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United States Coast Guard Investigative Service
This is the official webpage of the United States Coast Guard Investigative Service. "The Coast Guard Investigative Service (CGIS) is a federal investigative and protective program established to carry out the Coast Guard's internal and external criminal investigations; to assist in providing personal security services; to protect the welfare of Coast Guard people; to aid in preserving the internal integrity of the Coast Guard; and to support Coast Guard missions worldwide. The Coast Guard Investigative Service is a federal law enforcement agency whose law enforcement authority is derived from Title 14 of the United States Code. This authority provides for Coast Guard special agents to conduct investigations of actual, alleged or suspected criminal activity; carry firearms; execute and serve warrants; and make arrests. Today CGIS is comprised of approximately 90 active duty military and civilian special agents and 150 special agents who are members of the Coast Guard Reserve. In a period of declining budgets and personnel resources, CGIS remains firmly committed to providing effective law enforcement services, with minimal financial impact to the taxpayers of the United States."
United States. Coast Guard Investigative Service
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United States House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security [website]
"Welcome to the website of the House Committee on Homeland Security. This website will provide you with a range of resources, including the Committee's priorities, reports, news and other pertinent information throughout the year. The Committee's website will also serve as a portal for updates on our Membership, hearings, markups, and legislation." (From the Welcome statement by Chairman Thompson).
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security
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Preparedness Resources for Healthcare Facilities [website]
This website, created by the Centers for Disease Control, "provides all-hazards resources intended for individuals at healthcare facilities tasked with ensuring that their facility is as prepared as possible for an emergency. The healthcare facilities targeted by this page include hospitals, long-term acute and chronic care facilities, outpatient clinics and urgent care facilities, physicians' offices, and pediatric offices and hospitals."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
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DHS Local Resources [website]
This Department of Homeland Security website provides links to local resources which can be accessed for emergency response and preparedness by citizens in their home states and local communities.
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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APIS: Advance Passenger Information System
This website of the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency provides information about the Advance Passenger Information System (APIS) program. More specifically, "established for commercial airline and vessel operators, APIS enhances border security by providing officers with pre-arrival and departure manifest data on all passengers and crew members."
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
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National Resource Directory [website]
"The National Resource Directory provides wounded, ill and injured service members and veterans, their families, families of the fallen and those who support them with a web-based directory of valuable resources. It delivers information on, and access to, the full range of medical and non-medical services and resources needed to achieve their personal and professional goals across the transitions from recovery to rehabilitation to community reintegration. This online partnership links to the services and resources of federal, state and local governmental agencies; veterans service and benefit organizations; non-profit community-based and faith-based organizations; and academic institutions, professional associations and philanthropic organizations. The mission of the National Resource Directory is: To connect wounded, ill and injured service members, veterans, their families and those who support them with around the clock access to Wounded Warrior Resource Center consultants who are able to assist them. To serve as an online resource for wounded, ill and injured service members, veterans, their families and those who support them during recovery, rehabilitation and community reintegration. It also includes information to assist families of the fallen. To provide information on, and access to, the full range of medical and non-medical services and resources wounded, ill and injured service members and veterans need to achieve their personal and professional goals.To link service members and veterans to support services and resources available across federal, state and local government agencies; veterans service and benefit organizations; non-profit, professional, philanthropic, community and faith-based organizations and academic institutions."
United States. Department of Defense; United States. Department of Veterans Affairs; United States. Department of Labor
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CIA Freedom of Information Act 25-Year Program Archive Search
"CIA has maintained a program operating out of the CIA Declassification Center to review records under the purview of EO 12958, as amended, before they reach their automatic declassification deadline. CIA has deployed an electronic full-text searchable system it has named CREST (the CIA Records Search Tool), which has been operational since 2000 and is located at NARA II in College Park Maryland. [...] On this Agency site, researchers can now use an on-line CREST Finding Aid to research the availability of CIA documents declassified and loaded onto CREST through 2008. Data for the remaining years up to the present (CREST deliveries have been ongoing) will be placed on this site at later dates. As indicated in the '25-Year Released Documents Search' page below, researchers can search by the title and date, or date span, of documents. [...]. Following a successful search, the resulting document metadata will appear on a separate page. In addition to the title and date, the metadata will include the 'ESDN number' (see below), the number of pages, the original classification, document type, and the release decision. The ESDN number is the internal Agency tracking number which should be used when submitting a FOIA request. The original classification is indicated by the letters T (Top Secret), S (Secret), C (Confidential), U (Unclassified), and K for unknown or unmarked. The release decision of the document is either RIF (released in full) or RIP (released in part)."
