Technologies to Enable Autonomous Detection for BioWatch: Ensuring Timely and Accurate Information for Public Health Officials : Workshop Summary

268 Pages·2014·8.84 MB·English

by  Board on Health Sciences Policy

Technologies to Enable
Autonomous Detection for
BioWatch: Ensuring Timely
and Accurate Information for
Public Health Officials

Workshop Summary

India Hook-Barnard, Sheena M. Posey Norris, and Joe
Alper, Rapporteurs

Board on Health Sciences Policy
Board on Life Sciences
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NOTICE: The workshop that is the subject of this workshop summary
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Homeland Security, Office of Health Affairs. The views presented in this
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Research Council). 2013. Technologies to Enable Autonomous Detection
for BioWatch: Ensuring Timely and Accurate Information for Public
Health Officials. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Technologies to Enable Autonomous Detection for BioWatch: Ensuring Timely and Accurate Information for Public Health Officials : Workshop Summary
PLANNING COMMITTEE FOR A WORKSHOP ON
STRATEGIES FOR COST-EFFECTIVE AND FLEXIBLE
BIODETECTION SYSTEMS THAT ENSURE TIMELY
AND ACCURATE INFORMATION FOR PUBLIC
HEALTH OFFICIALS1

WILLIAM RAUB (Chair), Science Advisor to the Secretary,
Department of Health and Human Services (Retired)
RITA COLWELL, Distinguished University Professor, University of
Maryland; Professor, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School
of Public Health
JEFFREY DUCHIN, Chief, Communicable Disease Epidemiology and
Immunization Section, Public Health–Seattle & King County;
Professor in Medicine, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,
University of Washington School of Medicine
SUZET M. McKINNEY, Deputy Commissioner, Bureau of Public
Health Preparedness and Emergency Response; Division of Women
and Children’s Health, Chicago Department of Public Health
BETH MALDIN MORGENTHAU, Assistant Commissioner, Bureau
of Policy, Community Resilience and Response, Office of
Emergency Preparedness and Response, New York City Department
of Health and Mental Hygiene
DONALD PROSNITZ, Independent Consultant
JOHN VITKO, Rector, St. Luke Church, Department of Homeland
Security (Retired)

IOM/NRC Staff

INDIA HOOK–BARNARD, Senior Program Officer
BRUCE M. ALTEVOGT, Senior Program Officer
SHEENA M. POSEY NORRIS, Research Associate
RACHEL KIRKLAND, Senior Program Assistant
JOE ALPER, Science Writer
ANDREW M. POPE, Board Director, Board on Health Sciences Policy
FRANCES E. SHARPLES, Board Director, Board on Life Sciences

1IOM planning committees are solely responsible for organizing the workshop,
identifying topics, and choosing speakers. The responsibility for the published workshop
summary rests with the workshop rapporteurs and the institution.
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Technologies to Enable Autonomous Detection for BioWatch: Ensuring Timely and Accurate Information for Public Health Officials : Workshop Summary
BOARD ON HEALTH SCIENCES POLICY1

C. THOMAS CASKEY (Chair), Baylor College of Medicine
ELI Y. ADASHI, Brown University
WYLIE BURKE, University of Washington
ROBERT M. CALIFF, Duke University Medical Center
DENNIS CHOI, Stony Brook University
KATHLEEN A. DRACUP, University of California, San Francisco
MICHAEL EHLERS, Pfizer, Inc.
NAOMI L. GERBER, George Mason University
LEWIS R. GOLDFRANK, Bellevue Hospital Center and New York
University Langone Medical Center
STEVEN E. HYMAN, Broad Institute of Harvard University and
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PAUL E. JARRIS, Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
JEFFREY KAHN, Johns Hopkins University
HARRY T. ORR, University of Minnesota
SHARON TERRY, Genetic Alliance
REED V. TUCKSON, Tuckson Health Connections, LLC
KEITH A. WAILOO, Princeton University
CLYDE YANCY, Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern
Memorial Hospital

IOM Staff

DONNA RANDALL, Administrative Assistant
ANDREW M. POPE, Director

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The responsibility for the published workshop summary rests with the workshop
rapporteurs and the institution.
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BOARD ON LIFE SCIENCES1

JO HANDELSMAN (Chair), Yale University
SEAN EDDY, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Farm Research
Campus
SARAH C. R. ELGIN, Washington University
DAVID R. FRANZ, Former Commander, U.S. Army Medical Research
Institute for Infection Diseases, Consultant
LOUIS J. GROSS, University of Tennessee
RICHARD A. JOHNSON, Arnold & Porter, LLC
JUDITH KIMBLE, University of Wisconsin, Madison
CATO T. LAURENCIN, University of Connecticut Health Center
ALAN I. LESHNER, American Association for the Advancement of
Science
KAREN E. NELSON, J. Craig Venter Institute
ROBERT M. NEREM, Georgia Institute of Technology
CAMILLE PARMESAN, University of Texas
ALISON G. POWER, Cornell University
MARGARET RILEY, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
JANIS C. WEEKS, University of Oregon
MARY WOOLLEY, Research!America

NRC Staff

JO L. HUSBANDS, Scholar/Senior Project Director
JAY B. LABOV, Senior Scientist/Program Director for Biology
Education
KATHERINE W. BOWMAN, Senior Program Officer
INDIA HOOK-BARNARD, Senior Program Officer
MARILEE K. SHELTON-DAVENPORT, Senior Program Officer
KEEGAN SAWYER, Program Officer
BETHELHEM M. BANJAW, Financial Associate
CARL G. ANDERSON, Program Associate
SAYYEDA AYESHA AHMED, Senior Program Assistant
FRANCES E. SHARPLES, Director

1National Research Council boards do not issue, review, or approve individual
documents. The responsibility for the published workshop summary rests with the
workshop rapporteurs and the institution.
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