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Major Unit: Institute of Medicine
Subunit: Board on Global Health
Project Unit: Forum on Microbial Threats
Meeting Name: "Ethical and Legal Considerations in Mitigating Pandemic Disease" Workshop
Meeting Start: 9/19/2006Meeting End:9/20/2006
Comment: While infectious diseases remain the leading causes of morbidity and mortality on our planet, the general public does not appear to share this perception, especially in the shadow of equally scary but less likely risks such as a bioterrorist attack with aerosolized smallpox. Moreover, most people today are overly optimistic with regard to the means at our disposal to fend off global epidemics comparable to the "Black Death" of the 14th century or—on a lesser scale—the "Spanish Flu" of 1918/19 that killed or sickened an estimated 50 to 100 million people worldwide in a matter of 12 to 18 months. Particular attention has recently been paid to pandemic influenza due to the potential threat posed by H5N1 avian influenza as it continues its global spread from East to West. Although governments at all levels are beginning to formulate pandemic response plans, very little attention has been paid to examining the critical ethical and legal issues involved in implementing these plans.

The Institute of Medicine's Forum on Microbial Threats will host a public workshop on “Ethical and Legal Considerations in Mitigating Pandemic Disease" on September 19-20, 2006 at the Pan American Health Organization Headquarters (PAHO), Conference Room A, located at 525 23rd Street, NW in Washington, DC.

To register for this workshop, please visit our website: http://www.iom.edu/CMS/3783/3924/35857.aspx
Offsite Location:
Building: Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) HeadquartersConference Room A
Street: 525 23rd Street, NW
City: WashingtonState:D.C.Country:United States

 

 
For more information, Please contact:
Contact: Kate Skoczdopole
Contact Affiliation: Forum on Microbial Threats
Email: kskoczdopole@nas.edu
Phone: 202-334-2462Fax:202-334-3861

 

 
Preliminary meeting agenda:
Ethical and Legal Considerations in Mitigating Pandemic Disease
September 19th and 20th 2006

THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES
PAHO HEADQUARTERS
CONFERENCE ROOM A
525 23rd Street, NW
WASHINGTON, D.C.

AGENDA

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2006
8:30: Continental Breakfast

9:00: Welcome and Opening Remarks - Stanley M. Lemon, M.D., Chair, Forum on Microbial Threats and Mirta Rosas, Director, Pan American Health Organization

9:15 – 10:00: KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Dr. David Heymann (WHO) “Past as Prologue?”

10:00 – 10:15: Discussion

Session I: Understanding the Challenges of the Future by Examining the Past: Influenza/Smallpox/SARS

Moderator: Stanley M. Lemon, M.D. Chair, Forum on Microbial Threats
10:15 – 11:00: Contemplating Pandemics: The Role of Historical Inquiry in Developing Pandemic Mitigation Strategies for the 21st Century - Howard Markel, M.D., University of Michigan

11:00- 11:45: The Smallpox Eradication Campaign - D.A. Henderson, M.D. Center for Biosecurity, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

11:45 – 12:30: Lessons from SARS – Mike Ryan, M.D., World Health Organization (invited)
12:30 – 1:00: Session I Q&A

1:00 – 1:45: LUNCH

Session II: Domestic and International Preparedness Planning

Moderator: P. Frederick Sparling, M.D., Vice Chair, Forum on Microbial Threats

1:45 – 2:30: US Government Preparedness Plan - Bruce Gellin, M.D., Office of the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services

2:30 – 3:15: Regional Planning Efforts – Pan American Health Organization (TBD)

3:15 – 3:45: Q & A

3:45 – 4:00: BREAK

4:00 – 4:45: Ethical Considerations in International Preparedness Planning Efforts – Alexander Capron, M.D., World Health Organization

4:45 – 5:15: Open Discussion of Session II

5:15– 6:00: Open Discussion of Day 1

6:00 p.m.: ADJOURN


WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20TH, 2006
8:00: Continental Breakfast
8:30: Opening Remarks / Summary of Day 1
Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D., Vice Chair, Forum on Emerging Infections

Session III: Disease Mitigation Strategies – Modeling, Quarantine, Containment

Moderator: Gary Roselle, M.D., Program Director for Infectious Diseases, Department of Veterans Affairs Central Office

8:45 – 9:30: Martin Cetron, M.D., Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

9:30 – 10:15: Lawrence Gostin, J.D., Georgetown University School of Law

10:15 – 10:30: Discussion

10:30 – 11:15: The role of Modeling in Disease Mitigation and Containment, Joshua Epstein, Ph.D., The Brookings Institution

11:15 – 11:45: Discussion Panel:
Timothy C. Germann, Ph.D., Los Alamos National Laboratory
Jim LeDuc, M.D., Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Victoria Sutton, J.D., Ph.D., Texas Tech

11:45 - 12:30: LUNCH

12:30 – 1:30: Harvey Fineberg, MD, PhD, President, Institute of Medicine - Luncheon remarks

Session IV: Priority-Setting for Access to Limited Availability Health Care Resources
Moderator: Ruth Berkelman, M.D., Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health

1:30 – 2:15: Ruth Faden, Ph.D., Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University

2:15 – 3:00: Bernard Lo, M.D., University of California San Francisco

3:00 – 3:45: Discussion Panel:
Steven Bice, Battelle, Atlanta, Georgia
DA Henderson, M.D., Johns Hopkins University
Shelley Hearne, DrPH, Johns Hopkins University
Lawrence Gostin, J.D., Georgetown University School of Law

3:45 – 4:30: Open Discussion
4:30 – 4:45: Closing Remarks/Adjourn


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