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Personal Protective Equipment and Personal Protective Technology Product Standardization for a Resilient Public Health Supply Chain: Proceedings of a Workshop (2023)

Chapter: Appendix A: Workshop Agenda

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Suggested Citation: "Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Personal Protective Equipment and Personal Protective Technology Product Standardization for a Resilient Public Health Supply Chain: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/27094.

Appendix A

Workshop Agenda

HEALTH AND MEDICINE DIVISION | BOARD ON HEALTH SCIENCES POLICY

PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT AND PERSONAL PROTECTIVE TECHNOLOGY PRODUCT STANDARDIZATION FOR A RESILIENT PUBLIC HEALTH SUPPLY CHAIN

Virtual Workshop

WORKSHOP AGENDA

March 1-2, 2023

10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. ET

Workshop Goal: This workshop will examine standards gaps related to personal protective equipment (PPE) and personal protective technology (PPT) and explore innovative approaches and technologies to update and streamline the U.S. standardization system for PPE and PPT in support of supply chain resiliency.

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Workshop Objectives: Workshop discussants and participants will have the opportunity to engage and exchange knowledge and ideas among key partners—including policy makers, manufacturers, users, and relevant technical contributors—and to facilitate discussion on opportunities to improve the effectiveness, safety, supply stability, and accessibility of PPE/PPT designed for use by workers and the public exposed to hazardous agents (e.g., wildfire smoke, infectious diseases, nuclear, chemical, or biological warfare) by:

Examining issues that arose during the COVID-19 pandemic associated with current product standards for PPT and PPE, with a focus on PPE sizing standards;
Exploring potential supply chain impacts associated with current product and technology standards, including those related to stockpiling of PPE and PPE sizing standards;
Discussing standards needs for workers and the public exposed to hazardous agents (e.g., sizing, fit testing), as well as opportunities, barriers, and potential solutions to addressing current PPE limitations;
Highlighting relevant intellectual property issues related to PPE standardization;
Considering how standards can improve the effectiveness of PPE without impeding innovation;
Considering how input received in response to past National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Federal Register Notices (FRNs) can inform standards for PPE and PPT.

DAY 1 – WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 2023

Session 1	Welcome and Overview of the Workshop
10:00am	Chair Welcome and Opening Remarks
10:00am	Linda Hawes Clever, Workshop Chair
10:10am	National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory (NPPTL) Opening Remarks
10:10am	Maryann D’Alessandro, Director, NPPTL
Session 2	Standards and a Resilient PPE/PPT Supply Chain
10:20am	Introduction
10:20am	Tener Veenema, Senior Scientist, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security

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	This panel will lay the foundation of the workshop by discussing the observations made in the report from the National Strategy for a Resilient Public Health Supply Chain Task Force on Product Standardization¹ and what it means to have a resilient supply chain. The session will walk through the process of setting standards along the PPE/PPT supply chain, from raw materials to design and manufacturing through to transportation and storage and distribution to users.
10:25am	Panel Presentations
	Tener Veenema, Panel Moderator
	Government Perspective
	Stuart Evenhaugen, Strategy and Policy Analyst, Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) Gordon Gillerman, Director, The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
	Supply Chain Perspective
	Özlem Ergun, Professor and Associate Chair, Northeastern University Committee Member of the National Academies Study on Resilient Medical Supply Chains
	Manufacture/Industry Perspective
	Dan Shipp, Consultant, International Safety Equipment Association (ISEA) (ret.)
10:50am	Panel Discussion / Q&A
10:50am	Tener Veenema, Panel Moderator
Session 3	PPE/PPT Supply Chain and Standards in COVID-19
11:20am	Introduction
	Jill Morgan, Critical Care Nurse, Emory University Hospital
	Participants will discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted all aspects of the PPE/PPT supply chain, from manufacturers all the way through to PPE/PPT users. The session will also note differences in standards and communication for PPE/PPT for workers vs the public.

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¹ May also be referred to as “The Product Standardization Task Force” or just “The Task Force.”

