Why Should You Attend the 2010 Public Health Preparedness Summit?

The 2010 Public Health Preparedness Summit, "Partners in Preparedness: Engaging a Community for a Successful Public Health Response," will strengthen and enhance the capabilities of public health professionals and other participants to plan and prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters and other public health emergencies. The Summit will achieve this goal by providing knowledge and learning sessions that enable participants to:

• Identify current priority areas in public health preparedness at the local, state, tribal, and national levels;
• Identify key gaps in planning, workforce development, and performance measurement across the public health system;
• Access key resources and tools that will enhance or sustain their professional work or volunteer role in planning for, responding to, and recovering from disasters and other public health emergencies; and
• Develop a network of professional colleagues who share a commitment to improving, enhancing, and sustaining the public health response to disasters.

Don't Miss Featured Speaker, John M. Barry

John M. Barry is a prize-winning and New York Times best-selling author whose books have won more than twenty awards. In 2005 the National Academies of Science named The Great Influenza, a study of the 1918 pandemic, the year’s outstanding book on science or medicine, and the Center for Biodefense and Emerging Pathogens gave Barry its 2005 “September Eleventh Award” for his contributions to pandemic preparedness. In 2006 the National Academies also invited him to give its annual Abel Wolman Distinguished Lecture; he is the only non-scientist ever to give that lecture. In 1998 Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America, won the Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians for the year’s best book of American history.

Following his keynote address, Mr. Barry will sign copies of The Great Influenza in the Summit Marketplace.

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