Center for Public Health Preparedness

Archived Webcasts

Archived Webcasts

Click on the links below to view archived webcasts of recent HSPH-CPHP events:

A Nation Prepared: A Federal Perspective on Preparedness and Response Efforts for Emergency Support Function 8, Public Health, and Medical Services

Speaker: Commander Patricia Pettis, Regional Emergency Coordinator - Region IV, Health and Human Services, Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response
May 1, 2008

Volunteers for Disaster Preparedness:
Evolving National and State Experiences with the Medical Reserve Corps

Speakers: Howard K. Koh, MD, MPH,  Associate Dean of Public Health Practice, HSPH, and
John Auerbach, MBA, Commissioner of Massachusetts Department of Public Health
April 23, 2008

Humanitarian Myths: Twelve Myths and Misconceptions in Disaster Response
Speaker: Michael VanRooyen, MD, MPH, Co-Director, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
December 17, 2007

Beyond Borders to Common Ground: Regional Preparedness for Public Health
Speaker: Charlie Ishikawa, MSPH, Public Health Planner for Region 4b, Cambridge Advanced Practice Center for Emergency Preparedness
October 25, 2007

Strategies for Crisis Risk Communication
Speaker: Howard Koh, M.D., M.P.H., Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of the Practice of Public Health and Associate Dean for Public Health; Associate Dean of Public Health Practice and K. "Vish" Viswanath, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Society, Human Development and Health in the Faculty of Public Health
May 23, 2007

2007 Spring Symposium: The Next Phase of Emergency Preparedness
Speakers: Joseph Barbera, MD, Co-Director, The Institute for Crisis, Disaster and Risk Management, George Washington University; Nicole Lurie, MD MSPH, Director, RAND Center for Population Health and Health Disparities; Juliette Kayyem, JD, Undersecretary of Homeland Security, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
May 8, 2007

Case Studies from Boston : Best Practices, Current Threats, and a Retrospective Look at the Last Five Years
Speaker: Anita Barry, MD, MPH, Director of Communicable Disease Control, Boston Public Health Commission
April 25, 2007

The Psychological Toll of Hurricane Katrina
Speaker: Ronald Kessler, PhD, Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
April 11, 2007

The Prepare to Prosper Approach: Reflections from a Symposium for Populations with Special Health Care Needs
Speaker: Ana-Marie Jones, Executive Director of Collaborating Agencies Responding to Disasters (CARD)
April 6, 2007

Responding to Public Health Emergencies: Staffing and Training in Boston
Speakers: Brad Cohen, Director of the DelValle Institute for Emergency Preparedness and Brian Mazmanian, Program Manager at the Boston Public Health Commission
February 28, 2007

Legal and Ethical Aspects of Public Health Preparedness
Speakers: Donna Levin, JD, General Counsel, Massachusetts Department of Public Health and Benjamin Moulton, JD, MPH, Executive Director of the American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics.
January 24, 2007

Equity in Preparedness: A Collaborative Symposium for Populations with Special Healthcare Needs in Boston
Speakers: Ana-Marie Jones, Executive Director of Collaborating Agencies Responding to Disasters (CARD); John Auerbach, Executive Director of the Boston Public Health Commission; Jeffrey Timperi, Special Populations Liason, Massachusetts Department of Public Health; James Hunt, CEO, Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers; Panelists: Jonathan Scott; James O’Connell, MD; Jonathan Epstein, MEMS, EMT-P; Virginia Tritschler, RN, MHA; Barbara Ceconi, MSW; Kurt Kuss, MSW
December 6, 2006

Distance Learning: Building a Creative Learning Environment
Speaker: Gary Moore, DrPH, Co-Investigator, Center for Public Health Preparedness
November 29, 2006

Disaster Recovery and Mitigation
Speaker: Cristine McCombs, Director, Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency
October 26, 2006

Massachusetts Program to Promote Local Continuity of Operations Planning: Training for Exercise Facilitators and Evaluators
Speakers: Dr. Paul Biddinger, MD, FACEP, Associate Director, Center for Public Health Preparedness; Michael Stoto, PhD, Senior Advisor for Evaluation, Center for Public Health Preparedness, Harvard School of Public Health.
October 23, 2006

Using Exercises and Drills to Enhance and Measure Preparedness
Speaker: Paul Biddinger, MD, Associate Director, Center for Public Health Preparedness; Director of Operations and Director of Prehospital Care and Disaster Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital Emergency Department
September 29, 2006

Preparing Public Health Workers for the Psychological Challenges of Disaster Response
Speaker: Todd Holzman, MD, Chief Psychiatrist, Disaster Services, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Department of Mental Health
May 16, 2006

Public Health Surveillance & Response: A Local Perspective
Speaker: Anita Barry, MD, MPH, Director, Communicable Disease Control, Boston Public Health Commission
April 18, 2006

Strategic National Stockpile Basics
Speaker: Jon Burstein, MD, FACEP, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School
March 28, 2006

Hurricane Katrina: Observations from the Field
Speaker: Joshua Frances, HSPH-CPHP
November 15, 2005

Building Emergency Response Capacity: Interagency Linkages across Massachusetts
Speaker: Harold Cox, Chief Public Health Officer, Cambridge Health Alliance
October 18, 2005

Boston Disaster Response: After 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina
Speaker: Carlo Boccia, Director of Homeland Security, City of Boston
September 20, 2005

Anticipating Avian Influenza & Other Emerging Infectious Diseases of Public Health Importance: Lessons Learned from SARS
Speakers: Gerilynne Nephew, RN BScN, Manager of the Communicable Disease Liaison Unit, Toronto Public Health; Gabriel Leung, MD MPH, Associate Professor, University of Hong Kong; Marc Lipstich, PhD, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, HSPH
May 10, 2005