Track 2: Enhancing Use of Medical Countermeasures and Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions

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QH51 - CANCELED: Advancing Medical Countermeasure Readiness Across the Nation

Speaker(s)

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  Christine Kosmos, BSN, MS

  Division Director, Division of State and Local Readiness, OPHPR
  CDC

Moderator(s)

• MD

  Mark Davis, D.O.FACOS, FACS, RPVI

  Program Services Branch Chief
  Centers for Disease Control

The purpose of the medical countermeasure operational readiness review is to assess, evaluate, and improve state and local operational readiness for a large medical countermeasure response. Operational readiness is demonstrated through exercises or real world incidents; progress and gap elements are used to enhance a medical countermeasure response.