FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Business Planning for Pandemic Influenza:
A National Summit
February 14 - 15, 2006
The next influenza pandemic represents a major threat to the health and well
being of the world’s population. The implications of a pandemic for businesses
are far reaching and potentially catastrophic. Traditional business risk
mitigation, security and disaster response plans for naturally occurring and
terrorism-related events are insufficient in preparing a business for pandemic
influenza.
Business
Planning for Pandemic Influenza: A National Summit will join leaders in
business and government and health experts in a timely and practical discussion
of how to effectively and efficiently prepare business for pandemic influenza.
Attendees included:
Business leaders with
responsibilities for corporate governance, operations, human resources, supply
chain management, legal, risk assessment and mitigation, strategic and crisis
planning, business continuity, security, communications, investor relations,
employee safety and employee travel management;
Government officials with
responsibilities for pandemic influenza preparedness, private-sector
infrastructure protection, international and national commerce and
transportation; Participants included Health and Human Services Secretary,
Homeland Security, and the Center for Disease Control.
Business-related organization officials
with responsibilities for providing leadership and consultation to
private-sector efforts for pandemic influenza and business continuity planning
and for working with government agencies to assure support for effective
business continuity planning and stockpiling of products or raw materials
critical to pandemic response.
Objectives:
- Identify
the critical risk assessment and mitigation, public policy, legal,
supply chain and human resource elements of comprehensive planning for
business continuity in the event of an influenza pandemic.
- Provide
business leaders with practical information needed to develop effective
and timely corporate pandemic influenza plans.
- Identify
the role that businesses should play in the development of federal,
state, regional and local government pandemic influenza preparedness
plans.
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Stimulate cross-business sector discussion of pandemic-related issues,
interrelationships, and interdependencies of the business community.
- Provide
the business community with current and comprehensive scientific
information needed for pandemic influenza business continuity planning.
Hosted
by the
Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy,
University of Minnesota
Co-sponsored by the
U.S. Chamber of Commerce,
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce
For More Information Contact:
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 Future Health
Solutions, LLC
52 Riverview Road,
Glastonbury, CT 06033
(860) 368-2435 |
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