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Webinar: Growing and Sustaining: A Discussion About Healthcare Coalition Financial Models
Healthcare Coalitions (HCCs) across the country have been tasked with supporting disaster operations in their communities during and after emergency events. For many HCCs, the transition from serving as a planning entity to an operational entity is challenging. In an effort to provide further assistance to HCCs, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR’s) Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange (TRACIE) is hosting a webinar series focused on operationalizing coalitions. The fourth webinar in this series is scheduled…
Find out more »21st Century Cures Act Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement Kick-Off Meeting
Over the coming months, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) will host a series of meetings and webinars to inform our work in support of the 21st Century Cures Act trusted exchange framework and common agreement provisions outlined in Section 4003 of the law. ONC looks forward to working with stakeholders on implementation of this Cures provision—an integral component of the nationwide network-to-network exchange of health data and a critical part of ONC’s charge to…
Find out more »Webinar: Advancing Interoperability for Social Determinants of Health
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is hosting a half-day webinar highlighting the current state of using health IT to address the social determinants of health (SDOH). The webinar will look at existing screening tools and how providers are use these tools in a variety care and payment models. The webinar will also highlight current efforts to enable electronic capture of SDOH data elements, and demonstrate available resources to create…
Find out more »Webinar: “A Local Perspective on Disasters and Recovery”
The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR’s) Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange (TRACIE) is hosting the latest webinar as a part of its Disaster Recovery Speaker Series on July 27 at 11:00 am ET. Attendees will hear from Linda Langston, who previously served as the Director of Strategic Relations for the National Association of Counties in Washington, D.C. The presentation will offer tips for effectively working with local officials, understanding a local perspective, and what can be…
Find out more »Webinar: Maintaining Food Security – Disasters and Household Misfortunes
The Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) is hosting a webinar titled "Maintaining Food Security: Disasters and Household Misfortunes" on July 27, 2017 from 2:00-3:00 pm ET. The webinar aims to inform advocates, organizations, and state agencies about ways that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) can assist disaster victims and their communities. Participants will hear from experts about best practices for planning and implementing a Disaster SNAP (D-SNAP) to assist people not already enrolled in regular SNAP as well as…
Find out more »FBI/CDC Workshop: Radiological Awareness and Response
Each year, the FBI Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Directorate, Nuclear and Radiological Countermeasures Unit, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Environmental Health, host FBI-CDC Radiological Awareness and Response Workshops (RARW) throughout the U.S. This free workshop is a critical capability and capacity building program developed to test a multi-agency response to a Radiological Exposure Device (RED) or a Radiological Dispersal Device (RDD). The two-day workshop provides an opportunity for public health officials, first…
Find out more »CDC Second Wednesday Webinar: 60-Day Anthrax Medical Countermeasures
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will host their next Second Wednesday Webinar at 1:00-2:00 PM/ET on Wednesday, August 9, 2017. the August session will feature panelists from CDC’s Division of State and Local Readiness and Division of Strategic National Stockpile who will discuss the recently released resource titled, “Receiving 60-day Anthrax Medical Countermeasures from CDC's Strategic National Stockpile: Planning Considerations for State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Partners,” now available on On-TRAC. Please note, in order to access On-TRAC, individuals must first…
Find out more »Webinar: Strengthening the Disaster Resilience of the Academic Biomedical Research Community
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine is hosting a webinar on August 10th highlighting findings and recommendations from their upcoming report on strengthening disaster resilience of the academic biomedical research community. Date/Time Thursday, August 10, 2017 2:00 pm Eastern Register Here Overview The United States has experienced and continues to face the threat of disasters, and, like all entities, the academic biomedical research community can be affected. Recent disasters, from hurricanes to cyber-attacks, and their consequences have shown that…
Find out more »Webinar: Health and Public Health Cyberdependencies
The Department of Homeland Security's Office of Cyber and Infrastructure Analysis (OCIA), with the support of the Office of Cybersecurity and Communications, invites you to participate in a webinar discussion about its recent analysis of healthcare and public health cyberdependencies. In addition, the Department of Health and Human Services will provide an overview of prioritization plans related to the recent findings from the Cyber Task Force’s report to Congress and an operational review of the new Healthcare Cybersecurity and Communications…
Find out more »Legal Epidemiology, Part 3: A Tool for Addressing Health in All Policies
CDC's Public Health Law Program (PHLP) and National Environmental Health Association are hosting a the third webinar in a series on legal epidemiology. This webinar will offer a primer on the Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach as a strategy for addressing complex factors that influence health and equity. Speakers will describe how a HiAP approach can help to ensure that policy decisions have a neutral or beneficial impact on health and equity outcomes. Speakers will also demonstrate how legal epidemiology…
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