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PACER Overview. In December 2005, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security awarded Johns Hopkins University a multiple year grant to establish the National Center of Excellence for the Study of Preparedness and Catastrophic Event Response (PACER).
California Wildfires. As wildfires ravaged southern California’s San Diego and San Bernadino counties last year, the American Red Cross asked an arm of PACER to assess and enhance the effectiveness of public and private agency reaction to the calamity.
Securing the Future. Securing the Future is an annual conference for 11th grade students from the Baltimore area selected by their Principal or Teacher to represent their schools as Student Ambassadors. This year’s conference will be held on Friday, April 11, 2008,
CSED PACER Work. The Brookings Center on Social and Economic Dynamics (CSED) developed a research tool that explores how the interaction of individuals can shape mass behavior, such as responses to political, economic, environmental or other social shocks.

PACER's mission is to improve the Nation's preparedness and the ability to respond in the event of a high consequence natural or manmade disaster to alleviate the event's effects by developing and disseminating best scientific practices.

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Gabor Kelen, M.D.
Director (Dual), National Center for the Study of Preparedness and Catastrophic Event Response (PACER).
Lynn R. Goldman, M.D., M.P.H.
Director (Dual), National Center for the Study of Preparedness and Catastrophic Event Response (PACER).

National Biosafety & Biocontainment Training Program Fellowships
The NBBTP is now accepting applications for two-year post-doctorate and post-baccalaureate Fellowships. This is a rare opportunity for individuals seeking work in high containment facilities to receive professional training in biosafety and biocontainment at one of the foremost biomedical research centers in the world. Additional information regarding the Fellowships,
Disaster Research Center - Research Experience for Undergraduates
The Disaster Research Center (DRC) at the University of Delaware (UDEL) has established a three-year Research Experience for Undergraduates' (REU) program to engage ten (10) undergraduate students (each year) in hands-on research training to enhance their understanding of the social science aspects of disasters.

EMCAPS
The Electronic Mass Casualty Assessment & Planning Scenarios (EMCAPS) computer program is a tool designed to help hospitals prepare for disasters with the potential to overwhelm services, by calculating the impact at the local level of such critical events as a flu epidemic, bioterrorist attack, or radiologic explosion.
HIGHER EDUCATION
The Higher Education project seeks to foster awareness and interest in homeland security and disaster preparedness and response through the training of the next generation of professionals in the field. Specifically, this project is responsible for the development of curricula with a focus on homeland security and disaster preparedness, as well as the design and administration of the PACER Scholars Program for undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral students.
UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS PROJECT
The Underserved Populations Project has the goal of increasing the involvement of grassroots organizations and other entities involved with critical event preparedness activities targeted to assist underserved populations in times of crisis. To accomplish this goal, the project will, in part, assess community organization’s capacity to deliver preparedness related information to the underserved via the conduct of a qualitative field study.
WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are networks of small embedded computers deployed in close proximity to physical phenomena of interest. WSN nodes collect measurements from an array of local instruments (e.g. temperature, position, acceleration, etc.) process them, and transmit them over the wireless medium to a remote data collection station. WSNs have been used in the past for environmental monitoring, structural monitoring, and condition based maintenance. It is projected that in the future, WSN technology will replace all (wired) telemetry networks, including SCADA networks.
FIVE DIMENSIONS OF PREPAREDNESS
The possibility of a catastrophic, high-consequence event requires that policy makers devise comprehensive policies, using a ‘5D’ approach: i.e., deterrence, dissuasion, denial, diplomacy, and defense. Each of these concepts has an important, unique role in prevention of these events, yet none have been fully explored or implemented. The problem is to convert these concepts into concrete working policies and programs.

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8/10/2009
PACER Supported Studies Could Help Guide Policy, Outbreak Investigations.
Two papers authored by a team at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health could help guide disease outbreak investigations and help develop major health policy decisions during an emerging epidemic.
8/10/2009
PACER Noted in Nature Essay.
An essay in the latest issue of the science journal Nature lays out the case for using a new mapping technology to predict the spread of disease and shape responses to curb its spread.

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3/20/2009
President Obama Intends to Nominate SAIS Scholar Esther Brimmer to Senior State Department Position.
President Barack Obama announced on March 6 his intent to nominate Esther Brimmer, a scholar at the JHU Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), to serve as assistant secretary of State for International Organizations.
3/17/2009
Johns Hopkins Offers Free Software Tool for Large-Scale Disaster "Surge" Planning..
Computer Modeling Program Developed By Hopkins’ Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response and Applied Physics Lab Team

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