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11:25am	Panel Presentations
	Jill Morgan, Panel Moderator
	Manufacturing Perspective
	Nicole McCullough, Vice President of the Global Application Engineering and Regulatory for the Personal Safety Division, 3M
	Distribution Perspective
	Susan Gorman, Associate Director for Science, ASPR-Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) Cory Worden, Safety Advisor, Houston Health Department John Fleming, Public Health Preparedness Bureau Chief, Houston Health Department Sean Kice, SNS Coordinator, Tennessee Department of Health
	End User Perspective
	Daniel Gerard, President, International Association of EMS Chiefs (IAEMSC) Jennifer Kiger, Director of the COVID-19 Division, Houston/Harris County Public Health Department
11:50am	Panel Discussion / Q&A
11:50am	Jill Morgan, Panel Moderator
12:20pm	BREAK
Session 4	Standards and PPE Design
12:50pm	Introduction
	Stephanie Holm, Director, Western States Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit
	Assistant Clinical Professor, University of California San Francisco
	Public Health Medical Officer, Children’s Environmental Health Center, CA EPA
	This session is the first of a series that is aimed at discussing the PPE/PPT standards around specific components of the supply chain. Here, this panel is going to examine the standards impacting the design and manufacturing of PPE/PPT.

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12:55pm	Panel Presentations
	Stephanie Holm, Panel Moderator
	Design Standards - PPE for Occupational Use
	Jessica Tredinnick, Manager, 3M Global Standards Development Joe Worple, Senior Design Engineer, Milwaukee Tool
	Design Standards - PPE for Public Use
	Victoria Jaqua, Medical Community Lead, Open Source Medical Supplies (OSMS) Nicholas Smit, former Executive Director, American Mask Manufacturer’s Association (AMMA)
	Innovative PPE Design
	Jennifer Schneider, Professor and Chair of the Eugene H. Fram Applied Critical Thinking in Program, Rochester Institute of Technology Susan Sokolowski, Professor and Founding Director of the Sports Product Design Program, University of Oregon
1:20pm	Panel Discussion / Q&A
1:20pm	Stephanie Holm, Panel Moderator
Session 5	Standards and PPE Manufacturing Capacity
1:50pm	Introduction
	Michelle Feinberg, Owner & Creative Director, New York Embroidery Studio
	The next session in the series aimed at discussing the PPE/PPT standards around specific components of the supply chain will focus on discussing the standards around PPE/PPT manufacturers, specifically manufacturing capacity. Here, this panel is going to examine how standards can impact PPE/PPT manufacturers’ capacity, both as a means to facilitate increasing capacity and as a potential barrier.
1:55pm	Panel Presentations
	Michelle Feinberg, Panel Moderator
	Manufacturing Standards - PPE for Occupational Use
	Dan Glucksman, Public Affairs Director, International Safety Equipment Association (ISEA) Claudio Dente, President and CEO, Dentec

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	Manufacturing Standards - PPE for Public Use
	Brent Dillie, Managing Director, Premium-PPE
	Innovative PPE Manufacturing
	Paul Dillinger, Vice President and Head of Global Production, Levi Strauss & Co. Andrew Moy, Chief Executive Office and Board Member/Founder, Aegle
2:20pm	Panel Discussion / Q&A
2:20pm	Michelle Feinberg, Panel Moderator
Session 6	Day 1 Wrap-Up
2:50pm	Chair’s Reflection and Preview of Day 2
2:50pm	Linda Hawes Clever, Workshop Chair
3:00pm	ADJOURN DAY 1

DAY 2 – THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 2023

Session 7	Welcome and Recap of Day 1
10:00am	Chair Welcome and Opening Remarks
10:00am	Linda Hawes Clever, Workshop Chair
Session 8	Conformity, Certification, and Continued Product Performance
10:15am	Introduction
	Jill Morgan, Critical Care Nurse, Emory University Hospital
	The last session in the series aimed at discussing the PPE/PPT standards around specific components of the supply chain will review standards gaps related to conformity testing, certification, and maintaining the integrity of the product (e.g., storage, decontamination, reuse). Discussion will also occur around how conformity testing and certification processes differ by product type/use scenario.
10:20am	Panel Presentations
	Jill Morgan, Panel Moderator

