Please list them here when you find them, so they can be added to the state Wiki pages, and the state forum threads:
US pandemicflu.gov State/Local checklistFirst Task Establish a Pandemic Preparedness Coordinating Committee that represents all relevant stakeholders in the jurisdiction (including governmental, public health, healthcare, emergency response, agriculture, education, business, communication, community based, and faith-based sectors, as well as private citizens) and that is accountable for articulating strategic priorities and overseeing the development and execution of the jurisdiction’s operational pandemic plan.”
New Hampshire: http://www.dhhs.state.nh.us/DHHS/CDCS/ppcc.htm
…”Under a Memorandum of Understanding, an All Hazards Site Regional Coordinating Committee for each region will oversee the development of a regional pandemic influenza plan and monitor the region’s progress. The Committee’s role is to represent all relevant stakeholders in the region, including public health networks, health and human service organizations, public safety, agriculture, businesses, public and private schools, faith-based and community organizations, subject matter experts and public members and will recognize and build on the efforts already underway in the State.”…
“If you are a member of a local or regional pandemic planning committee and have questions, you may contact the PPCC and DHHS Pandemic Planning Services at”: pandemicplanning@dhhs.state.nh.us
Pandemic Planning Update, pdf HHS Sec Leavitt, March 2006: …Communications and outreach are essential to preparedness.
I am committed to telling people what we know when we know it;
to inform the public without raising unnecessary alarm, and to collaborate with our public and private partners in a way that is fully transparent.
It is my hope that every state and local partner will practice that principle as well — every person must be a communicator.
We must all be ready to provide the best instructions and advice on what is happening, status of school, business and transportation impacts, home health care practices and basic infection control.”…
If you find properly named groups that fit the definition at 05:18, please list them here, so people can find and collaborate with them on strategic priority action items.
Local levels need them too, perhaps even more urgently than state level.
(Other nations, I don’t care if they’re not called PPCC, but if you can find similar public/private preparedness committees in your region list them, too, don’t mean to leave you out.)
Ohio on the state level. (but, that only has state employeess on it? hm -what about the faith-based and community org. and private citizen input?) Are there any local PPCCs?
No we don’t have a committee. Most of you know I have been trying to help get this going in my town. We did have a pandemic meeting broadcast on local cable and I went and asked questions. We now have a new health officer who is a licensed nurse. I knew her before her appointment. Very nice lady. She knows I can help and I have sent her some info. She has now asked me to help and I am meeting with her and the other coordinator from the fire dept tomorrow. So you could say my dream has come true LOL! You all know how frustrated I was so hopefully things are turning around!
Yes there is a pandemic committee in Merrimack NH. This is the only one I can find in the state.
http://www.ci.merrimack.nh.us/Boards/Avian_Flu/avian_flu_preparedness_committee.htm
Ask your elected officials why pandemic preparedness isn’t being given the priority it deserves…
(maybe they believed the CDC starter spreadsheets, or, their own spin?)
Forget “panic”, think unprepardness and outrage and a pandemic year or two with no economic prosects afterwards, because such a high portion of the electorate and essential sector workers are dead, that most survivors are just trying to stay fed and alive.
Communities, or, neighborhoods, may have to just form Volunteer Pandemic Preparedness Coordinating Committees that represent all relevant stakeholders in the jurisdiction (including off-duty governmental, public health, healthcare, emergency response, local agriculture, education, business, communication, community based, and faith-based sectors, and, private families) that look at the Flu Wiki and see what their local problems are going to be and how as citizens they could make local plans and preparations, even if tptb don’t want the public to be trying to get ready for system failures, including how they’ll bury the bodies even if “by the book” gets overwhelmed.
crfullmoon — I just was thinking this today.
When I speak about the pandemic and people ask me What is my background or field (to lend credibility to what I say 0I want to have something to tell them that begins to describe my level of knowledge, which though not huge, appears at this point to qualify me as more of an expert than the folks in my county. (Sad to say!)
I thought about starting some kind of group for the purpose of saying I was the “regional Coordinator” of it — but this is even better.
I am a representative to my town’s Pandemic Preparedness Coordinating Committee — representing the Informed Citizenry. I’ll start the committee if I have to.