United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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Civil Liberties Impact Assessment for the State, Local, and Regional Fusion Center Initiative
"The 9/11 Commission acknowledged the challenge of information sharing between the Federal government and State and local entities. As a result, many states and municipalities began adopting a 'fusion' center approach to information sharing that was uncommon in the pre-9/11 era. Using various local, State, and Federal funds, state and local executives have now created approximately 58 fusion centers around the country. These fusion centers (FC) serve as a place where State and local officials, along side their Federal partners, collaborate, coordinate and share law enforcement and intelligence information in an effort to prevent future threats to the Nation. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL) recognizes the importance of information sharing in the homeland security effort. At the same time, CRCL wants to ensure that information sharing is conducted in a lawful manner consistent with Constitutional, statutory, regulatory, and other legal and policy requirements, including applicable privacy and civil liberties standards."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Transportation Security Administration: Mass Transit
This webpage of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) provides information about TSA's efforts to improve mass transit and passenger rail security. "Mass transit systems provide over 9.6 billion passenger trips per year. The U.S. mass transportation fleet is comprised of 144,000 vehicles, of which 56% are buses. In addition, Amtrak operates a nationwide rail transportation network of 22,000 miles of track, and serves 21 million passengers per year at more than 500 stations. Several mass transit systems often share terminals and other facilities. In general, the smaller transit systems are independently owned and operated. However most agencies are owned and operated by governmental or quasi-governmental organizations. The largest mass transit agencies are located in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, Philadelphia and New Jersey. TSA seeks to advance mass transit and passenger rail security through a comprehensive strategic approach that enhances capabilities to detect, deter, and prevent terrorist attacks and respond to and recover from attacks and security incidents, should they occur. TSA's strategic priorities for mass transit and passenger rail security are: 1.) Focus efforts to mitigate high consequence risk to transit assets and systems, particularly underwater and underground infrastructure; 2.) Expand employment of random, unpredictable deterrence; and 3.) Build security force multipliers with training, drills and exercises, and public awareness."
United States. Transportation Security Administration
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Protecting Worker Safety and Health under the National Response Framework
"During a disaster, protecting response and recovery workers is essential for assuring a successful response and recovery. When large-scale disasters overwhelm State and local assets, the National Response Framework (NRF) Worker Safety and Health Support Annex can provide the technical assistance needed to help protect Federal, State, tribal, and local organizations' response and recovery workers. Depending upon the scope, complexity, and hazards associated with the incident, these services can include: identifying and assessing worker health and safety hazards present at the incident site and in the environment; assessing the resources needed to protect workers and identifying the sources available to meet these needs; providing technical expertise in industrial hygiene, occupational safety and health, structural collapse engineering, safety engineering, radiation safety, biological and chemical agent response, and occupational medicine; managing the creation and implementation of a site-specific health and safety plan (HASP); monitoring and managing worker safety and health hazards through on-site identification, evaluation, analysis, and mitigation, including personal exposure monitoring; providing assistance with developing, implementing, and monitoring the personal protective equipment (PPE) program, including the selection, use, and decontamination of PPE; coordinating the collection and management of exposure and accident/injury data to identify trends and facilitate data sharing; coordinating and providing incident-specific response and recovery worker training; and assisting with the development and distribution of educational materials on preventing and mitigating hazards."
United States. Occupational Safety and Health Administration
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Setting the Scene for a Discussion of DoD's Role in Responding to Catastrophe
This report is part of chapter one of five chapters in the series: Threats at Our Threshold: Homeland Defense and Homeland Security in the New Century: A Compilation of the Proceedings of the First Annual Homeland Defense and Homeland Security Conference. The following is taken from the introduction of the report: "The intellectual development of homeland security is beginning to move outside the beltway and Washington D.C., past the issue of training firemen and other first responders, and into the realm of academia. We are finally beginning to engage the intelligencia of the United States, within the university system. This is going to change the nature of the debate, because these experts in research and teaching have things to say that you might not want to hear about what constitutes homeland security, and what we should or should not be doing. This leads to a second point. I want to suggest to you a narrative -- how to think about homeland security. I am certainly moved by 9/11. Many of my students are moved by 9/11. But my faculty, by and large, is not. It does not do me any good to begin with a slide that talks about 9/11. I have quit talking about the global war on terrorism. Many people in the Unites States are not moved by that argument. In fact, there is a certain counter or backfire building against this argument as to why we are at war and isn't it in fact our own fault. So, I use a different narrative to explain our situation. I offer it to every audience because I think it is important that we have a common understanding of what we are doing and why. My first point is that the current problems of homeland security have nothing to do with whether or not there are Arab fundamentalist here and whether or not we are facing Islamic radicalism. It has everything to do with the maturity of technology so that small people now have access to big weapons."
