Toward a More Strategic National Stockpile

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Troy A. Rule
PLoS ONE ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. e16094 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nedialko B. Dimitrov ◽  
Sebastian Goll ◽  
Nathaniel Hupert ◽  
Babak Pourbohloul ◽  
Lauren Ancel Meyers

2020 ◽  
Vol 98 (4) ◽  
pp. 1058-1090
Author(s):  
ROBERT HANDFIELD ◽  
DANIEL JOSEPH FINKENSTADT ◽  
EUGENE S. SCHNELLER ◽  
A. BLANTON GODFREY ◽  
PETER GUINTO

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian A. Jackson ◽  
Kay Sullivan Faith

AbstractObjectiveAlthough significant progress has been made in measuring public health emergency preparedness, system-level performance measures are lacking. This report examines a potential approach to such measures for Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) operations.MethodsWe adapted an engineering analytic technique used to assess the reliability of technological systems—failure mode and effects analysis—to assess preparedness. That technique, which includes systematic mapping of the response system and identification of possible breakdowns that affect performance, provides a path to use data from existing SNS assessment tools to estimate likely future performance of the system overall.ResultsSystems models of SNS operations were constructed and failure mode analyses were performed for each component. Linking data from existing assessments, including the technical assistance review and functional drills, to reliability assessment was demonstrated using publicly available information. The use of failure mode and effects estimates to assess overall response system reliability was demonstrated with a simple simulation example.ConclusionsReliability analysis appears an attractive way to integrate information from the substantial investment in detailed assessments for stockpile delivery and dispensing to provide a view of likely future response performance.(Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2013;7:96-104)


2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S1) ◽  
pp. s59-s59
Author(s):  
A.E. Piombino

This session offers an overview of the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) and the Cities Readiness Initiative (CRI), including CHEM PACK. Managed by the US Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “push-packs” of this critical federal cache of pharmaceuticals and medical materiel are at sites located throughout the country. The CDC's CRI is a federally funded program designed to compliment the SNS and enhance preparedness in the nation's largest cities and Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA) where more than 50% of the US population resides. Through CRI, state and large metropolitan public health departments continue refining plans to respond to a large-scale bioterrorism attack by dispensing antibiotics to the entire population of an identified MSA with 48 hours. The SNS Technical Assistance Review (TAR) will be reviewed, as well as best practices and lessons learned from successful public health emergency preparedness and response programs throughout the US.


PLoS Currents ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. RRN1127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nedialko Dimitrov ◽  
Sebastian Goll ◽  
Lauren Ancel Meyers ◽  
Babak Pourbohloul ◽  
Nathaniel Hupert

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