Modernizing Global Health Security to Prevent, Detect, and Respond

Prior to joining the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) and serving the 2-year EIS residency in New Orleans, LA, Dr. McNabb PhD, MS, worked for 13 years at the Oklahoma State Health Department. Since 1993, most of his professional efforts have focused on supporting those in underdeveloped, underserved global settings. Before retirement from CDC in 2010, he served as Associate Director for Science; Public Health Informatics and Technology Program Office; Office for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services. From 2006 – 2008, he directed the Division of Integrated Surveillance Systems and Services, National Center for Public Health Informatics, CDC. He is Research Professor and Director of the King Abdullah Fellowship Program (http://kingabdullahfellowship.com) at Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health. Teaching two classes, GH 504 Effective Oral Presentations for Public Health Professionals and GH 592 Successful Scientific Writing for Public Health Professionals, he also teaches in a short-course format: Successful Scientific Writing and Effective Oral Communications and in the University of Michigan Graduate Summer Session. Having mentored 19 students through their M.P.H. or Ph.D., plus 14 fellows through the CDC Public Health Prevention Specialists program, he is jointly appointed in the Hubert Department of Global Health and Department of Epidemiology. He holds an appointment as Adjunct Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health and Health Informatics, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Promoted to Distinguished Consultant in 2005 and nominated for the 2005 CDC Charles C. Shepard Award, he completed the 2004 Senior Executive Services (SES) candidate development program and is certified by the Office of Personnel Management. Dr. McNabb serves on the Editorial Board, Epidemiology and Global Health and in private practice as a Board Member of Ascel Bio, LLC; Senior Consultant and Managing Partner, Public Health Practice, LLC (http://www.publichealthpractice.com); and Senior Consultant, Global Strategies, LLC (http://www.global-strategies.net). Affan T. Shaikh is a public health professional with interests in disease prevention and health systems strengthening. With over seven years of professional experience, Affan’s work engages multilateral stakeholders including inter- and intra- governmental organizations, academic intuitions, NGOs, and communities in building local public health capacities, improving health outcomes, and increasing access. He has worked on the ground across 22 different countries, and during the peak of the MERS-CoV outbreak in Saudi Arabia and following the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone. More recently he has supported the Africa CDC with their COVID-19 response through innovative public health applications. Through his work, Affan is driven to strengthen health systems using evidence-based research. He has had numerous teaching engagements with Emory University, the University of Michigan, and Columbia University, where he has taught courses on public health surveillance, oral communication, and scientific writing. He has successfully consulted with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, numerous Ministries of Health throughout Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia, and the World Health Organization. In addition to consulting, he serves as a Visiting Scientist for the National Academy of Sciences and as an International Board Member to the Saudi Arabia Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. Affan holds an MPH in International Health from Boston University and a BA in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles. Carol Haley, PhD, is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Rollins School of Public Health, Hubert Department of Global Health at Emory University. She has spent nearly 30 years working at the intersection of science and policy in various capacities in industry, government, and academia. Her experience includes, among others, positions at the Virginia Water Resources Research Center where she researched and wrote about legal, scientific, economic, and social aspects of issues concerning Virginia’s waters; and at the Center for Veterinary Medicine at the US Food and Drug Administration, first specializing in environmental impacts of animal drugs, and later, as the Center’s Deputy Associate Director of Policy and Regulations, developing animal drug policy. She has extensive experience in US regulatory affairs and policy, environmental policy, and freshwater ecology. Her volunteer activities include having served on the Board of Trustees of Randolph College and on the Vestry of the Church of the Holy Trinity in NYC. She received her doctorate in biology from Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, US.

1. Vision Guiding Modernization of Global Health Security

Section I International Regulatory Environment to Prevent, Detect, and Respond2. Ethics and Global Health Security3. National Interagency Collaboration for Public Health4. The imperative for global cooperation to prevent and control pandemics 5. International Legal Issues of National Sovereignty and Authority Impacting Global Health Security

Section II Global One Health to Address Pandemics - Ecological and Biological Challenges in the Dynamic Planet6. (Re-)emerging Viral Zoonotic Diseases at the Human-Animal-Environment Interface7. EEmergence and Dissemination of Antimicrobial Resistance at the Interface of Humans, Animals, and the Environment8. Toxic and Environmentally Ubiquitous Chemical Agents9. Global Climate Change Impacts on Vector Ecology and Vector-borne Diseases10. Assessment of Critical Gaps in Prevention, Control, and Response to Major Bacterial, Viral, and Protozoal Infectious Diseases at the Human, Animal, and Environmental Interface11. Urbanization, Human Societies and Pandemic Preparedness and Mitigation

Section III People and Goods on the Move12. The Interconnected World of Trade, Travel, and Transportation Networks13. Mitigating Negative Economic Impacts of Pandemics14. Health Measures at Points of Entry for Prevention15. Rights-based Global Health Security through all-hazard risk management

Section IV Tools and Techniques to Modernize Prevention, Detection, and Response16. Global Laboratory Systems17. Modernizing Public Health Surveillance18. Creating One Health, Integrated, and Informatics-Savvy Health Organizations 19. Analytics and Intelligence for Public Health Surveillance20. Tools and Techniques for Modernizing Prevention, Detection, and Response 21. Countering Vaccine Hesitancy

Section V Moving to the Best-protected Global Community22. Science and Political Leadership in Global Health Security23. Influence of Finance and Philanthropy24. Enhancing Trust and Transparency in Public Health Programs25. Workforce Development26. Advancing Conceptual and Practical Links between Health System Preparedness and Long-term Benefits to Achieve Health Security 27. Measuring Progress of Public Health Response and Preparedness