Event to Examine Public Health Response to Last Year’s Outbreak in Beaver County
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 14, 2004 — The University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Public Health Preparedness and Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH) will hold a symposium on Friday, Sept. 24, from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., to explore how public health and emergency response agencies and local first-responders managed the 2003 Hepatitis-A outbreak in Beaver County, Pa.
The symposium, “Anatomy of an Outbreak in Western Pennsylvania,” will include speakers from the Pennsylvania Department of Health Bureau of Epidemiology, Department of Agriculture and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A panel discussion will be led by a representative from GlaxoSmithKline with panelists from the Pennsylvania Department of Health and the Allegheny County Health Department.
The symposium will be held in the G-23 Auditorium at GSPH. To register, visit www.cphp.pitt.edu/upcphp or call (412) 383-2400.
Launched in July 2002, the University of Pittsburgh Center for Public Health Preparedness (www.cphp.pitt.edu/upcphp) is housed in the Center for Public Health Practice (www.cphp.pitt.edu), University of Pittsburgh GSPH. The center is part of the national network of Academic Public Health Preparedness Centers funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to train the public health workforce to respond to threats to our nation’s health from bioterrorism, infectious disease outbreaks and other public health emergencies.
Contact: Alan Aldinger
Patients and medical professionals may call 1-800-533-UPMC (8762) for more information.
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