ASPR Health Care Readiness Programs Webinars Archive

Wednesday, November 9, 2022

During this webinar, Dr. Vikram Mukherjee and Shelly Schwedhelm from the National Emerging Special Pathogen Training and Education Center (NETEC) provided an update on the National Special Pathogen System, or NSPS, and their readiness posture for the current Ebola Outbreak in Uganda. Afterwards, Dr. Meg Sullivan and Dr. Michael Anderson shared an update on the current pediatric surge across the US and discussed pediatric surge challenges and resource needs recipients are currently facing.

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Wednesday, August 8, 2022

During the webinar Shayne Brannman, Program Director of ASPR TRACIE, gave an update of recent and upcoming resources. Dr. Ron Miller, Senior Advisor of the Office of Resource Management, provided an update to the U.S. Stockpiling Plan Project. CDR Eva McLanahan, Senior Health Advisor and ASPR liaison to the CDC, gave an update on the Monkeypox Response efforts.

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Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Audrey Mazurek from ASPR TRACIE provided an overview of recently published and upcoming ASPR TRACIE resources. Dr. Richard C. Hunt, Senior Medical Advisor of the National Healthcare Preparedness Branch provided an update to the ASPR Healthcare Preparedness and Response Capabilities document.

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Tuesday, February 8, 2022

During this meeting, we heard from the ASPR TRACIE Program Director, Shayne Brannman, who gave an overview of ASPR TRACIE’s recent resources. Afterwards, Dr. Richard C. Hunt, Senior Medical Advisor of the National Healthcare Preparedness Branch provided an introduction to the ASPR Healthcare Preparedness and Response Capabilities update.

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Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Brittney Seiler provided a COVID-19 hospital data transition update, followed by a presentation from Rachel Lehman, ASPR TRACIE Acting Director highlighting released and upcoming ASPR TRACIE resources. Afterwards, Jennifer Hannah and the Data and Evaluation Support Team shared early data insights from the health care coalition pediatric surge questionnaire.

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Wednesday, September 14, 2022

During this meeting, Jennifer Hannah provided budget period announcements, Lisa Dillard from the Strategic National Stockpile provided an update on the monkeypox response, and Dave Csernak presented on the Medical Response and Surge Exercise Real-World Tool.

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Wednesday, July 13, 2022

During this Joint Business Meeting, both HPP and PHEP leadership presented on programmatic updates, recipient success stories, and funding information for recipients.

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Wednesday, June 8, 2022

Shayne Brannman, ASPR TRACIE Program Director, presented recently released and upcoming ASPR TRACIE resources. Lisa Dillard, Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) Acting Deputy Director, gave an overview of the SNS history, purpose, capabilities, responses through COVID-19 and Monkeypox, and a summary of their current initiatives.

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Tuesday, March 9, 2022

Kacey Wulff, the Chief of Staff and Deputy Assistant Secretary of ASPR, and Meg Sullivan, the Acting Chief Medical Officer of ASPR, provided opening remarks; Jennifer Hannah provided several ASPR programmatic updates; Michael Fucci, the Management Analyst of the Policy Division Office of Strategy, Policy, Planning, and Requirements (SPPR) of ASPR provided an overview of the National Health Security Strategy Federal Register Notice Public Comment Period; Kate Gorbach from Data and Evaluation Support for the National Health Care Preparedness Programs Branch provided a summary of the FY 2020 end-of-year data analysis; Jennifer Hannah concluded the webinar with closing remarks.

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Tuesday, February 8, 2022

During this meeting, we heard from the ASPR TRACIE Program Director, Shayne Brannman, who gave an overview of ASPR TRACIE’s recent resources. Afterwards, Dr. Richard C. Hunt, Senior Medical Advisor of the National Healthcare Preparedness Branch provided an introduction to the ASPR Healthcare Preparedness and Response Capabilities update.

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Thursday, May 5, 2022

During this meeting, we reviewed and answered recipient questions on the FY2022/Budget Period 4 Continuation Application Instructions and Application Kit, which are available in the Grants Management Module (GMM) in GrantSolutions.

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Thursday, December 15, 2022

During this meeting, Rachel Lehman, Acting Director of ASPR Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange (TRACIE), shared information on current and upcoming TRACIE resources. Afterwards, Dr. Richard Hunt led an interactive discussion on the health care preparedness and response capabilities update and shared what will be featured in each capability. This was followed by an open discussion.  

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Thursday, September 22, 20222

During this meeting, Lisa Dillard, Acting Deputy Director for the Strategic National Stockpile, provided an overview of the Strategic National Stockpile, including recent updates regarding its Monkeypox efforts. Afterwards, Kara Amann-Kale, Missouri’s Director of Hospital Preparedness Programs, presented on how the Missouri Hospital Association used COVID-19 lessons learned to inform program development.

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Thursday, July 21, 2022

During this meeting, Shayne Brannman and Dr. John Hick provided an update and demonstration of the new Disaster Available Supplies in Hospitals (DASH) tool. Afterwards, Captain Duane Wagner, the Region 5 Field Project Officer, led this month’s Hospital Association regional panel where panelists from Michigan, Minnesota, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin shared experiences, challenges, and lessons learned regarding pediatric surge during COVID-19.

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Thursday, June 20, 2022

During this meeting, we heard from Ericka Thomas from ASPR’s Office of Strategy, Policy, Planning, and Requirements (SPPR), who provided an overview of the Hospital Association Implementation Guidance. The overview included reporting updates as well as submission instructions.

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Thursday, April 21, 2022

During this meeting, Shayne Brannman provided an overview of new and upcoming ASPR TRACIE resources. Afterwards, Dave Csernak, the Region 10 Field Project Officer, lead the first of our monthly Hospital Association regional panels where panelists from Washington, Idaho, and Oregon shared experiences, challenges, and lessons learned regarding load balancing efforts during COVID-19.

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Thursday, March 17, 2022

During this meeting, we heard from Ericka Thomas, from ASPR’s Office of Strategy, Policy, Planning, and Requirements (SPPR) who provided a brief update on the Hospital Association Year 2, End of Year Data Collection. Afterwards, Lyle Moore from the Colorado Hospital Association presented an update on the success of the Colorado Combined Hospital Transfer Center (CHTC).

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Thursday, January 20, 2022

During this meeting, we heard from Mary Gallagher, the Executive Vice President and Chief of Staff of the Ohio Hospital Association, who touched on the impact of ASPR funding in Ohio during COVID-19. Afterwards, Shayne Brannman provided an overview of the surge and staffing resources that are now available on ASPR TRACIE’s website.

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