Check out what you’ve missed so far and learn more about ways to attend this year’s national conference
Online shopping for medicines is growing quickly due to convenience and current guidance from health authorities to the public to maintain social distance to keep themselves and vulnerable populations safe. While the U.S. has one of the world’s most secure supply chains, there is growing evidence that Americans are increasingly exposed to sources outside the typical supply chain for medicine.
“The amount of money that is being made by criminal organizations making counterfeit medicines is such a large profit, it only improves their process of making identical, counterfeit medicines that are extremely dangerous and hard to distinguish among authentic medicines,” said Lev Kubiak, vice president and chief security officer for Pfizer.
This innovative classroom provided an overview of counterfeit medicines, how that relates to COVID-19 medicine and vaccines and what can be done about it.
If you missed it, you can watch it here.
Also last week, Erica Bornemann, director of Vermont Emergency Management and the National Emergency Management Association (NEMA) on the new Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) Program through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Historic amounts of grant funding will flow into states in 2021 to use for pre-disaster mitigation and large infrastructure projects from the BRIC Program, which allows states and local communities to shift from reactive disaster spending and instead take forward-leaning and innovative approaches to building resilience, including public-private partnerships and nature-based solutions. Learn how this unprecedented opportunity can be leveraged to build climate and disaster resilience, reinforce equity and encourage stronger economies.
You can view that program here.
The Association of Air Pollution Control Agencies (AAPCA), a CSG Affiliate, presented a session on wildfires and the impact on air quality.
With smoke from record-setting wildfires impacting air quality across the United States, environmental agencies play a key information and communication role for both the public and policymakers. This session focused on federal, state and local efforts to provide accurate, up-to-date resources on air quality and public health.
“Exceptional events are unusual events that affect air quality and are not reasonably controllable or preventable,” said Nancy Vehr with the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality. “Why is the process so important? There’s a regulatory significance to the data, and air quality data is used by public researchers and other governmental agencies in order to make scientific health and policy decisions. So we want the data to be good and we want limitations on that data to be well understood.”
To view that program, visit this link.
