Exam 15: Understanding Biological Threats and Public Health Preparedness in Homeland Security

Subject matter experts that can provide information and technical assistance are assigned to what section as needed?

In response to the Project BioShield Act, Congress and the Bush administration passed the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act, which increases liability associated with public health countermeasures used on an emergency basis.

By using which of the following, the agency can directly disseminate information to the media or to state, local, tribal, and territorial partners, as well as the international community?

A "hot wash" is where all major parties involved in an exercise sit down and discuss what happened and ways that the problems that were identified in the exercise can be fixed.

Public health preparedness, as a subdivision of homeland security, strives to promote the general welfare and provide for the common defense.

In addition to intentional releases of chemical agents, the accidental releases of agents have also posed significant challenges to public health and medical systems worldwide, and have adversely affected the health of populations.

What document remained the primary policy directive concerning biodefense until the National Strategy for Countering Biological Threats was released in late 2009?

Which of the following is the basis for all of the preparedness cycle activities?

New approaches, from animal practices to economic models, are currently being considered by governments in an attempt to address what threat?

The majority of the funds created the by the Project Bioshield Act of 2004 were used to target only three pathogens-Ebola, HIV virus, and Salmonella-which led some to criticize why some of the funds wasn't used to develop therapeutics against other biological agents such as anthrax.

Schedule 1 chemical and precursors are for those chemicals that can most easily be used as weapons and there is very little use for them otherwise.

Which of the following occurs when outside developers are brought in to look at the product from an outsider's perspective?

Which of the following develops protocols and processes for responding to large-scale disasters that require multiple U.N. agencies?

What is the major public health portion of the National Response Framework?

The National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center focuses on activities that support threat characterization and bioforensic analysis to support attribution assessments of biocrimes and bioterrorism.

Public health professionals and emergency medical responses should be managed by the Department of Health and Human Services, which has the greatest health experience and expertise.

In response to the Guinean Ebola outbreak, which agency had begun assisting the three most heavily affected countries with the development of economic recovery plans, acknowledging the severe financial toll the outbreak would take in terms of lost trade and tourism, not to mention the tragic loss of human capital?

Police powers, including the powers to regulate health and safety, are the responsibility of the federal government.

What is the Stafford Act?