New Report Card on Infectious Disease Outbreaks, Including Ebola, Enterovirus, Superbugs, to be Released, Includes National & State-by-State Info
Audio press conference on Dec. 18, 10-11 a.m. ET
Press briefing conference call to release “Outbreaks: Protecting Americans from Infectious Diseases,” which includes a report card for how well states scored on 10 indicators of strategies to prevent and control infectious disease outbreaks in addition to national and global concerns.
Some topics featured in the report include emerging new diseases like Ebola, Chikungunya and Chagas; antibiotic-resistant Superbugs; healthcare-associated infections such as MRSA; the resurgence of old threats like whooping cough and tuberculosis; HIV/AIDS and hepatitis; and the ability to respond to bioterrorism attacks.
The Outbreaks report-which found troubling errors, lapses and scrambles- will be released by the Trust for America’s Health and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
WHEN: 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. (ET), Thursday, December 18, 2014
WHO: Jeffrey Levi, PhD, Executive Director, Trust for America’s Health
Eric Toner, MD, Senior Associate, UPMC Center for Health Security
HOW: Please contact Albert Lang at (202) 864-5941 or alang@tfah.org at TFAH to reserve a line for the audio conference and to access embargoed materials. To access the call, dial 1-888-329-8862 and use passcode 3753589.
The call will be moderated. Please call in a few minutes before the scheduled start time to avoid delays. The call is for credentialed media only.