July Newsletter - 2004

Center Changes Name to Institute for Bio-Security
Name change designed to better describe our work and be easier to remember. Read the full story.

Institute Newsletter Seeks Submissions from its Readers
The Institute Newsletter board recently received permission to request submissions of articles of interest from our subscribers. Pieces (op-ed, book reviews, commentaries, notices of conferences or published works, etc.) should run 100-300 words and pertain to matters 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.

Standing on the Stage of Terror a Great Success 
The Institute helps to train participants on how to communicate with the media in the event of a bioterrorism event Read the full story.

The Institute Kicks Off New Marketing Initiative
Spreading the word about the Institute to increase collaboration in the Bioterrorism field. Read the full story.

Institute Adjunct Professor Zelicoff continues refinements for the syndromic surveillance program SYRIS 
He was in Central Massachusetts recently installing the system for the region's public health and EMS systems. Read the full story.

Simpox Continues to Make Progress
This bioterrorism simulation exercise is nearing completion. Read the full story.

Institute Hosts Focus Group Workshop for FBI
Institute hosts one of three regional focus group workshops to help counter the WMD terrorist threat. Read the full story.

Information Of Note:

• The Institute wants to wish two of its members good luck in their future endeavors. Susan Prichard and Christy McFarland will be pursuing other opportunities. Both of these team members were invaluable resources to the Institute and we all wish them a heartfelt goodbye and good luck.

• Saint Louis University School of Public Health Adjunct Associate Professor and long standing member of the Institute's Advisory Committee, Dr. Louis Tripoli, was called to active duty in Iraq with his Marine Division.  Please join us in keeping Dr. Tripoli in your thoughts and wishing him, and all our service men and women, a safe return.
  
  
• The first meeting of the Institute's new "Journal Club"” was held on Tuesday, July 6, 2004.  The article discussed was Richard Danzig's "Catastrophic Bioterrorism:  What Is To Be Done?"” published by the National Defense University (ISBN 0-16-051468-1).  This article provides a thorough summary of the threat bioterrorism poses and policy recommendations to prevent a bioterrorism threat.

Conferences and Events of Interest
NACCHO Annual 2004 Conference
July 14-16, St. Paul, Minnesota

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

Summer Institute of Public Health Practice: Public Health Preparedness: Tools for the Frontline
August 2-6, 2004, Seattle, WA.

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

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