USPHS Scientific & Training Symposium: SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM AGENDA
08:30 a.m. – 09:30 a.m. United States Public Health Role in Global Disease Detection
Copper Ballroom, Tucson Convention Center
Moderator: Timothy Cote, MD MPH
CAPT Scott Dowell, MD, MPH, USPHS, Global Disease Detection and Emergency Response, Coordinating Office of Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
This presentation will explore the critical role of the United States and its public health providers in global disease detection.
Today the world faces an undiminished threat of a pandemic from influenza A (H5N1), while old diseases like yellow fever and modern ones like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) threaten to re-emerge from natural reservoirs or lab accidents.
Global disease threats will require global collaborations, and the World Health Organization will play a vital leadership role in the control of new threats. The revised International Health Regulations require member states to contribute, and none is more capable than the United States (U.S.) U.S. resources include the overseas laboratories of the United States Navy and Army, an extensive network of research collaborations supported by the National Institutes of Health, the development resources of the United States Agency for International Development and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s technical experts stationed in some 43 countries, with substantial global disease detection centers in six. U.S. public health officials can contribute a great deal to mitigating emerging disease threats. This session will discuss the threats and the potential role of the United States in addressing them.
At the end of the session, participants will be able to:
• Discuss the scope of global emerging infectious disease security threats at the beginning of the new millennium
• List several concrete ways that U.S. public health is contributing to the detection and mitigation of these security threats.
04:00
p.m. – 05:00 p.m. Commissioned Corps Leadership in Public Health and Prevention
Copper Ballroom, Tucson Convention Center
Moderator: CAPT William Haffner, USPHS (Ret), Vice President, PHS Commissioned Officers Foundation
RADM Steven Galson, USPHS, Acting U.S. Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service
In the Symposium’s closing keynote RADM Steven Galson, the Acting United States Surgeon General, will examine the evolving role of the Commissioned Corps in a rapidly-changing public health environment.
At the end of the session, participants will be able to:
• Articulate the key issues facing the public health workforce
• Identify historical examples where key investment in public health workforce development led to disproportionate improvement and advances in improving public health
• Lead a discussion relating a strong Commissioned Corps public health workforce to improvements in public health