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Review of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Smallpox Vaccination Program Implementation: Letter Report 6

Released:: July 6, 2004
Type:: Letter Report
Topic(s):: Diseases, Public Health
Activity:: Smallpox Vaccination Program Implementation
Board(s):: Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice

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 preparedness, and makes several recommendations about the importance of interagency collaboration for public health preparedness, the need to learn from existing research and practical experience from diverse fields, and the need to continuously improve performance in public health preparedness.

The report also reviews what has been learned from disaster research and disaster practice, and from other preparedness-related activities that are occurring in the federal government.

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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 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
Review of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Smallpox Vaccination Program Implementation: Letter Report 4 In its fourth letter report, the Committee on Smallpox Vaccination Program Implementation makes several recommendations to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention related to the integration of smallpox preparedness into overall public health preparedness, implementation of the President's policy on offering smallpox vaccine to members of the general public who insist on receiving it, and selected aspects of overall smallpox vaccination program implementation.
Released: August 12, 2003