Pandemic Library
Avian Influenza Pandemic Resource Guide
Resource guide compiled to aid organizations prepare for an avian influenza pandemic.
CDC Issues Guidelines For
Battling Flu Pandemic (Article)
Washington Post Article dated February 2, 2007 discusses school closings would be likely, but restricting travel is not suggested
Department of Homeland Security: Lessons Learned Information Sharing
Infectious disease outbreaks: Creating hospital staffing surge plans. Using the 2003 SARS outbreak as a model, provides information for hospitals on the potential affect of quarantines on staff in the event of an influenza pandemic
Flu Pandemic Impact Can Be Mitigated in Cities: Study (Article)
Washington Post article discusses a study that showed that using isolation, quarantine, and antiviral could reduce the spreadof a pandemic infection by half.
Flu Pandemic Prep (Article)
Is your school prepared? With the possibility of a deadly flu pandemic-today's worry being avian flu-good planning may be the best medicine.
Article by Ron Schachter; February 2007.
Flu Presentation (ppt)
UCD Employee Health Services presentation of the 2005 statistics for general flu vaccination season and goals for the 2006 vaccination season.
Flu Review (ppt)
PowerPoint presentation by Sadina Reynaldo, Ph.D, Acute Communicable Disease Control, Los Angeles County Dept of Health Services, Public Health; Outlines the history and signs of influenza pandemics, compares influenza strains.
Flu Vaccine Priorities Test Pandemic Planning (Article)
Washington Post article discusses the current national vaccination plan whereby the elderly population has priority and alternate prioritizing.
Guidelines for Pandemic Planning - American College Health Association
Importance of pandemic preparedness planning, and how to get started. Outline of specific areas that should be included in planning; health care needs of students and addressing planning for the broader campus-wide response
Global Rescue Intelligence Report
Avian Influenza Summary, April 2006; provides background information and outlines prevention, preparation, diagnosis, and treatment services. Global Rescue LLC is a membership organization dedicated to providing the finest medical, aeromedical evacuation and transportation, security, and assistive services to its members.
Global Pandemic Symposium - Public Entity Risk Institute (PERI)
Program which focused on the actions and steps a community should take now to plan for the local effects of a global influenza pandemic.
Guidance on Preparing Workplaces for an Influenza Pandemic-OSHA Publication
Interim
Pre-Pandemic Planning Guidance: Community Strategy for Pandemic Influenza
Mitigation in the United States -
Early, Targeted, Layered Use of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions - Dept. of Health
and Human Services
Focuses on several measures other than vaccination and drug treatment that might be useful during an influenza pandemic to reduce its harm. Introduces a Pandemic Severity Index and provides planning recommendations.
Los Angeles Public Health
Website contains general information on influenza, pandemics influenza, and avian influenza. Also provides pandemic preparedness brochures for individuals, businesses, and other organizations
National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza
Report presents the national approach to address the threat of pandemic influenza which outlines intended preparation, detection, and response to a pandemic. It also outlines the important roles to be played by the Federal, State, and local governments, private industry, international partners, and individual citizens.
Outbreak Policy - September, 2006 (pdf)
UCSF Medical Center Outbreak (Epidemic/Pandemic) Response Policy. A plan and tools for preventing the introduction of a communicable disease threat into the organization, for recognizing that a communicable disease has been introduced, and/or containing the spread of the communicable disease threat if it is introduced.
Pandemic - Draft Report Outlines Plans (Article)
NY Times article discusses a summary of the federal draft response plan to combat an influenza pandemic on the national level.
Pandemic Influenza and Other Highly Infectious Respiratory-Transmitted Diseases Response Plan - UCI Medical Center
This document provides a plan for UCI Medical Center (UCIMC) to respond to an influenza pandemic. The plan is also intended to serve as the template for responding to large-scale outbreaks of other highly infectious respiratory transmitted diseases (RTD) such as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).
Pandemic Influenza Tabletop Exercise Package
Provided by the Department of Health and Human Services, the purpose of which is to provide states and local areas with tools to assist in planning and conducting tabletop exercises on the topic of pandemic influenza. Exercises serve to identify where plans may need to be refined or modified, leading to strengthening preparedness and should be viewed as an integral part of planning activities.
Pandemic Influenza Vaccine Prioritization Project - California Dept of Health Services
Webcast presentations and information used in the project for California Department of Health Services to prepare a plan to allocate limited vaccine resources in the event of an influenza outbreak.
Pandemic Preparedness - International SOS
Provider of medical assistance, international healthcare, security services and outsourced customer care. Provides general information to the public and offers option to subscribe to Pandemic Information Service to receive greater detailed information. Also provides pandemic preparedness services.
Preparing for Pandemic Flu - American Hospital Association
Testimony before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging May 2006. Testimony presents views of AHA regarding the preparation of hospitals for a pandemic influenza, the capacity demands of a pandemic influenza, examines what is needed to make hospitals ready for a pandemic and how the lack of federal funding is hindering preparedness.
U.S. Department of Labor's OSHA Unveils New Guidance on Preparing Workplaces for Influenza Pandemic (OSHA News Release 2/6/07)
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