August Newsletter - 2004

Institute Newsletter Seeks Readers' Submissions
The Institute Newsletter board recently received permission to request submissions of articles of interest from our subscribers. Pieces (op-eds, book reviews, commentaries, notices of conferences or published works, etc.) should run 100-300 words and address issues of interest to the preparedness community and the subscribers of this newsletter. No guarantee of publishing is implied; however, within space and time limitations, every effort will be made to include pertinent and timely information submitted by our readers. Interested parties should send articles via email to bioterr@slu.edu.

Institute Members Publish Article on Bioterrorism Risk Perceptions of Public Health Professionals in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. 
This article presents a needs assessment survey of public health professionals before and after September 11, 2001 Read the full story.

Insitute for Bio-Security, APIC, University of Louisville, and Georgetown sponsor Bioterrorism Conference in Columbus, Ohio
Essential Elements of Bioterrorism Readiness for Healthcare and Public Health Professionals was well-received. Read the full story.

Institute Directors meet with International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism Director   
The meeting was designed to explore areas of mutual interest and ongoing collaboration. Read the full story.

Ten Guaranteed Ways to Ruin a Bioterrorism Response: a Humorous Reflection on a Serious Issue
The Institute's Infectious Disease expert provides a list of actions to avoid in a preparing for a real emergency. Read the full story.

Institute Adjunct Professor Zelicoff adds additional implementations for the syndromic surveillance program SYRIS
The Health Department in Lubbock, Texas is the next organization to implement the system. Read the full story.

Books Corner:
The inaugural review for this new newsletter feature is of a classic in the smallpox literature and one of the last definitive texts written before the disease was eradicated. It contains important information often overlooked in the contemporary writings on this very complex disease. Read the full story.

Back to School Preparedness Project for Teachers
Institute's multimedia technical director has developed a lesson plan to teach bioterrorism preparedness for families. Read the full story.

Information Of Note...

• We welcome a new member of the Institute's Advisory Committee, Judge James R. Dowd, to our team. Judge Dowd is a retired Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District judge who stepped down from the judiciary in October 2002. Judge Dowd has served at all levels of the state court system. Elected to his first term in office in 1978, he served as an associate circuit judge until his appointment as circuit judge in 1988. He was elected by his fellow judges to serve as assistant presiding judge from 1993 to 1995, and as presiding judge from 1995 to 1997. In 1997, he was appointed to the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, where his peers elected him to serve as chief judge in the 2001-2002 term of court. While an appellate judge, he also sat on the Supreme Court of Missouri by special assignment of the chief justice. Welcome, Judge Dowd!

• Institute Director Greg Evans, Ph.D., was quoted in the August 16 issue of the Springfield News-Leader about infectious disease education in the Branson, Missouri area. Here is the link to the article.

Conferences and Events of Interest
Mock Disaster 2004: Defining Preparedness
National Corrections and Law Enforcement Training and Technology Center
in partnership with the National Technology Transfer Center
September 9 - 11, 2004
Moundsville, West Virginia

Infectious Disease Society of America 2004 Annual Meeting
September 30 - October 3, 2004
Boston, MA.

National Conference on the Science and Law of Combating Terrorism
October 21-23, 2004
Pittsburgh, PA

Global Homeland Security Conference & Expo
Protecting the Nation's Critical Infrastructure and Key Assets
November 22 - 23, 2004
Arlington, VA

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