Cross Borders Issues Roundtable

Lessons Learned: Models for Planning and Response

This event was held on May 2, 2006

Conference Proceedings

Powerpoints from the Event

Overview of Current Domestic & U.S./Canadian Border Public Health Efforts

Public Health Collaborative Efforts

U.S. Perspective (powerpoint) 
(Dan Stier, JD, Public Health Analyst, Public Health Law Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia)

Canadian Perspective (powerpoint)
(Wayne Dauphinee, MPH, Executive Director, Emergency Management Branch, Ministry of Health, British Columbia; Co-Chair, Emergency Preparedness and Response Expert Group, Pan-Canadian Public Health Network, Victoria, British Columbia)

Regional Programs Crossing Canadian Border

Speakers will address key domestic features, program characteristics, personnel and international features; strategies employed to build alliances, including the role of policymakers; strengths, weaknesses and lessons learned; and challenges and successes related to public/private collaborations, including health care systems. 

Pacific Northwest Initiative (powerpoint)
(Wayne Turnberg, PhD Candidate, MSPH, Cross-Border Surveillance Workshop Coordinator, Bioterrorism Epidemiologist, Office of Communicable Disease Epidemiology, Washington State Department of Health, Shoreline, Washington)

Great Lakes Border Initiative (powerpoint)
(Katherine Allen-Bridson, RN, BSN, CIC, Border Health Program Coordinator, Michigan Department of Community Health, Lansing, Michigan)

State to State/Regional Initiative, Mid-America Alliance (powerpoint)

Speaker will address key features, program characteristics, and; strategies employed to build alliances, including the role of policymakers; strengths, weaknesses and lessons learned; and challenges and successes related to public/private collaborations, including health care systems.
(Kathy Hastings, JD, MPH, RN, FAAN, Director, Mid America Alliance, Broomfield, Colorado)

Health Systems and Business Perspective

Health Care Industry (powerpoint)
(Fred Peterson, Jr, MPH, Director of Constituent Services, Hospital Council of Western Pennsylvania, Warrendale, Pennsylvania)

Private Industry (powerpoint)
(Gary Olmstead, PhD, CIH, CSP, CHMM, Corporate Director of Safety and Environmental Management, General Mills; Adjunct Professor, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota)

Local Collaborations (powerpoint)

Minnesota Department of Health 
(Karen Moser, Public Health Preparedness Consultant, Minnesota Department of Health, Fergus Falls, Minnesota)

Fargo Cass Public Health 
(James Hausauer, Emergency Preparedness and Response Coordinator Region V, Fargo Cass Public Health, Fargo, North Dakota)

More information about this event

Purpose: Recent natural disasters and current concerns about pandemic influenza highlight our interdependence and need for collaboration.  This program is intended to increase understanding regarding common components of existing collaborations and provide participants the opportunity to learn from identified strengths and weaknesses of cross-border emergency preparedness planning models that have been developed.

Method: Presenters with practical experience in these collaborations will identify components, strengths, weaknesses and problem solving strategies that contribute to enhancing preparedness across borders.  Small group session will focus on practical application of ‘lessons learned.’

Audience: Lead public health emergency preparedness planning personnel at the state level, lawmakers, governors’ office representatives, policymakers, representatives from state associations of counties, representatives from national/international industries / corporations, and local health department representatives from state and national boundary areas, tribal preparedness representatives, and other preparedness partners.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this Roundtable, participants will be able to:

1. Summarize key planning components necessary for developing cross-border collaboration.
2. Identify key processes and personnel necessary for developing cross-border collaboration.
3. Describe strategies that contributed to successful collaboration across state and national borders.
4. Describe collaboration building strategies derived from lessons learned.
5. Identify challenges related to the public/private collaboration in emergencies.
6. Develop at least one strategy for creating or enhancing cross-border preparedness collaboration applicable to their jurisdiction.

Sponsors

University of Minnesota Center for Public Health Preparedness
University of Iowa Upper Midwest Center for Public Health Preparedness