BIOL 437 Week 13 (Pandemic Preparedness) Flashcards
PHAC
-had prepared plans and national guidance to support a response to a pandemic but had not completed a planned testing exercise or updated all of the plans and guidance
long-standing shortcomings
-in health survelliance information impeded the effective exchange of health data between the agency and provinces/territories
Global Public Health Intelligence Network alerts
-and agency risk assessments are key to early warning
Canada Border Service Agency
-acted quickly to enforce emergency orders prohibiting the entry of foreign nationals to Canada
PHAC recommendations
- finalize improvements to is info technology infrastructure to facilitate the collection of timely, accurate and complete survelliance info
- promote credible and timely risk assessments
- improve systems and processes for administering nationwide mandatory quarantine
CDC personal preparedness
-prepared to protect your own family’s health from impacts of a disaster or an emergency on public health and healthcare systems
individuals, families and communities
- prepare your health
- personal and public health threats
- pandemics
- natural diastes
- bioterrism emergencies
- chemical emergencies
- radiation emergencies
US National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
-prepare for future public health emergencies caused by infectious diseases
-developed a pandemic prepardness plan
>focuses on viruses that could cause epidemics or pandemics
goals for NIAID
- characterize pathogens of concern and increase research and surveillance to identify threats before they emerge
- shorten timelines between pathogen emergence
- bridge and eliminate existing gaps in research, infrastructure and technology and expand pre-clinical and clinical testing capacity
World Health Assembly
-agrees to launch process to develop historic global accord on pandemic prevention, prepardness and response
