Agenda
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Thomas V. Inglesby, Director, Center for Biosecurity of UPMC 
Building the Team for Resilient Communities
Richard Serino, FEMA Deputy Administrator
Resilience in the Public Health and Healthcare Sectors
Nicole Lurie, Assistant Secretary for Preparedness & Response, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Grounding Federal Policy in the Evidence About Resilience
Monica Schoch-Spana, Senior Associate, Center for Biosecurity of UPMC; Chairperson, Resilience Research Work Group
PANEL 1: Action Plan to Make Community Resilience a Reality
Which basic steps can help strengthen local community resilience to extreme events? How can the federal government assist their replication nationwide?
Moderator: Monica Schoch-Spana, Senior Associate, Center for Biosecurity of UPMC
Panelists: - David Godschalk, Stephen Baxter Professor Emeritus of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Tim Lovell, Executive Director, Tulsa Partners, Inc.
- Joseph Donovan, Senior Vice President, Beacon Capital Partners
- Eric Toner, Senior Associate, Center for Biosecurity of UPMC
PANEL 2: Action Plan for Making Community Resilience a Reality (continued)
Moderator: Jennifer Nuzzo, Associate, Center for Biosecurity of UPMC
Panelists: - Roz Lasker, Clinical Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
- Meredith Li-Vollmer, Risk Communication Specialist, Public Health—Seattle & King County, Washington
- Irwin Redlener, Professor of Clinical Public Health and Director, National Center for Disaster Preparedness, Columbia University; Member, National Commission on Children and Disasters
- June Gin, Manager, Disaster Resilient Organization Program, Bay Area Preparedness Initiative of the Fritz Institute, San Francisco, CA
Lessons from History—and from Sea Level
John M. Barry, author, The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History and Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America; member, Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority
Presentation by Brian Kamoie, Senior Director for Preparedness Policy, National Security Staff, The White House.
Note: At the request of the speaker, Mr. Kamoie's talk was off the record.
PANEL 3: How to Survive the Big One – Resilience to a Major Earthquake
What changes in social and built environments could help California communities withstand the shocks associated with a catastrophic earthquake now being forecasted by experts? What kinds of federal policies could help facilitate those needed changes? Moderator: Dennis Mileti, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Colorado at Boulder
Panelists: - Arrietta Chakos, Director, Acting in Time Advance Recovery Project, Harvard Kennedy School
- Ana-Marie Jones, Executive Director, Collaborating Agencies Responding to Disaster (CARD), Alameda County, California
- Karen Marsh, Director, FEMA Community Preparedness Division
- Robert Olshansky, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Adam Rose, Research Professor of Policy, Planning and Development, University of Southern California
- Ellis Stanley, Sr., Director, Western Emergency Management Services at Dewberry, Los Angeles, CA
PANEL 4: How Are We Doing with Flu?
H1N1 Revelations About Resilience: Which federal preparedness policies helped communities cope with the medical and social demands imposed by the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic? What additional policies might enable localities and states to curtail the effects of an emergent epidemic, including a moderate-to-severe influenza pandemic? Moderator: Ann Norwood, Senior Associate, Center for Biosecurity of UPMC
Panelists: - Brooke Courtney, Associate, Center for Biosecurity of UPMC
- Serena Vinter, Senior Research Associate, Trust for America’s Health
- Cynthia Dold, Healthcare Coalition Program Manager, Public Health—Seattle & King County, Washington
- Alonzo Plough, Director, Emergency Preparedness and Response Program, Los Angeles County Public Health Department
- Sandra Crouse Quinn, Associate Professor of Behavioral and Community Health, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health
Concluding Remarks
Thomas V. Inglesby, Director, Center for Biosecurity of UPMC |
