A Framework for Assessing Mortality and Morbidity After Large-Scale Disasters (2020)

Chapter: Appendix B: Public Workshop Agendas

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Appendix B

Public Workshop Agendas

First Committee Meeting
May 28, 2019

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Keck Center, Room 103

1:00 p.m. Welcome to the Open Session
Ellen MacKenzie, Committee Chair
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
1:10 p.m. Presentations and Discussion on the Scope and Context of Study Charge
(20 minutes of opening remarks followed by a 45-minute question-and-answer period)
Alex Amparo
Assistant Administrator, National Preparedness Directorate
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Anthony Macintyre
Senior Medical Advisor, Department of Homeland Security Office of Health Affairs
Medical Liaison Officer, Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Justin Pelletier
Legislative Director, Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez (NY-07)
2:15 p.m. Assessing Mortality After Disaster—Hurricane Maria Case Study
  • Provide the background and context for your study of mortality following Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.
  • Discuss the main considerations for selecting the study design and the major challenges associated with its implementation.
  • Identify lessons learned for the future in terms of quantifying mortality and serious morbidity following large-scale disasters.
    (20 minutes of opening remarks followed by a 55-minute question-and-answer period)
Lynn Goldman
Dean, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University
Caroline Buckee
Associate Professor, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
3:30 p.m. ADJOURN

Second Committee Meeting
DAY 1: August 29, 2019
OPEN SESSION

9:00 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks
Ellen MacKenzie, Committee Chair, Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public Health
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SESSION 1: HURRICANE MARIA IN PUERTO RICO—CASE STUDY

90 minutes (5 minutes for opening remarks followed by moderated discussion and Q&A)

9:15–10:45 a.m. Moderator: Maureen Lichtveld, Committee Member, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Panelists:
  • Francisco Murphy Rivera, Physician, Adjuntas, Puerto Rico
  • José Cordero, Department Head, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Georgia
  • Maria M. Juiz Gallego, Supervisor of the Division of Quality Assurance, Demographic Registry of Puerto Rico
  • Judith Mitrani-Reiser, Director of the Disaster and Failure Studies Program, National Institute of Standards and Technology
10:45–11:00 a.m. BREAK

SESSION 2: FLORIDA SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING POST-DISASTER MORTALITY AND SIGNIFICANT MORBIDITY—CASE STUDY

90 minutes (5 minutes for opening remarks followed by moderated discussion and Q&A)

11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Moderator: Charles Rothwell, Committee Member, National Center for Health Statistics (retired)
Panelists:
  • Carina Blackmore, State Epidemiologist and Director, Division of Disease Control and Health Protection, Florida Department of Health
  • Kenneth Jones, State Registrar, Florida Department of Health
  • Stephen Nelson, District 10 Medical Examiner and Chairman of the Florida Medical Examiners Commission
  • Sandon Speedling, Health Officer, Florida Department of Health
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12:30 p.m. LUNCH

SESSION 3: CURRENT CAPABILITIES IN ASSESSING AND USING MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY DATA IN REAL TIME DURING A LARGE-SCALE DISASTER

90 minutes (5 minutes for opening remarks followed by moderated discussion and Q&A)

1:15–2:45 p.m. Moderator: Sue Anne Bell, Committee Member, University of Michigan School of Nursing
Panelists:
  • Tara Das, State Registrar, Texas Department of State Health Services
  • Edward Kilbane, Physician–Forensic Pathologist, National Disaster Medical System
  • Mac McClendon, Director of Public Health Preparedness and Response, Harris County Public Health
  • Rebecca Noe, Epidemiologist, Capacity Building Branch, Center for Preparedness and Response, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2:45–3:00 p.m. BREAK

SESSION 4: CURRENT CAPABILITIES IN ASSESSING AND USING MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY DATA DURING THE INTER-DISASTER PERIOD

90 minutes (5 minutes for opening remarks followed by moderated discussion and Q&A)

3:00–4:30 p.m. Moderator: W. Craig Vanderwagen, Committee Member, East West Protection, LLC
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Panelists:
  • Dee Ann Bagwell, Policy and Planning Director, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
  • Carla Britton, Senior Epidemiologist, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium
  • Devin George, State Registrar, Louisiana Department of Health
  • Amy Davidow, Associate Professor, Rutgers School of Public Health
  • Chesley Richards, Deputy Director for Public Health Science and Surveillance, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
4:30 p.m. ADJOURN Open Session

DAY 2: August 30, 2019
OPEN SESSION

8:30 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks
Ellen MacKenzie, Committee Chair, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

SESSION 5: LOOKING FORWARD—BEST PRACTICES AND TOOLS FOR ASSESSING AND USING MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY DATA DURING A LARGE-SCALE DISASTER IN REAL TIME

90 minutes (5 minutes for opening remarks followed by moderated discussion and Q&A)

8:45–10:15 a.m. Moderator: Richard Serino, Committee Member, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Panelists:
  • Tegan Boehmer, Chief, Health Studies Section, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Kelly Baker, Registrar, Vital Records, Oklahoma State Department of Health
  • Frank DePaolo, Deputy Commissioner for Forensic Operations, City of New York
10:15–10:30 a.m. BREAK
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SESSION 6: LOOKING FORWARD—BEST PRACTICES AND TOOLS FOR ASSESSING AND USING MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY DATA DURING THE INTER-DISASTER PERIOD

