member, University of North Carolina |
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PUBLIC COMMENT
30-minute session
12:00–12:30 p.m. |
Moderator: Ellen MacKenzie, Committee Chair, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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12:30 p.m. | ADJOURN Open Session |
Third Committee Meeting
DAY 1: October 7, 2019
OPEN SESSION
SESSION 1: COMMITTEE BREAKFAST
9:00–10:00 a.m. | Moderator: Ellen Mackenzie, Committee Chair, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |
Panelist: Sacramento County Coroner Kimberly Gin will join the committee breakfast to discuss her office’s work during the Camp Fire in Paradise. | |
10:00 a.m. | ADJOURN and DEPART for Paradise |
SESSION 2: PARADISE TOWN HALL
1:00–2:30 p.m. | Moderator: Ellen Mackenzie, Committee Chair, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |
Panelists: Various representatives from the fire department, law enforcement, health care providers and administrators, civil leaders, town hall staff, and key community members will come to discuss their experiences during the Camp Fire in Paradise. | |
2:45 p.m. | ADJOURN and DEPART for Butte County |
SESSION 3: BUTTE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT
3:15–4:45 p.m. | Moderator: Ellen Mackenzie, Committee Chair, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |
Panelists: Various representatives from the fire department, law enforcement, health care providers and administrators, civil leaders, town hall staff, and key community members will come to discuss their experiences during the Camp Fire in Paradise. | |
5:00 p.m. | ADJOURN and DEPART for Sacramento |
Webinar: Methodological Considerations for the Estimation of Disaster-Related Morbidity and Mortality at a Population Level
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
2:30–4:30 p.m. ET
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Best Practices for Assessing Mortality and Significant Morbidity Following Large-Scale Disasters is hosting this webinar as part of the committee’s broader effort to learn from the perspectives of researchers who are using a variety of analytical approaches to estimate population size and disaster impact on human health. The committee’s Statement of Task can be found on the last page of this agenda. The committee is specifically interested in learning more about the following:
- Generalizing from your experience with custom analyses of individual disasters, what best practices or standards may exist for estimating disaster-related mortality and morbidity across different disaster types, sizes, and locations?
- Experiences with the challenge of measuring disaster exposure and selecting methodological approaches for addressing issues like in- and out-migration.
- Perspectives on using existing federal surveys (barriers, necessary data items, etc.) in such studies, as well as the essential role of spot, custom survey data collection.
- Potential roles that researchers can play to support state and local stakeholders in analyzing morbidity and mortality data.
- Recommendations on what is needed (resources, tools, partnerships, etc.) to develop more accurate and timely estimates of disaster impact.
2:30 p.m. | Welcome and Panel 1 Introduction Elizabeth Frankenberg, Carolina Population Center, Committee Member |
2:40 p.m. | Panel 1: Survey-Based Methods for Assessing Mortality and Morbidity Rafael Irizarry, Harvard University Jessica Ho, University of Southern California |
3:00 p.m. | Discussion with Committee |
3:30 p.m. | Panel 2 Introduction H. Russell Bernard, Arizona State University, Committee Member |
3:40 p.m. | Panel 2: Methods for Estimating Hard-to-Count Populations Adrian Raftery, University of Washington Tyler McCormick, University of Washington |
4:00 p.m. | Discussion with Committee |
4:30 p.m. | Adjourn Webinar |
Webinar: Methodological Considerations for Estimating Excess Mortality and Morbidity
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
2:30–4:00 p.m. ET
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Best Practices for Assessing Mortality and Significant Morbidity Following Large-Scale Disasters is hosting this webinar as part of the committee’s broader effort to learn from the perspectives of researchers who are using excess mortality to assess disaster impact. The committee’s Statement of Task can be found on the last page of this agenda. Rather than the findings from the research, the committee is specifically interested in learning more about the methodological challenges researchers face in conducting such research and how these challenges can be addressed, including:
- Critical assumptions that must be made and what is needed to make better informed assumptions.
- The identification of accurate baseline data and coping with a lack of baseline data.
- The selection of exposed and comparison populations across different disaster contexts, determinations of which outcomes to measure (including causes of death and morbidity), when to measure them, and for how long.
- Selection of statistical methods when using large databases that lead to more precise estimates.
- Addressing privacy and confidentiality concerns and other barriers to data sharing and use.
- Potential roles that researchers can play to support state and local stakeholders and federal policy makers in analyzing morbidity and mortality data.
- Recommendations on what is needed (resources, tools, partnerships, etc.) to develop more accurate and timely estimates of disaster impact.
2:30 p.m. | Welcome and Panel Introduction Michael Stoto, Georgetown University, Committee Member Sue Anne Bell, University of Michigan, Committee Member |
2:40 p.m. | Panel Presentations Scott Zeger, Johns Hopkins University Troy Quast, University of South Florida |
3:00 p.m. | Discussion with Committee |
4:30 p.m. | Adjourn Webinar |