The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will convene a planning committee to develop a workshop to understand the successes, challenges, and lessons learned from implementation of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s Contingency Rule. The specific objectives of the workshop are to:

• Understand commonly used definitions of evolving terms and phrases in the rule such as “reasonably be anticipated and expected to be detrimental to good health and well-being”;
• Compare implementation of the new Contingency Rule across multiple research institution types;
• Discuss the effectiveness and retention rates of training programs conducted at various research institutions;
• Explore the effectiveness and outcomes of full-scale exercises that test the interactions with local, regional, federal agencies related to the Contingency Rule requirements;
• Discuss the use of active learning in preparedness training at the institutional and governmental levels (e.g., scenario-based learning);
• Explore implementation research related to contingency planning and personnel training;
• Discuss the roles and responsibilities of IACUCs, Environmental Health Service Programs, Emergency Management;
• Share experiences, challenges and successes in implementation of the Contingency Rule;
• Explore the need for further guidance, technical notes, and other similar types of documents to improve implementation of the Contingency Rule.

Key themes from the workshop will be summarized in a rapporteur-prepared Proceedings-in-Brief.