title: Logistics modelling: improving resource management and public information strategies in Florida.
abstract: One of the most time-sensitive and logistically-challenging emergency response operations today is to provide mass prophylaxis to every man, woman and child in a community within 48 hours of a bioterrorism attack. To meet this challenge, federal, state and local public health departments in the USA have joined forces to develop, test and execute large-scale bioterrorism response plans. This preparedness and response effort is funded through the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Cities Readiness Initiative, a programme dedicated to providing oral antibiotics to an entire population within 48 hours of a weaponised inhalation anthrax attack. This paper will demonstrate how the State of Florida used a logistics modelling tool to improve its CRI mass prophylaxis plans. Special focus will be on how logistics modelling strengthened Florida's resource management policies and validated its public information strategies.
authors: Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA. dwalsh@anl.gov
authors: Daniel M
authors: DM
authors: Walsh
authors: Chuck
authors: C
authors: Van Groningen
authors: Brian
authors: B
authors: Craig
mesh_terms: D000881:Anthrax / Q000517:prevention & control*; D023482:Bioterrorism; D004189:Disaster Planning; D005431:Florida; D006295:Health Resources / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D017146:Models, Organizational; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D056990:Post-Exposure Prophylaxis / Q000458:organization & administration*; D057188:Workflow