12/11/2018 12:00 AM EST
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Center for Preparedness and Response (CDC CPR). Published: 11/2018. This 30-page report summarizes calendar year 2017 data for the Federal Select Agent Program (FSAP) and marks the program’s third annual effort toward communicating operational metrics to further public understanding of FSAP. It provides key statistics, and includes chapters on Top Agents Registered with Each Agency, Security Risk Assessments, Transfers of Select Agents and Toxins, and Theft, Loss, and Release of Select Agents and Toxins. (PDF)
12/11/2018 12:00 AM EST
Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Published: 12/2018. This 94-page document from the National Infrastructure Advisory Council examines the nation's ability to respond to and recover from a catastrophic power outage of a magnitude beyond modern experience, exceeding prior events in severity, scale, duration, and consequence. It found that significant public and private action is needed to prepare for and recover from a catastrophic outage that could leave large parts of the nation without power for weeks or months, and cause service failures in other sectors, including water and wastewater, communications, transportation, healthcare, and financial services. (PDF)
12/10/2018 12:00 AM EST
Source: European Union, European Commission. Published: 3/2018. This 156-page document, published with the United Nations, provides a set of specific recommendations that countries and international organizations can use to improve the collection, collation, disaggregation, reporting, and overall quality of statistics on forcibly displaced populations. It discusses how people can be displaced by natural disasters, and Chapter 5, on measuring integration and the satisfaction of the immediate and ongoing needs of refugee and refugee related populations, includes a discussion of health indicators. (PDF)
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