Public Health and Emergency Management: CRS Experts

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Public Health and Emergency PreparednessManagement: CRS Experts

~~January 7, 2015~~March 9, 2017 (R40904)

The following table ~~provides access to~~lists names and contact information for CRS experts on policy concerns ~~relating to~~involving public health and emergency ~~preparedness~~management. Policy areas identified include

~~public~~Public health system preparedness and response;
~~medical~~Medical and health care system preparedness and response;
~~legal~~Legal issues in public health and medical preparedness and response;

~~medical countermeasures;~~

~~homeland~~Homeland security research and development; and
~~health~~Health effects of threat agents.

Stafford Act assistance and role of FEMA

Legislative Issues	Name/Title	Phone	~~E-mail~~ Email
Public health system preparedness and response
General	[author name scrubbed] Specialist in Public Health and Epidemiology	[phone number scrubbed]	[email address scrubbed]
	[author name scrubbed] Specialist in Health Policy	[phone number scrubbed]	[email address scrubbed]
Mental and behavioral health	[author name scrubbed] Analyst in Health Policy	[phone number scrubbed]	[email address scrubbed]
Food safety / food defense	[author name scrubbed] Specialist in Agricultural Policy	[phone number scrubbed]	[email address scrubbed]
	Joel Greene Analyst in Agricultural Policy	[phone number scrubbed]	[email address scrubbed]
	[author name scrubbed] Specialist in Public Health and Epidemiology	[phone number scrubbed]	[email address scrubbed]
Workforce: responder health and safety, injury compensation	Scott Szymendera Analyst in Disability Policy	[phone number scrubbed]	[email address scrubbed]
Medical and health care system preparedness and response
General	[author name scrubbed] Specialist in Public Health and Epidemiology	[phone number scrubbed]	[email address scrubbed]
Health care financing in disaster response	[author name scrubbed] Specialist in Public Health and Epidemiology	[phone number scrubbed]	[email address scrubbed]
Mental and behavioral health	[author name scrubbed] Analyst in Health Policy	[phone number scrubbed]	[email address scrubbed]
Medical countermeasures / Project BioShield / BARDA	[author name scrubbed] Specialist in Science and Technology Policy	[phone number scrubbed]	[email address scrubbed]	[author name scrubbed] Analyst in Emergency Management Policy	[phone number scrubbed]	[email address scrubbed]
	[author name scrubbed] Analyst in American National Government	[phone number scrubbed]	[email address scrubbed]
	[author name scrubbed] Analyst in Emergency Management and Homeland Security Policy	[phone number scrubbed]	[email address scrubbed]
DOD incident response and civil support	[author name scrubbed] Specialist in Military Manpower Policy	[phone number scrubbed]	[email address scrubbed]
VA preparedness and response	Sidath Panangala Specialist in Veterans Policy	[phone number scrubbed]	[email address scrubbed]
Global health, international preparedness	[author name scrubbed] Specialist in Global Health	[phone number scrubbed]	[email address scrubbed]
Legal issues in public health and medical preparedness and response
General	[author name scrubbed] Legislative Attorney	[phone number scrubbed]	[email address scrubbed]
Isolation and quarantine, mandatory vaccination	[author name scrubbed] Legislative Attorney	[phone number scrubbed]	[email address scrubbed]
Emergency powers and the Stafford Act	[author name scrubbed] Legislative Attorney	[phone number scrubbed]	[email address scrubbed]
	[author name scrubbed] Legislative Attorney	[phone number scrubbed]	[email address scrubbed]
Food safety	~~[author name scrubbed]~~ Kathryn B. ArmstrongLegislative Attorney	[phone number scrubbed]	[email address scrubbed]
Medical countermeasures: regulation, liability and compensation	[author name scrubbed] Legislative Attorney	[phone number scrubbed]	[email address scrubbed]
Workforce: civil liability	~~Vivian Chu~~ ~~Legislative Attorney~~	[phone number scrubbed]	[email address scrubbed]
~~Medical countermeasures~~
Project BioShield/BARDA	~~[author name scrubbed]~~ ~~Specialist in Science and Technology Policy~~	[phone number scrubbed]	[email address scrubbed]
Regulation of drugs	~~[author name scrubbed]~~ ~~Specialist in Drug Safety and Effectiveness~~	[phone number scrubbed]	[email address scrubbed]
Regulation of vaccines	~~[author name scrubbed]~~ ~~Specialist in Biomedical Policy~~ [author name scrubbed]Legislative Attorney	[phone number scrubbed]	[email address scrubbed]
Homeland security research and development
Biological and chemical defense research / DHS	[author name scrubbed] Specialist in Science and Technology Policy	[phone number scrubbed]	[email address scrubbed]
	~~[author name scrubbed]~~ ~~Specialist in Science and Technology Policy~~	[phone number scrubbed]	[email address scrubbed]
Biomedical research / NIH	[author name scrubbed] Specialist in Biomedical Policy	[phone number scrubbed]	[email address scrubbed]
Health effects of threat agents
Pandemic influenza	[author name scrubbed] Specialist in Public Health and Epidemiology	[phone number scrubbed]	[email address scrubbed]
	~~[author name scrubbed]~~ ~~Specialist in Health Policy~~	[phone number scrubbed]	[email address scrubbed]
Biological agents	~~[author name scrubbed]~~ ~~Specialist in Public Health and Epidemiology~~	[phone number scrubbed]	[email address scrubbed]
	~~[author name scrubbed]~~ ~~Specialist in Science and Technology Policy~~	~~[phone number scrubbed]~~ Biological agents [author name scrubbed]Specialist in Public Health and Epidemiology [phone number scrubbed]	[email address scrubbed]
	[author name scrubbed] Specialist in Science and Technology Policy	[phone number scrubbed]	[email address scrubbed]
Chemical agents	[author name scrubbed] Specialist in Science and Technology Policy	[phone number scrubbed]	[email address scrubbed]
	~~[author name scrubbed]~~ ~~Specialist in Science and Technology Policy~~	[phone number scrubbed]	[email address scrubbed]
Radiation health effects	[author name scrubbed] Specialist in Health Policy	[phone number scrubbed]	[email address scrubbed]
Chemicals in commerce	[author name scrubbed] Analyst in Environmental Policy	[phone number scrubbed]	[email address scrubbed]

~~Experts List Coordinator~~

Author Contact Information

[author name scrubbed], Coordinator, Specialist in Public Health and Epidemiology ([email address scrubbed], [phone number scrubbed])