Public Hearing: 9 a.m.
Panel 1 – Public Health Preparedness and Incorporation into Chain of Command
1. Colonel Robert Kadlec, M.D., Staff Director, Subcommittee on Bioterrorism and Public Health, U. S. Senate, and former National Security Council and White House Advisor Dr. Kadlec's PowerPoint presentation. Additional document submitted: Biodefense for the 21st Century.
2. Alan P. Zelicoff, M.D., Senior Scientific Consultant, ARES Corporation and former senior scientist, Center for Arms Control and National Security, Sandia National Laboratories Texas Experience - Syris Disease Surveillance. Anthrax response slide. Smallpox response slide.
3. Eric M. Koscove, M.D., Chief, Emergency Department, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Santa Clara, and bioterrorism lead, Kaiser National Healthcare Continuity Management Committee
4. Richard J. Burton, M.D., M.P.H., Director, Department of Health and Human Services, Placer County; former President, California Conference of Local Health Officers
5. Stephen Waterman, M.D., M.P.H., Quarantine Medical Officer and U.S.-Mexico Border Infectious Disease Coordinator, U.S. Centers for Disease Control Additional slides submitted.
6. Peter Abbott, M.D., M.P.H., President, California Public Health Association - North
7. Senator
William Campbell, Chair, Governor’s Blue Ribbon Fire Commission
Link to the Blue
Ribbon Fire Commission Final Report.
8. Brigadier General (Retired) John E. Iffland, U.S. National Guard and Air Wing Commander, Federal Task Force – Wildfires
9. Christopher A. Godley, Emergency Services Manager, Marin County Sheriff’s Office of Emergency Services
10. Jim Rissmiller, Legislative Director, CDF Firefighters and Battalion Chief, San Bernardino County
11. Jon Hamm, Chief Executive Officer, California Association of Highway Patrolmen
12. Sandra Shewry, Director, California Department of Health Services
13. Richard Watson, Interim Director, Emergency Medical Services Authority
14. Henry
Renteria,
Director, Governor’s Office of Emergency Services.
Additinal document submitted: Map
of California Federally Declared Disasters 1991-2005
15. Major General Thomas W. Eres, Adjutant General, California National Guard
16. Matthew
R. Bettenhausen, Director, Office of Homeland Security
Additional Submissions
Lester
Breslow, MD, MPH, Dean Emeritus, UCLA School of Public Health
California
Public Health Association-North and the Southern California Public Health
Association
California
Medicine & Public Health Initiative Steering Committee
Carmen
R. Nevarez, MD, MPH, Medical Director & VP of External Relations,
Public Health Institute.
Attachment: "Readiness
of California State Public Health to respond adequately to potential bioterrorism
event."
Jonathan
E. Fielding, MD, MPH, Director of Public Health and Health Officer,
Los Angeles County Department
of Public Health
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