Secretary's Council on Public
Health Preparedness Named
August 30, 2002- Secretary of Health and Human Services
(HHS) Tommy Thompson Aug. 23 announced
the 21 members of the Secretary's Council on Public Health
Preparedness. Chaired by D.A. Henderson, M.D., the Secretary's
principal science advisor for public health preparedness,
the group will "advise the department on appropriate
actions to prepare for, and respond to, public health emergencies,
including acts of bioterrorism." The group's first meeting
was held on Aug. 26 and 27 and covered an agenda including
bioterrorism preparedness and response programs, state preparedness
programs, lessons learned from last fall's anthrax attacks,
research and development efforts, development of new products
related to bioterrorism, and public health emergency response
planning.
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