Community resilience roundtable on the implementation of Homeland Security Presidential Directive 21 (HSPD-21).

نویسندگان

  • Monica Schoch-Spana
  • Brooke Courtney
  • Crystal Franco
  • Ann Norwood
  • Jennifer B Nuzzo
چکیده

269 ON APRIL 23, 2008, THE CENTER for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) convened an invitational meeting to discuss community resilience for catastrophic health events and to help inform implementation planning for Homeland Security Presidential Directive 21 (HSPD-21). Released in October of 2007, HSPD-21 identified community resilience as one of the “four most critical components of public health and medical preparedness” alongside biosurveillance, countermeasure distribution, and mass casualty care, and the directive also asserted “the important roles of individuals, families, and communities” in managing public health emergencies.1 Meeting attendees (listed in the sidebar) included officials who authored HSPD-21 and those charged with its execution, grassroots leaders who have prioritized disaster management in their hometowns and among vulnerable populations, public health and emergency management practitioners, scholars of disasters and resilience, and staff to members of Congress with jurisdiction over homeland security and public health matters. Individual comments made during the event were not for attribution. The day’s agenda was organized into 3 structured discussions: roundtable participants considered which definition(s) of community resilience best advanced the policy agenda, they reviewed prior public participation programs for disasters for relevant lessons, and they made recommendations for federal program and budget priorities in keeping with the value placed on resilience by the presidential directive. The organization of this report reflects the 3-part agenda. Opening each conversation was a presentation from the Center for Biosecurity and invited speakers, accompanied by the results of a brief survey circulated in advance of the meeting to spur discussion. Among the issues polled were attendees’ own concepts of community resilience, concrete techniques for building resilience, and the role of the federal government in helping state and local authorities promote resilient communities. A majority of participants (n 20) completed the survey. The following report is an overview of prepared remarks, pre-event survey findings, and the major themes that arose in the roundtable discussions. We first provide some brief background knowledge on HSPD-21.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Biosecurity and bioterrorism : biodefense strategy, practice, and science

دوره 6 3  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2008