12/12/2019 12:00 AM EST
Source: ADA [Americans with Disabilities Act] National Network. Published: 12/12/2019. This one-hour, 30-minute webinar provides an overview of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)'s 504 Disability Access Plan and strategies the agency is employing to address the need for enhanced access for people with disabilities in five focus areas. Participants will gain an understanding of FEMA's responsibilities to enhance access for people with disabilities in its public-facing programs and activities; and learn about how the focus areas relate to helping people before, during, and after disasters, including people with disabilities, and how FEMA's initiative relates to access obligations at the state, local, tribal, and territorial levels. (Video or Multimedia)
12/12/2019 12:00 AM EST
Source: National Governors Association (NGA). Published: 12/12/2019. This one-hour, 29-minute webinar, held in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Bar Association and part of the webinar series on Legal Preparedness for Public Health Emergencies, focuses on providing an overview of the legal authorities to collect, use, share, and protect information in a public health emergency. Experts also discuss constitutional considerations with sharing medical information and applicable federal and state statutes. (Video or Multimedia)
12/05/2019 12:00 AM EST
Source: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division (HMD). Published: 12/5/2019. This public workshop, held on December 4-5, 2019, examined the major advancements in scientific, technological, and social innovations that have been taking place to tackle microbial threats, including diagnostics, vaccine development and production, new antimicrobials, and non-pharmaceutical interventions and surveillance. Presentation topics included cutting-edge methods and tools such as advances in predictive modeling, digital platforms, and precision public health, and how to best make use of them in practice. (Video or Multimedia)
12/04/2019 12:00 AM EST
Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Published: 12/4/2019. This 88-page report details how more people in 2019 needed humanitarian assistance than forecast, largely because of conflicts and extreme climate events. Emerging risks and trends include climate change, which is increasing people’s vulnerability to humanitarian crises; and infectious diseases, which are becoming more prevalent and harder to control because of conflict, weak health systems, poor water and sanitation, and lack of access to vaccinations. The report also discusses how conflict, disasters, and economic shocks caused food insecurity to reach crisis levels in 53 countries. (Video or Multimedia)
12/02/2019 12:00 AM EST
Source: Center for Health Security [Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health]. Published: 12/2/2019. This web page provides the agenda, information, and presentations from the second annual Global Forum on Scientific Advances Important to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, held on December 2, 2019. The forum was held to facilitate engagement between leading scientists and States Parties delegations to raise awareness about emerging biological capabilities, expand the community dedicated to bolstering nonproliferation norms, and explore solutions for biological weapons challenges. (Text)
12/01/2019 12:00 AM EST
Source: National Academies Press (NAP). Published: 12/2019. In order to help illuminate the major needs for an international coordinated response to chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) events, highlight major challenges, and develop a common basis for future discussions, an ad hoc committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine organized an international, science-based CBRN resilience workshop in Tokyo, Japan, on October 23-25, 2017. This seven-page report summarizes the workshop and presentations. (Text)
08/22/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: ADA [Americans with Disabilities Act] National Network. Published: 8/22/2019. This one-hour, 10-minute webinar discusses how the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) impacts persons with opioid use disorders in a variety of health care settings. It covers how people with opioid and other substance use disorders may be considered people with disabilities under the ADA's definition of disability, and the ADA's protections for people with opioid use disorder. (Video or Multimedia)
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