H1N1 Flu Preparedness Links 

To help you better respond to the H1N1 flu situation or other potential pandemic, AHLA's Emergency Preparedness Affinity Group has prepared the following collection of useful links.

General Resources

• The Association of Health and Territorial Health Officials


• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


• CDC's Antiviral Use Interim Guidance


• CDC’s Clinical and Public Health Guidance for Swine Flu


• CDC/FDA: Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) for Tamiflu, Relenza, and swine flu diagnostic test


• CDC’s Guidance on Identifying and Caring for Swine Flu Patients


• CDC’s H1N1 Flu Page


• CDC’s Information for Child Care Providers


• CDC’s Preventing the Flu Fact Sheet


• CDC’s Public Health Law Program (swine flu legal preparedness)


• Centers for Law and the Public’s Health (Johns Hopkins & Georgetown): Legal preparedness info, including swine flu emergency declarations


• Clinicians’ Biosecurity Network (Center for Biosecurity)


• Department of Homeland Security (swine flu response)


• EEOC's ADA-Compliant Employer Preparedness For the H1N1 Flu Virus


• EEOC's Employment Discrimination and the 2009 H1N1 Flu Virus


• Emergency Liability Protection for Volunteer Entities (Gene Matthews, 2009)
  see also http://nciph.sph.unc.edu/law/index.htm


• Emergency Management Assistance Compact


• EMTALA Sanctions (1135) Waivers Article


• Food & Drug Administration


• FDA’s Press Release Authorizing Emergency Use of Influenza Medicines and Diagnostic Tests


• HHS’s Declaration of a Public Health Emergency for Swine Flu


• Homeland Security Council, National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza (Nov. 2005)


• Infectious Diseases Society of America


• Influenza 1918 (Public Broadcasting Services, 1999)


• Legal Triage during Public Health Emergencies (James Hodge, 2008) (very thorough background on public health emergency law)


• Pandemic Planning Toolkit (Roche)


• PREP Act Article


• School Closure Laws Article (James Hodge, 2009)
  see also http://www.liebertonline.com/toc/bsp/7/1


• U.S. Government’s Pandemic Flu Website


• WHO's Influenza A (H1N1) Page


• WHO’s International Health Regulations, Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response


• WHO’s Project on Addressing Ethical Issues in Pandemic Influenza Planning: Equitable Access to Therapeutic and Prophylactic Measurers (World Health Organization Draft Paper for Working Group One)


• WHO’s Statement by the Director-General


• World Map documenting reported swine flu cases (also features links to news articles regarding swine flu)

Pandemic Ethics

• WHO’s Addressing Ethics in Pandemic


• Ethics and Pandemics (blog)


• Indiana University Center for BioEthics Pandemic Influenza Portal


• Minnesota Pandemic Ethics Project


• "For the Good of Us All" - Preliminary Report from Minnesota Pandemic Ethics Project


• Santa Clara University Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

State Specific Resources

• Arizona


• Florida


• Indiana
  
• ISDH General Information on Pandemic Influenza


• Pandemic Flu Preparedness: Ethical Issues and Recommendations to the Indiana State Department of Health


• ISDH Pandemic Influenza Plan - State Health Commissioner Plan


• Indiana Pandemic Influenza Toolkits for different entity types (i.e. Business, Community, Health Clinic, State/Local)
• Illinois


• Kentucky


• Michigan


• Missouri


• Texas
  
• Department of State Health Services


• Governor declaration of Disaster for State of Texas
  
• Utah


• Wisconsin