A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the establishment of a homeland security academic centers for public health preparedness network.

Summary

Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to establish a national network of academic training centers for public health preparedness against terrorist threats. Requires such centers to train State and local health department staff, emergency first responders and primary and acute care providers in best practices for protecting against and responding to bioterrorism, infectious disease, and weapons of mass destruction and to disseminate information to professionals and to the public. Requires the Director to develop and report to Congress a detailed strategy on how such centers will train and educate the national public health workforce on homeland security threats to the public health.

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• Introduced in Senate (text)

  Introduced in Senate · EN · 15 November 2001

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  Introduced in Senate · EN · 15 November 2001

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 15 November 2001

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