Army War College (U.S.). Center for Strategic Leadership
Tussing, Bert B.; McIntyre, David H.
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Finding the Enemy Within: Towards a Framework for Domestic Intelligence
This report is chapter four of five chapters in the series: Threats at Our Threshold: Homeland Defense and Homeland Security in the New Century: A Compilation of the Proceedings of the First Annual Homeland Defense and Homeland Security Conference. The following is taken from the introduction of the report: "Of all the issues that we have wrestled with since 9/11, perhaps none has received more consideration or attention in discussions on homeland security than the acknowledged shortcomings of intelligence--in collection, analysis, and sharing--prior to the September 2001 attacks. In the United States, intelligence collection is split between agencies that look outside of our borders (e.g., the military, the Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]) and those that look inward (the Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]). And while there has been significant attention paid to the reorganization, revitalization and resourcing of our foreign intelligence services, far less attention has been paid to the domestic side of the equation. There is, however, a clear new need and many new activities emerging to bolster intelligence capabilities to support post-9/11 homeland security/defense missions. And yet the increase in domestic intelligence (DI) collection has moved forward with little public discussion, no apparent framework, and little oversight. This raises the prospect of an emerging domestic intelligence 'system' where all the pieces don't fit together, pieces are missing or redundant, and there is no framework for protecting individual liberties. To address DI responsibly requires answering fundamental questions about what agencies should be responsible for collecting intelligence within the United States; what types of domestic information the government should collect, and how it should be used; and how the government needs to coordinate and oversee the process to assure effectiveness and protection of civil liberties."
Army War College (U.S.). Center for Strategic Leadership
Heyman, David
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DoD and the Problem of Mega-Catastrophes
This report is part of chapter one of five chapters in the series: Threats at Our Threshold: Homeland Defense and Homeland Security in the New Century: A Compilation of the Proceedings of the First Annual Homeland Defense and Homeland Security Conference. The following is taken from the introduction of the report: "The organizers of this conference made a strange choice in selecting me to advance the argument that the Department of Defense (DoD) ought to take the lead role in responding to catastrophes. For the overwhelming majority of incidents that may confront the U.S. response system in the future, I believe that the current, civilian-led system is structurally sound (and in many respects, ideal). The same civilian-led system also provides the best framework for building the sort of response system necessary for what I will call 'normal catastrophes' --that is, catastrophes on the scale of Hurricane Katrina. But the United States should plan for the unlikely possibility that a catastrophe of a vastly larger scale may strike. In such a 'mega-catastrophe,' DoD will face unwanted but ineluctable pressures to temporarily assume the lead of U.S. response operations. That is not a particularly desirable thing. Still worse, however, is the prospect that DoD would take the lead without having planned for the challenges it will confront, including the imperative to return leadership responsibilities to civilian officials as rapidly and effectively as possible. My argument is built around a typology of very bad events, ordered in terms of their destructiveness: 1) major disasters (as defined in the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act); 2) normal catastrophes (as defined by the National Response Plan and its Catastrophic Incident Annex); and 3) mega-catastrophes, which differ qualitatively from normal catastrophes in ways that will require a different architecture for the response system, and a different role for DoD."
Army War College (U.S.). Center for Strategic Leadership
Stockton, Paul
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National Gang Center [website]
This is the official site for the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's National Gang Center. "This Web site features the latest research about gangs; descriptions of evidence-based, anti-gang programs; and links to tools, databases, and other resources to assist in developing and implementing effective community-based gang prevention, intervention, and suppression strategies. Here you will find an analysis of the findings from nearly 15 years of data collected by the annual National Youth Gang Survey of 2,500 U.S. law enforcement agencies. Visitors can read and download publications related to street gangs. An online form allows communities to request training and technical assistance as they plan and implement anti-gang strategies. Users can register for a variety of anti-gang training courses. The Web site also hosts a database of gang-related state legislation and municipal codes; a list of newspaper articles on nationwide gang activity that is updated daily; and GANGINFO, an electronic mailing list for professionals working with gangs." The site index may be found at: http://www.nationalgangcenter.gov/Site-Index
United States. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
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Pathways to Success -Grants at DHS
This report outlines the guidelines for proposing grants at the Department of Homeland Security, Security and Technology Directorate, University Programs. The report discusses suggested area of focus guidelines including funding opportunities, award information, eligibility information, application and submission information, application review information, award administration information, Department of Homeland Security contacts. The report also discusses award information and guidelines.
