The National Critical Infrastructure is growing and changing, so will this webpage!
The National Critical Infrastructure is growing and changing, so will this webpage!
Educate Public Health and healthcare professionals and their leadership; and inform and influence health policy makers and the general public concerning current and emerging threats to Public Health and Healthcare Infrastructure in order to promote preparedness particularly in advance of a long term or widespread disaster.
Goals:
1. Contribute to related FIR efforts
2. Focus on current and recent threats
Our members are experts in human and animal health, infectious diseases, systems engineering, public health and infrastructure protection; with extensive experience working with government at all levels.
1) How can Hospitals continue to function during a long term and widespread power outage? Using a systems engineering approach we are attempting to identify the major users of power (and water) in a modern hospital and then determine how we might prolong or even maintain services in an austere environment. As a part of our research we are interviewing medical personnel who are familiar with the adaptations made in the Ukrainian healthcare sector to accomplish the above objectives and keep providing medical services in a wartime/stressed environment.
2) Examine current and novel bio-threats to our population(s) and how existing bio-technology might be the greatest threat by modifying existing organisms or creating (novel) organisms. We plan to look at both organisms which affect animals and humans and have the possibility of cross-over; a One Health approach. There is ample reason to believe that using existing, off the shelf, (OTS) technology and with a modicum of user experience, a novel organism with Pandemic potential could be created.
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