10/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Georgetown University. Published: 10/2019. This one-hour, 25-minute discussion brings together experts to consider an additional dimension of the climate and health movements: gender. Panelists discuss how the Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) framework has informed their approach to these issues, along with their experience more broadly working at the intersection of health, climate change, and gender. This event is part of the Georgetown University Global Health Security Seminar Series. (Video or Multimedia)
10/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: RAND Corporation. Published: 10/2019. This eight-page research brief offers a systematic assessment of the past, present, and possible futures of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids. The assessment is rooted in secondary data analysis, literature and document reviews, international case studies, and key informant interviews. It found that overdoses involving fentanyl and other synthetic opioids claimed more than 30,000 lives in 2018, a 10-fold increase since 2013, and that synthetic opioids drive up deaths rather than the number of users. (PDF)
09/27/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Georgetown University. Published: 9/27/2019. This 56-minute seminar features a discussion with Ron Klain, the White House Ebola Response Coordinator for the 2014-15 Ebola epidemic, who compares and contrasts the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and response to the West African outbreak in 2014-15. This event is part of the Global Health Security Seminar Series, co-sponsored by Georgetown’s Center for Global Health Science and Security and the Global Health Initiative. (Video or Multimedia)
06/20/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Child Health and Development Institute of Connecticut, Inc. (CHDI). Published: 6/20/2019. This report details how in 2017, the Connecticut Department of Children and Families and the Child Health and Development Institute of Connecticut started disseminating Bounce Back, an evidence-based adaptation of Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) for elementary-aged children, to schools to assist younger students experiencing traumatic stress. Children receiving Bounce Back showed a 75 percent reduction in symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder following participation in the intervention. (Text)
06/12/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Homeland Defense and Security Information Analysis Center (HDIAC). Published: 6/12/2019. This 55-minute webinar addresses the threat posed by rising levels of antibiotic resistance around the globe, and explores means of predicting pathogenic resistance in order to limit or preempt its effects. It examines an approach that combines biophysics, genomics, and experimental evolution to identify and characterize successful evolutionary trajectories, and then link those intermediates to the overall evolutionary trajectory of bacterial populations. (Video or Multimedia)
05/08/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Georgetown University. Published: 5/8/2019. This one-hour, 34-minute panel discussion features experts who played an important role in the development of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Global Disease Detection (GDD) program. They review the history of the GDD program in the context of CDC and the Division of Global Health Protection’s mission to advance global health security. They also discuss important global health security initiatives currently underway to protect the United States from emerging and re-emerging life-threatening infectious diseases. This event is part of the Georgetown University Global Health Security Seminar Series. (Video or Multimedia)
04/12/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Georgetown University. Published: 4/12/2019. This one-hour, six-minute seminar takes a look at the relationship of vaccines and global health security – where it’s been, where it is now, and what may be around the bend on the road ahead. It discusses how before global health security became a term of art, vaccines were protecting communities from infectious diseases and outbreaks, and their disruptive effects on health and society. This event is part of the Georgetown University Global Health Security Seminar Series. (Video or Multimedia)
03/15/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Georgetown University. Published: 3/15/2019. The speaker in this one-hour seminar presents a series of web-based visualization platforms for use in infectious disease outbreaks, developed in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). These tools help quickly identify areas where additional support for outbreak preparedness and response may be needed. After being cross-referenced with healthcare system and medical countermeasure availability, the results provide early warning on national trends in illness. This event is part of the Georgetown University Global Health Security Seminar Series. (Video or Multimedia)
12/12/2018 12:00 AM EST
Source: Homeland Defense and Security Information Analysis Center (HDIAC). Published: 12/12/2018. This 43-minute webinar discusses findings from the 2018 State of the Art Report on Methods for Investigating Chemical/Biological Weapons Use. It reviews highlights of the report, and offers a summary of emerging trends and future directions regarding developments and needs in the field. It includes information on detection methodologies, diagnostics modalities, forensic investigation techniques, biological-based sensors for drinking water analysis, and supply chain management-based situational awareness. (Video or Multimedia)
12/01/2018 12:00 AM EST
Source: National Mass Violence Victimization Resource Center (NMVVRC). Published: 12/2018. This 12-page document provides acronyms that victim assistance or allied professionals, or anyone working with victims, survivors, or communities should be familiar with in all readiness, response, and resilience activities relevant to mass violence incidents. They are related to state and local agencies, organizations, and leaders; plans, policies, procedures, and processes; laws; victim/survivor assistance and victims’ rights; and terminology used in training and technical assistance initiatives. (PDF)
11/18/2018 12:00 AM EST
Source: Georgetown University. Published: 11/18/2018. In this one-hour 13-minute webinar, the speaker discusses and demonstrates several novel technologies for responding to pandemics, and discusses the work of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the Department of Defense, whose mission is to make pivotal investments in breakthrough technologies for national security. That mission includes ensuring health security for citizens of the United States and protecting the armed forces from biological threats. This event is part of the Georgetown University Global Health Security Seminar Series. (Video or Multimedia)
10/20/2018 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Georgetown University. Published: 10/20/2018. A One Health approach embodies the recognition that human, animal, and ecological health are inextricably linked, and has led to important developments in global health education, research, and practice. In this 54-minute seminar, Dr. William Karesh, who coined the term One Health, discusses the benefits, barriers, and future prospects for One Health in the 21st century. This event is part of the Georgetown University Global Health Security Seminar Series. (Video or Multimedia)
10/01/2010 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Child Health and Development Institute of Connecticut, Inc. (CHDI). Published: 10/2010. This report defines key components of a trauma-informed approach for child-serving programs, reviews measures of a trauma-informed approach, and provides examples of promising surveys. It provides recommendations for organizations, programs, or systems that are interested in assessing the extent to which they are trauma-informed, and discusses advancing research on trauma-informed approaches. (Text)
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