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Review of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Smallpox Vaccination Program Implementation: Letter Report 3

Released:: June 16, 2003
Type:: Letter Report
Topic(s):: Diseases, Public Health
Activity:: Smallpox Vaccination Program Implementation
Board(s):: Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice

This is the third letter report from the Committee on Smallpox Vaccination Program Implementation. This brief report reaffirms the need for a pause in the smallpox vaccination program and provides commentary about the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's smallpox program activities to date, including next steps in the pre-event vaccination program.

The report also provides a discussion about the smallpox components of the recently released Continuation Guidance for the Cooperative Agreement on Public Health Preparedness and Response for Bioterrorism-Budget Year Four.

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The Smallpox Vaccination Program: Public Health in an Age of Terrorism This report discusses lessons learned from the smallpox vaccination program, concludes that there is a need to balance scientific communication with national security imperatives in the context of such programs, and recommends that smallpox preparedness should be comprehensively assessed.
Released: March 3, 2005
Review of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Smallpox Vaccination Program Implementation: Letter Report 6 In this report, the committee discusses some of the challenges and opportunities likely to arise as public health preparedness is being integrated into the broader field of emergency and disaster preparedne
Released: July 6, 2004
Review of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Smallpox Vaccination Program Implementation: Letter Report 5 In its fifth letter report, the Committee on Smallpox Vaccination Program Implementation makes several recommendations to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention related to the draft smallpox readiness indicators (part of a larger set of public health emergency preparedness indicators), scenarios for testing the relevance of the smallpox readiness indicators, and selected aspects of the overall smallpox preparedness and vaccination program.
Released: December 19, 2003