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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U.S. Department of Homeland Security: Critical Infrastructure Sectors [website]
This webpage provides links to information and resources related to 18 critical infrastructure sectors: Food and Agriculture, Banking and Finance, Chemical, Commercial Facilities, Communications, Critical Manufacturing, Dams, Defense Industrial Base, Emergency Services, Energy, Government Facilities, Healthcare and Public Health, Information Technology, National Monuments and Icons, Nuclear Reactors, Materials and Waste, Postal and Shipping, Transportation Systems and Water. Links to sector-specific plans are included.
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Virtual USA
This is a brief fact sheet on 'Virtual USA.' According to the fact sheet 'Virtual USA' is "a collaboration between the Department of Homeland Security, the emergency response community and eight states across the nation-is an innovative information sharing system that helps federal, state, local and tribal first responders work with all levels of government to make fast, well-informed decisions."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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USAID from the American People [website]
"The United States has a long history of extending a helping hand to those people overseas struggling to make a better life, recover from a disaster or striving to live in a free and democratic country. It is this caring that stands as a hallmark of the United States around the world -- and shows the world our true character as a nation. U.S. foreign assistance has always had the twofold purpose of furthering America's foreign policy interests in expanding democracy and free markets while improving the lives of the citizens of the developing world. Spending less than one-half of 1 percent of the federal budget, USAID works around the world to achieve these goals. USAID's history goes back to the Marshall Plan reconstruction of Europe after World War Two and the Truman Administration's Point Four Program. In 1961, the Foreign Assistance Act was signed into law and USAID was created by executive order. Since that time, USAID has been the principal U.S. agency to extend assistance to countries recovering from disaster, trying to escape poverty, and engaging in democratic reforms. USAID is an independent federal government agency that receives overall foreign policy guidance from the Secretary of State." The site also offers current information on recent catastrophes both domestically, and globally.
United States. Agency for International Development
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Review of Department Compliance with President's Executive Order on Detainee Conditions of Confinement
"The Secretary of Defense tasked a special DoD team to review the conditions of confinement at Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, to ensure all detainees there are being held 'in conformity with all applicable laws governing the conditions of confinement, including Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions,' pursuant to the President's Executive Order on Review and Disposition of Individuals Detained at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base and Closure of Detention Facilities, dated January 22, 2009. The Review Team conducted 13 days of investigation on site that included more than 100 interviews with JTF-Guantánamo leadership, support staff, interrogators, and guards, multiple announced and unannounced inspections of all camps during daylight and night operations, reviewed numerous reports, video, discipline records, and observed many aspects of daily operations. Collectively, we talked to a number of detainees and observed detainee activities, including enteral feedings and interrogations. The review Team also solicited a sampling of opinion, studies, and published works, which reflected the perspective of detainees and other concerned interest groups, many with recommendations to improve detention conditions. This included our request for additional views from four organizations who wrote to the President concerning Guantánamo on January 30, 2009: Human Rights First, Human Rights Watch, the American Civil Liberties Union and Amnesty International. These organizations responded to that request on February 6, 2009, and their submissions were carefully considered."
United States. Department of Defense
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Photonuclear Inspection and Threat Assessment System: An Advanced Cargo-Screening Technology for Detecting Illicit Radiological Materials
"In addition, new concerns about the worldwide availability of nuclear materials and technology, combined with a rise in global terrorist operations, have likely increased the risk of a domestic nuclear attack. Nonproliferation experts claim that what is needed is a greater emphasis on detecting nuclear materials before they enter or near the 95,000-mile maritime border of the United States.To confront this growing challenge, scientists and engineers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory are perfecting a technology that has the capabilities to accurately scan cargo containers for smuggled nuclear materials at long standoff distances."
United States. Department of Energy
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Transmission Line Security Monitor
"High-voltage transmission lines strung from support towers sprawl for thousands of miles across the United States and form the backbone of the nation's electric power grid. The grid carries power from generating sources to industrial complexes, urban areas and rural communities across America. On its march from power generators to consumers much of the high-voltage transmission corridor passes through remote areas where security is scant or not available. Authorities recognize that our power grid is vulnerable to terrorist attacks, vandalism and extreme natural conditions including weather, fire and seismic activity. These conditions can bring lines and towers down and disrupt service to wide areas of the country. Until recently, there was no cost-effective way to comprehensively monitor the grid, optimize performance and protect it from catastrophic failures."
United States. Department of Energy
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CIA: World Factbook [website]
"The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities. Our Reference tab includes: maps of the major world regions, as well as Flags of the World, a Physical Map of the World, a Political Map of the World, and a Standard Time Zones of the World map."