90 minutes (5 minutes for opening remarks followed by moderated discussion and Q&A)

10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Moderator: Elizabeth Frankenberg, Committee Member, University of North Carolina
Panelists:
  • Steven Schwartz, Director, Division of Vital Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Umair Shah, Director, Harris County Public Health
  • Skip Skivington, Vice President of Health Care Continuity Management and Support Services, Kaiser Permanente
  • Kevin Yeskey, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response

PUBLIC COMMENT
30-minute session

12:00–12:30 p.m. Moderator: Ellen MacKenzie, Committee Chair, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  • Members of the public are invited to sign up to provide comments on the workshop topic (3 minutes each)
12:30 p.m. ADJOURN Open Session
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Third Committee Meeting
DAY 1: October 7, 2019
OPEN SESSION

SESSION 1: COMMITTEE BREAKFAST

9:00–10:00 a.m. Moderator: Ellen Mackenzie, Committee Chair, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Panelist: Sacramento County Coroner Kimberly Gin will join the committee breakfast to discuss her office’s work during the Camp Fire in Paradise.
10:00 a.m. ADJOURN and DEPART for Paradise

SESSION 2: PARADISE TOWN HALL

1:00–2:30 p.m. Moderator: Ellen Mackenzie, Committee Chair, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Panelists: Various representatives from the fire department, law enforcement, health care providers and administrators, civil leaders, town hall staff, and key community members will come to discuss their experiences during the Camp Fire in Paradise.
2:45 p.m. ADJOURN and DEPART for Butte County

SESSION 3: BUTTE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT

3:15–4:45 p.m. Moderator: Ellen Mackenzie, Committee Chair, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Panelists: Various representatives from the fire department, law enforcement, health care providers and administrators, civil leaders, town hall staff, and key community members will come to discuss their experiences during the Camp Fire in Paradise.
5:00 p.m. ADJOURN and DEPART for Sacramento
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Webinar: Methodological Considerations for the Estimation of Disaster-Related Morbidity and Mortality at a Population Level

Tuesday, February 11, 2020
2:30–4:30 p.m. ET

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Best Practices for Assessing Mortality and Significant Morbidity Following Large-Scale Disasters is hosting this webinar as part of the committee’s broader effort to learn from the perspectives of researchers who are using a variety of analytical approaches to estimate population size and disaster impact on human health. The committee’s Statement of Task can be found on the last page of this agenda. The committee is specifically interested in learning more about the following:

  1. Generalizing from your experience with custom analyses of individual disasters, what best practices or standards may exist for estimating disaster-related mortality and morbidity across different disaster types, sizes, and locations?
  2. Experiences with the challenge of measuring disaster exposure and selecting methodological approaches for addressing issues like in- and out-migration.
  3. Perspectives on using existing federal surveys (barriers, necessary data items, etc.) in such studies, as well as the essential role of spot, custom survey data collection.
  4. Potential roles that researchers can play to support state and local stakeholders in analyzing morbidity and mortality data.
  5. Recommendations on what is needed (resources, tools, partnerships, etc.) to develop more accurate and timely estimates of disaster impact.
2:30 p.m. Welcome and Panel 1 Introduction
Elizabeth Frankenberg, Carolina Population Center, Committee Member
2:40 p.m. Panel 1: Survey-Based Methods for Assessing Mortality and Morbidity
Rafael Irizarry, Harvard University
Jessica Ho, University of Southern California
3:00 p.m. Discussion with Committee
3:30 p.m. Panel 2 Introduction
H. Russell Bernard, Arizona State University, Committee Member
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3:40 p.m. Panel 2: Methods for Estimating Hard-to-Count Populations
Adrian Raftery, University of Washington
Tyler McCormick, University of Washington
4:00 p.m. Discussion with Committee
4:30 p.m. Adjourn Webinar

Webinar: Methodological Considerations for Estimating Excess Mortality and Morbidity

Tuesday, February 18, 2020
2:30–4:00 p.m. ET

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Best Practices for Assessing Mortality and Significant Morbidity Following Large-Scale Disasters is hosting this webinar as part of the committee’s broader effort to learn from the perspectives of researchers who are using excess mortality to assess disaster impact. The committee’s Statement of Task can be found on the last page of this agenda. Rather than the findings from the research, the committee is specifically interested in learning more about the methodological challenges researchers face in conducting such research and how these challenges can be addressed, including:

  1. Critical assumptions that must be made and what is needed to make better informed assumptions.
  2. The identification of accurate baseline data and coping with a lack of baseline data.
  3. The selection of exposed and comparison populations across different disaster contexts, determinations of which outcomes to measure (including causes of death and morbidity), when to measure them, and for how long.
  4. Selection of statistical methods when using large databases that lead to more precise estimates.
  5. Addressing privacy and confidentiality concerns and other barriers to data sharing and use.
  6. Potential roles that researchers can play to support state and local stakeholders and federal policy makers in analyzing morbidity and mortality data.
  7. Recommendations on what is needed (resources, tools, partnerships, etc.) to develop more accurate and timely estimates of disaster impact.
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2:30 p.m. Welcome and Panel Introduction
Michael Stoto, Georgetown University, Committee Member
Sue Anne Bell, University of Michigan, Committee Member
2:40 p.m. Panel Presentations
Scott Zeger, Johns Hopkins University
Troy Quast, University of South Florida
3:00 p.m. Discussion with Committee
4:30 p.m. Adjourn Webinar
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