Public Health Preparedness Laws and Policies: Where Do We Go after Pandemic 2009 H1N1 Influenza?

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See H1N1 Summary, supra note 1.

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Public Law 109–417: Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act. (120 STAT 2831; Date: 12/19/2006) [hereinafter PAHPA].

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Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, Assessing Policy Barriers to Effective Public Health Response in the H1N1 Pandemic, June 2010, available at <http://www.astho.org/Display/AssetDisplayaspx?id=4933> (last visited December 3, 2010) [hereinafter ASTHO Report].

National Association of County and City Health Officials. H1N1 Policy Workshop Report, May 4–5, 2010, available at <http://www.naccho.org/topics/H1N1/upload/NACCHO-WORK-SHOP-REPORT-IN-TEMPLATE-with-chart.pdf> [hereinafter NACCHO Report].

See ASTHO Report, supra note 9.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response, “Funding Guidance and Technical Assistance to States,” available at <http://www.bt.cdc.gov/cdcpreparedness/coopagreement/index.asp> (last visited December 3, 2010).

Fiscal Year 2012 Budget Guidance, White House Office of Management and Budget Memorandum from Peter Orzag to the Heads of Departments and Agencies, June 8, 2010, available at <http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/assets/memoranda_2010/m10–19.pdf> (last visited December 3, 2010).

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Public health preparedness: Response capacity improving, but much remains to be accomplished. GAO Testimony Statement of Janet Heinrich before the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, 108th Cong., February 12, 2004, available at <http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d04458t.pdf> (last visited December 3, 2010).

See PAHPA, supra note 7.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, “National Health Security Strategy,” December 2009, available at <http://www.phe.gov/Preparedness/planning/authority/nhss/strategy/Pages/default.aspx> (last visited December 3, 2010).

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