United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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Traveling Overseas with Mobile Phones, Laptops, PDAs, and Other Electronic Devices
This short document contains tips from the National Counterintelligence Executive on traveling overseas with electronic devices. It contains general tips one should know, tips for before traveling, while away, and upon return. The tips are mostly related to securing your personal information and company intelligence.
United States. Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive
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How to Prepare for a Winter Storm
"The extreme cold and heavy snowfall that accompany winter storms can be debilitating and dangerous. Winter storms can affect everyone, even those who usually experience mild winters. Heavy snowfall can be blinding for drivers and dangerous for those it traps indoors. Winter storms may also include high winds, sleet, freezing rain, frozen roads, power outages and dangerously cold temperatures."
United States. Department of the Army. Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management
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National Infrastructure Protection Plan: Healthcare and Public Health Sector [Snapshot]
"Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7 (HSPD-7) identified 17 critical infrastructure and key resources (CIKR) sectors and designated Federal Government Sector-Specific Agencies (SSAs) for each of the sectors. Each sector is responsible for developing and implementing a Sector-Specific Plan and providing sector-level performance feedback to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to enable gap assessments of national cross-sector CIKR protection programs. SSAs are responsible for collaborating with private sector security partners and encouraging the development of appropriate information-sharing and analysis mechanisms within the sector." This National Infrastructure Protection Plan gives a snapshot of the Healthcare and Public Health Sector. Information includes a Sector Overview, Sector Vision, CIKR Protection Focus, Priority Programs, and Sector Partnerships. Currently, there is no full Healthcare and Public Health Sector plan available for public release.
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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National Language Service Corps [website]
"The National Language Service Corps (NLSC) is a group of individuals who speak more than one language. [...] The NLSC offers individuals with language expertise the opportunity to help their neighbors and fellow citizens by participating in national and state efforts, particularly in times of emergency or crisis when their expertise can truly make a difference. [...] The mission of the NLSC is to recruit a readily-available pool of individuals who have expertise in languages that are important to the security and welfare of the nation. The NLSC provides certification to qualified individuals as part of its enrollment process." The NLSC pilot program, formally launched in 2007, recruits speakers of Mandarin, Hausa, Indonesian, Marshallese, Russian, Somali, Thai, Hindi, Swahili and Vietnamese.
National Security Education Program (U.S.)
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Dystopia: Where Bad Things Happen
This Center for Homeland Defense and Security Webpage contains "a fictional world created for homeland defense and security educational exercises. Dystopia is a rich detailed fictional world that is continually being developed and extended with people and places for the purpose of supporting strategic planning and functional exercises and educational simulations for homeland defense and security. […]. Dystopia itself is a standalone product. It is a collection of geospecific and meta data that creates a robust, deep virtual environment in which exercises, games and scenarios can be created. This collection of data includes spatial information, 2D map products, and a database of metadata about the people and places located in this world. Dystopia, by itself, is not a game or exercise - instead, it provides a context for those types of learning activities. It must be embedded into an application or interface that contains game logic or exercise rules. It also can be used for tabletop or other live exercises that do not use software, but impose rules explicitly and use the electronic viewing and searching products of Dystopia for efficiency.
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.). Center for Homeland Defense and Security
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Community Flu 2.0
"CommunityFlu is a software program that simulates the spread of influenza through a model community, and the impact of a variety of potential interventions (e.g., vaccinations, school closings, wearing of face masks, patient and household isolation/self quarantine). CommunityFlu also calculates the cost, in terms of workdays lost, of influenza and the associated interventions."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Public Health Emergency Preparedness Archive
"This resource was developed by AHRQ as part of its Public Health Emergency Preparedness program, which was discontinued on June 30, 2011. Many of AHRQ's PHEP materials and activities will be supported by other Federal agencies. Notice of transfer to another agency will be posted on this site."
United States. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) [website]
"The Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) was established in 1971. The original conception of MERIP was to provide information and analysis on the Middle East that would be picked up by the existing media. [...] MERIP is a non-profit, non-governmental organization based in Washington, DC. A completely independent organization, it has no links to any religious, educational or political organizations in the US or elsewhere. [...] Since 1996, MERIP has maintained one of the most informative websites on Middle East politics, culture and society." The website maintains links to its publication, 'Middle East Report' in addition to various other special publications of interest on the Middle East region, such as the 'Report of the Task Force for Responsible Withdrawal from Iraq' and a 'Primer on Palestine, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict.'"
Middle East Research & Information Project
