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Lessons Learned as Unused H1N1 Vaccines Expire

Posted by CHHS RAs on July 23, 2010.

By Meaghan McCann
CHHS Research Assistant, summer 2010

There is a surprising addition to list of lessons learned from the U.S. response to the 2009 H1N1 outbreak: sometimes being over-prepared has its own risks.

Preparedness, prevention, and pertussis

Posted by CHHS RAs on July 9, 2010.

By Melissa Kim
CHHS Research Assistant, summer 2010

Pan American Medical Society Meeting

Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 7:00pm

Washington, DC

CHHS Health Director Dr. Marita Mike will speak on vaccine development.

Pan American Medical Society Meeting

CHHS Health Director says H1N1 could peak again

March 10, 2010

The Gazette (Maryland)

Excerpt:

"It wouldn't be surprising to see another peak this year," said Marita Mike, health director at the University of Maryland Center for Health and Homeland Security. "When you look at flu outbreaks in the past, there were multiple peaks."

Needles in the H1N1 Haystack

Sunday, February 21, 2010

When children are accidentally vaccinated at school without parental consent, compensation may be hard to find.

Can My Boss Stick it to Me? Courts May Give a Shot in the Arm to Employer-Mandated H1N1 Vaccines

Monday, February 22, 2010

The H1N1 influenza virus, more commonly known as “swine flu,” emerged in the spring of 2009. In response to the 2009 H1N1 influenza outbreak, New York State Health Commissioner Richard Daines, MD, enacted an emergency regulation requiring all New York healthcare personnel to receive the seasonal influenza and H1N1 influenza vaccine by November 30, 2009 as a precondition of employment.

CHHS Director discusses development of an Anthrax vaccine

February 28, 2010

The Capital (Annapolis)

Excerpt:

Michael Greenberger, the founder and director of the University of Maryland's Center for Health and Homeland Security in Baltimore, said this isn't hype.

"We went through a phase sometime after Sept. 11 where people forgot about terrorism as a threat," he said.

Shooting the Moon: Should states require the H1N1 vaccine for healthcare workers?

Friday, December 18, 2009

On June 11, 2009, the director of the World Health Organization (WHO) raised the phase of alert in the Global Influenza Plan from level five to level six. The cause for this was the H1N1 virus which had already affected several countries. A level five alert is declared when more than one country in a single WHO geographic region is affected by the same virus.

WMD recommendations turn to action-items

Posted by Robin Clark on November 6, 2009.

Last year, the bi-partisan Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism provided the grave warning that “unless the world community acts decisively and with great urgency, it is more likely than not that a weapon of mass destruction will be used in a terrorist attack somewhere in the world by the end of

Associated Individuals

Robin Clark

9th Annual 9/11 Commemoration Event – “Adapting to New Threats: H1N1 Flu and You”

CHHS Director Michael Greenberger, JD, joined CHHS Health Director Marita Mike, MD, JD; Professor Diane Hoffmann, JD, MS, director of the Law & Health Care Program at the University of Maryland School of Law; and Professor Wilbur Chen, MD, MS, from the University of Maryland School of Medicine Center for Vaccine Development, for "Adapting to New Threats: H1N1 Flu and You" on Sept. 16, 2009.