Business Planning for Pandemic Influenza DVD SetBusiness Planning for Pandemic Influenza DVD Set (2006)

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Live Event Date: February 14-15, 2006
Recording Format: DVD; 2 discs
Length: 6.5 hours

Product Description

Video recording of key presentations and panel discussions from CIDRAP's Business Planning for Pandemic Influenza: A National Summit. Representatives from more than 200 companies gathered in Minneapolis February 14-15, 2006, to hear from experts about pandemic influenza and its implications for the business community.

Summit Objectives

  • Identify the critical risk assessment and mitigation, public policy, legal, supply chain and human resource elements of comprehensive planning for business continuity in the event of an influenza pandemic.
  • Provide business leaders with practical information needed to develop effective and timely corporate pandemic influenza plans.
  • Identify the role that businesses should play in the development of federal, state, regional and local government pandemic influenza preparedness plans.
  • Stimulate cross-business sector discussion of pandemic-related issues, interrelationships, and interdependencies of the business community.
  • Provide the business community with current and comprehensive scientific information needed for pandemic influenza business continuity planning.

Intended Audience

Business leaders with responsibilities for corporate governance, operations, human resources, supply chain management, legal, risk assessment and mitigation, strategic and crisis planning, business continuity, security, communications, investor relations, employee safety and employee travel management;

Government officials with responsibilities for pandemic influenza preparedness, private-sector infrastructure protection, international and national commerce and transportation;

Buy Now Business-related organization officials with responsibilities for providing leadership and consultation to private-sector efforts for pandemic influenza and business continuity planning and for working with government agencies to assure support for effective business continuity planning and stockpiling of products or raw materials critical to pandemic response.

Track Listing

DISC 1

Welcoming Remarks (11 min.)
Michael Osterholm, Daniel Christman, David Olson

Pandemic Influenza and Business (26 min.)
Hon. Michael Leavitt
Secretary of Health and Human Services
US Department of Health and Human Services
Washington, DC

Understanding Pandemic Influenza in the Modern World (62 min.)
Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH
Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy
Associate Director, DHS National Center for Food Protection and Defense
Professor, School of Public Health
Adjunct Professor, Medical School
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN

The Global Economic Implications of an Influenza Pandemic (35 min.)
Sherry Cooper, PhD
Global Economic Strategist and Executive Vice President
Harris Bank and BMO Financial Group
Toronto, Canada

Cross-Cutting Critical Infrastructure Availability and Business Continuity Planning (47 min.)
A Moderated Panel Discussion
Richard Knox (moderator), Massoud Amin, Arne Carlson, Anne Marie Kappel, Douglas Podolak, Steven Ross, Marshall Sanders, Chris Terzich

DISC 2

Context and Importance of the Government-Private Sector Relationship (30 min.)
Hon. Tommy Thompson, JD
Former Secretary of Health and Human Services
Chairman, Deloitte Center for Health Solutions
Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP
Washington, DC

Government-Business Relationship: Two-Way Expectations and Communication (42 min.)
A Moderated Panel Discussion
Richard Knox (moderator), R. James Caverly, John Clerici, Jeffrey Levi, Stewart Simonson

The Healthcare System During a Pandemic (25 min.)
A Moderated Panel Discussion
Richard Knox (moderator), Noel Harvey, Doug Quarry, Dorothy Teeter

Communicating the Risk of Pandemic Influenza to Employees, Customers, Investors, Suppliers and Everybody Else (53 min.)
Peter Sandman, PhD
Risk Communication Consultant
Princeton, NJ

Cross-Business Sector Discussion of Pandemic-Related Issues and Interdependencies (62 min.)
A Moderated Panel Discussion
Michael Osterholm (moderator), Ernest Blackwelder, Daniel Christman, Toby Merlin, Elizabeth Prescott, Doug Quarry, Steven Ross