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	Government Perspective
	Jon Szalajda, Deputy Director, NPPTL Gordon Gillerman, Director, Standards Coordination Office at NIST
	Academic Perspective
	Lisa Brosseau, Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago (ret.)
	Manufacturing/Industry Perspective
	Jeff Stull, President, International Personnel Protection, Inc.
	Market and Supply Chain Economics Perspective
	David Simchi-Levi, Professor of Engineering Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10:50am	Panel Discussion / Q&A
10:50am	Jill Morgan, Panel Moderator
Session 9	Marketing, Stockpiling, and Distribution
11:20am	Introduction
	Tinglong Dai, Professor, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
	Continuing our path along the supply chain, this session is aimed at discussing the standards around PPE/PPT marketing, stockpiling, and distribution. Here, this panel is going to examine how standards can impact the ability of different entities’ abilities to market, stockpile, and distribute PPE/PPT particularly in times of high demand.
11:25am	Panel Presentations
	Tinglong Dai, Moderator
	Purchasers Perspective
	Barbara DeBaun, Improvement Advisor, Cynosure Health Skip Skivington, Vice President of Health Care Continuity and Support Services, Kaiser Permanente

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	Government Perspective and Public Distribution Networks
	Chris Tang, Professor and Chair in Business Administration, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Anderson School of Management Colleen Miller, Deputy Branch Chief, Conformity Verification and Standards Development Branch, NPPTL Sean Kice, SNS Coordinator, Tennessee Department of Health
	Commercial Perspective and Private Distribution Networks
	Anne Miller, Executive Director, Project N95
11:50am	Panel Discussion / Q&A
11:50am	Tinglong Dai, Moderator
Session 10	Communication + Education
12:20pm	Introduction
	Amrita John, Critical Care & Infectious Disease Physician, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and Carolyn Sheridan, Founder & Executive Director, Ag Health and Safety Alliance
	The last stop on the supply chain is the user. This session is aimed at discussing the standards around communicating and educating those who use PPE/PPT. Here, this panel is going to examine how standards and guidance can differ and have different impacts on users in an occupational setting or members of the public.
12:25pm	Panel Presentations
	Amrita John and Carolyn Sheridan, Panel Moderators
	Underserved Worker Perspective
	Alexis Guild, Director of Health Policy and Programs, Farmworker Justice (FJ) Elizabeth Royal, Assistant Director for Healthcare Workforce Strategy, Service Employees International Union (SEIU)

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	Communication
	Andy Levison, Director for the Directorate of Standards and Guidance, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Sarah Coefield, Air Quality Specialist, Missoula City-County Health Department
12:50pm	Panel Discussion / Q&A
12:50pm	Amrita John and Carolyn Sheridan, Panel Moderators
1:20pm	BREAK
Session 11	Approaches to Prioritizing Standards Gap Filling
1:50pm	Introduction
	Tener Veenema, Senior Scientist, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
	This panel will bring the focus of the workshop full circle by reflecting on the standards gaps and issues raised throughout the previous session and how they tie into the observations made in the Product Standardization Task Force report. In a roundtable format, panelists will discuss ways to focus efforts on priority issues for PPE/PPT standards.
2:00pm	Panel Discussants
	Tener Veenema, Panel Moderator
	Participants
	Özlem Ergun, Professor and Associate Chair, Northeastern University Lisa Brosseau, Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago (ret.) Andrew Moy, Chief Executive Office and Board Member/Founder, Aegle Bonnie Rogers, Director and Associate Professor, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Stone Turn Consultants Sundaresan Jayaraman, Professor and Founding Director Kolon Center for Lifestyle Innovation, Georgia Institute of Technology Mark Shirley, Director of Integrated Resiliency Management, Sutter Health

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Session 12	Roundtable Discussion: A Cohesive and Complex Standards System for a Resilient Supply Chain
2:30pm	Introduction
	Linda Hawes Clever, Workshop Chair
	This final panel will close the workshop by discussing what it means to have a resilient PPE/PPT supply chain and how a systems approach to setting PPE/PPT standards can help protect the health and safety of workers and the public.
2:35pm	Panel Discussion
	Linda Hawes Clever, Panel Moderator
	Planning Committee Members
Session 13	Day 2 Wrap-Up (25 min)
3:30pm	Chair’s Reflection and Closing Remarks
3:30pm	Linda Hawes Clever, Workshop Chair
3:45pm	Final Words
3:45pm	Maryann D’Alessandro, Director, NPPTL
3:55pm	ADJOURN