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Friday, February 8, 2008

DHS budget request for 2009 is out ...

... and can be found here:

http://www.dhs.gov/xnews/releases/pr_1202151112290.shtm

Posted by Erik at 7:49 AM

Labels: 2009, annual budget, department of homeland security

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About Me

Erik: Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States; Greetings ... I set up this blog to discuss homeland security and emergency preparedness education issues. I have many years of experience in risk assessment, toxicology, environmental health, and public health preparedness. I helped build and staff state-level preparedness systems and plans (specifically for chemical and hazardous materials emergencies). My years of training public health preparedness partners have shown me that creating sustainable training programs in public health, homeland security and emergency preparedness is the only way to "prevent another Hurricane Katrina." Hopefully this will continue to serve as my new home as I develop my online teaching career in these fields. Enjoy.

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Links to my writing, tools and presentations

Look at a 2007 presentation devoted to the Interstate Chemical Terrorism Workgroup, I group I co-facilitated and still act as part-time advisory council member
Abstract at Nov 2007 American Public Health Ass'n annual meeting
Watch my 54-minute invited keynote luncheon address to the 2007 Michigan Premier Public Health Conference
Archived Webcast Online Course: Chemical Sleuthing - Web-Based Tools for Public Health
Presentation: Tools for Public Health Response to Chemical Emergencies
2005 presentation on chemical terrorism at the 2nd annual regional emergency preparedness conference for the Great Lakes Intertribal Council
I contributed risk assessment modeling to this investigation at a former WWI era chemical weapons facility
An investigation into a "psychogenic mass illness"
Summary report for "Risk Communication Needs in a Chemical Event" (Feb 2004) - a workshop I helped put together with the CDC and ICTW
Link to a suite of materials for chemical emergency risk communication
Health consults and risk communication materials for a former vermiculite plant in a major Arabic neighborhood
Nov 2004 press release concerning a former vermiculite plant in Dearborn (MI)
Oct 2005 interview with me on meth labs from Capital News ervice (MI)
Chemical Residual Removal for Children Associated with Clandestine Meth Labs - National Drug Endangered Children "Medical Research Working Group"
I contributed towards the creation of this meth lab cleanup guidance from the state of MI
Michigan Emergency Drug Delivery and Resource Utilization Network - a Noblis Prize for Innovation in Homeland Security finalist for 2007
A health consult on a "red phosphorus" meth lab
Health consult for dry cleaner vapor intrusion incident (used as an EPA teaching model!)
I contributed knowledge of mercury fate and transport to the 2003 International Joint Commission "Priorities and Progress under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement"
Health consult for a PCB-contaminated river segment
Health consult and medical evaluation materials for a hazardous materials release onto an elementary school
I give Chemical Terrorism and Environmental Health lectures to the Public Health Action Suport Team at U Michigan
You can see a collection of the wildlife toxicity documents (for explosives) I worked on in the back of the is large (7.8 MB) Army document appendix
Wildlife toxicity value for explosive RDX

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Places of note to go for info

Here's a link to the full list of HS Presidential Directives to date (21 in total)
The new (January 2008) National Response Framework can be accessed here
"Gold standard" of graduate homeland security education: Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security
FEMA's Emergency Management Institute "Higher Education project"
DHS offers links to resources and information on preparedness in your community (by state)
National Congress for Secure Communities
CDC's bioterrorism web page
My favorite way to access the National Response Plan
Access the National Strategy for Homeland Security
Access information on the National Infrastructure Protection Plan
National Governors Association Center for Best Practices - Homeland Security & Technology articles
Here's a blog devoted to public health preparedness modeling
DHS "Leadership Journal" ... part news, part blog