Public Health and Disasters Conference 2024
OVERVIEW
Description:
Public Health and Disasters is an annual, multidisciplinary national conference that brings together professionals from public health, health care, emergency management and other disciplines involved in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from public health emergencies. The conference includes sessions that will be of interest for PHEP Coordinators; emergency planners, epidemiologists, environmental health specialists, and healthcare emergency managers. This year's conference is co-sponsored by the University of Utah Division of Public Health, in collaboration with the Salt Lake County Health Department and the Utah Department of Health and Human Services .
The conference is held at the Viridian Events Center in West Jordan, Utah.
Length: 2 Days
Target Audience:
Public Health Preparedness
Epidemiologists
Environmental Health Specialists
Health Educators
Public Health Officials
Emergency Managers
More Info:
Early Bird Registration before August 1, 2024 is $300; Regular Registration is $375.
If you wish to register multiple people from a single organization, please email a list of attendees with contact information to:
austin.layton@utah.edu
Presenters:
Opening Keynote Speaker
Ambika Bumb, PhD
Deputy Executive Director
Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense
An entrepreneur with background in nanomedicine, Dr. Ambika Bumb’s professional
path has bridged academia, industry, and government. She served as President Biden’s
Deputy Executive Director of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and
Technology (PCAST), the sole body of advisors from outside the federal government
charged with making recommendations to the President and Vice President on policy
affecting science and technology, as well as on matters involving scientific and
technological information that is needed to inform public policy relating to the economy,
public health, worker empowerment, education, energy, the environment, security, racial
equity, and other topics. She previously was the Health, Science, and Technology
Advisor for Department of State’s Crisis Management and Strategy within the Office of
the Secretary where while working on the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Bumb and her team
were awarded the Distinguished Honor Award for exceptionally outstanding service or
achievements of marked national or international significance. The Senate unanimously
passed the bipartisan Resolution 567 commending the efforts of her team in bringing
home more than 100,000 citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic, the largest
repatriation effort in U.S. history. During the rise of the pandemic, she was an advisor
for HelpwithCOVID, a grassroots clearing house that matched 17,300+ community
volunteers with 850+ projects focused on providing COIVD relief.
Dr. Bumb has served in the roles of Board Member for the International Biomedical
Research Alliance, Strategic Advisor to the Energy Sciences Area of Lawrence
Berkeley National Lab, and CEO of the biotech Bikanta. She graduated from Georgia
Tech with a B.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering and a Minor in Economics, while being
recognized with the Helen E. Grenga Outstanding Woman Engineer and E. Jo Baker
President’s Scholar Awards. She then obtained her doctorate in medical engineering
from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-Oxford Program while also on the
prestigious Marshall Scholarship and followed that up with two post-doctoral fellowships
at the National Cancer Institute and National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. The NIH
recognized her post-doctoral work with the Orloff Technical Advance Award as a
“platform” technology with implications that will broadly advance medicine on multiple
fronts. Her work has led to 16 patents and the spinout of the biotech Bikanta that used
nanodiamonds to allow academics and doctors to study and address disease like
cancer at the cellular level. She has received much recognition for excellence in
engineering and named as one of 40 under 40 influential Bay Area business leaders. An
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow, Dr. Bumb has
also been involved in science outreach/education and national policy initiatives, such as
the National Nanotech Initiative, Nano Task Force, guest writing for Techcrunch, and
Cancer Moonshot Initiative.
https://biodefensecommission.org/teams/ambika-bumb-phd/
Closing Keynote Speaker
Judith Mitrani-Reiser, PhD
Associate Chief of the Materials and Structural Systems Division
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Dr. Judith Mitrani-Reiser is the Associate Chief of the Materials and Structural Systems
Division (Engineering Laboratory) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST). The Division includes four research groups: Community Resilience, Earthquake
Engineering, Structures, and Infrastructure Materials. The Division also houses three
statutory programs: National Construction Safety Team (NCST), National Earthquake
Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP), and the National Windstorm Impact Reduction
Program (NWIRP). Mitrani-Reiser provides leadership in the development and
coordination of statutory processes for making buildings safer as authorized by various
statutes, including the NCST, NWIR, and NEHR Acts. She manages and provides
oversight on building failure investigations and coordinates work with other Federal
agencies to reduce losses in the United States from disasters and failures of our built
environment.
Mitrani-Reiser is a member of the National Construction Safety Team for the Technical
Investigation of Hurricane Maria’s Impacts on Puerto Rico and serves as the leader of
the NCST project focused on characterizing the technical conditions associated with
deaths and injuries. The objective of this project is to better understand how damaged
buildings and supporting infrastructure played a role in the injuries and deaths
associated with Hurricane Maria. In order to recommend changes to or the
establishment of evacuation and emergency response procedures and for
improvements to building standards, codes, and practice, scientifically rigorous methods
are required for: (1) attributing morbidity and mortality to windstorms (directly and
indirectly), (2) examining the health impact associated with building and building system
failures in windstorms, and (3) developing a process to integrate epidemiology and
engineering methodologies and tools that better determine the risk factors of and predict
life loss due to failures in the built environment.
Prior to accepting her new position, Mitrani-Reiser served as the Director of the
Disasters and Failure Studies Program (Engineering Laboratory) at NIST. As DFS
Director, she led a multidisciplinary staff responsible for conducting fact-finding
investigations focused on: building and infrastructure failures; successful building and
infrastructure performance; evacuation and emergency response systems; and disaster
recovery and community resilience. Mitrani-Reiser earned her B.S. from the University
of Florida, M.S. from the University of California at Berkeley, and Ph.D. from the
California Institute of Technology. Mitrani-Reiser is currently a member and a Director of
the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), a member of the Executive
Committee and Expert Panel of CROSS-US (a confidential reporting system established
to capture and share lessons learned from structural safety issues), and a member of
FEMA’s Nationwide Building Code Losses Avoided Study Independent Review Panel.
She is also a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), where she
co-founded SEI’s Committee on Multi-Hazard Mitigation.
https://www.nist.gov/people/judith-mitrani-reiser
LOCATION AND DIRECTIONS
Start: Thursday, October 10, 2024 8:00 AM
End: Friday, October 11, 2024 5:00 PM
Location:
Viridian Event Center
8030 S 1825 W West Jordan, Utah 84088
Map: https://www.google.com/maps/place//@40.6052621,-111.9446255,17z?entry=ttu
PAYMENT INFORMATION
Payment Instructions:
Conference Fee is $300 on or before August 1, 2024
Conference Fee is $375 beginning August 2, 2024
Conference Fee is $100 anytime for students with submission of program director letter (stating full-time student status) and willingness to volunteer during the conference.
After registering please pay for your registration using the linked University of Utah payment system.
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