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Public Health Forum 2012

Every year, the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, Division of Disease Control holds a forum focusing on current issues in public health preparedness. This program is geared toward medical and nursing professionals in infectious diseases and infection control, emergency medicine, student health, primary care, and public health professionals. This forum is free of charge for registrants.

The 2012 Public Health Forum was held at the Academy of Natural Science at 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA on Tuesday, May 22.

The 2012 agenda is below. A PDF version of each handout provided during this Forum is linked below.

AGENDA


8:00 - 8:30 Registration/Continental Breakfast


8:30 - 8:40 Welcome, Opening Remarks

PDPH Handouts


9:25 - 10:10 Hepatitis C: Still a Silent Epidemic?


10:10 - 10:20 Break


10:20 - 11:05 Three Recent Foodborne Outbreaks: the Problem of the "Stealth Food Vehicle"

Handout
Article: A Question of Origin


11:05 - 11:50 Radiological Health and Emergency Response in Pennsylvania


11:50 - 12:00 Division of Disease Control Update