Deck 5: Legislation, Regulations, and Policy Guidance

Question 1

Although what piece of legislation enticed manufacturers to develop countermeasures, it does not do enough to assist companies during an expensive year of product research and development?

A) The Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002
B) The Smallpox Emergency Protection Act of 2003
C) The Project Bioshield Act of 2004
D) The Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act of 2005

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which piece of legislation was designed to allow state and local health authorities to effectively respond to public health emergencies, and is structured into five basic public health functions: (1) preparedness, (2) surveillance, (3) management of property, (4) protection of persons, and (5) communication?

A) The Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002
B) The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act
C) The Project Bioshield Act of 2004
D) The Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act of 2005

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which of the following aimed to address infectious disease threats by marshaling resources toward International Health Regulations and securing concrete commitments to help nations build core capacities?

A) Global Health Security Agenda
B) Australia Group
C) UNSCR 1540
D) Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Building on what agreement, the CWC explicitly prohibits the use of chemical weapons and bans the development, production, stockpile, and transfer of such agents?

A) Hague Convention
B) Geneva Protocol
C) UNSCR 1540
D) Biological Weapons Convention

Question 5

Name one thing the USA PATRIOT Act did for public health preparedness.

Question 6

What was the Smallpox Vaccination Program of 2003?

Question 7

What did the PREP Act address?

Question 8

List two important provisions of the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act.

Question 9

Name two presidential directives that directly address public health preparedness? Describe the focus.

Question 10

What organization has been tapped to distribute medical countermeasures during a national emergency?

Question 11

The Public Health Improvement Act of 2000 authorized 10 years of appropriation to what agency to defend and combat public health threats?

A) U.S. Food and Drug Administration
B) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
C) National Institutes of Health
D) U.S. Department of Defense

Question 12

In December 2002, the Bush Administration announced a program to vaccinate both military personnel and civilian emergency health workers against what agent?

A) Smallpox
B) Botulism
C) Anthrax
D) Ebola

Question 13

What piece of legislation includes provisions related to acquiring, handling, and transporting particularly dangerous pathogens, as well as funding for substantial new investments in bioterrorism preparedness and response?

A) The USA PATRIOT Act of 2001
B) The Public Health Improvement Act of 2000
C) The Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002
D) The Smallpox Emergency Protection Act of 2003

Question 14

What piece of legislation allowed the secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to force the use of medical countermeasures for emergency purposes without FDA approval?

A) The Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002
B) The Smallpox Emergency Protection Act of 2003
C) The Project Bioshield Act of 2004
D) The Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act of 2005

Question 15

What piece of legislation specifically tasked the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Health and Human Services, and Department of Agriculture to review and assess all biodefense policies, practices, and programs, and to devise a strategy that is to be reviewed biennially?

A) The Smallpox Emergency Protection Act of 2003
B) The Project Bioshield Act of 2004
C) The Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act of 2005
D) The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017

Question 16

While many of the Bush administration directives focused on policies for responding to a biological threat, the Obama strategy directive placed more emphasis on prevention.

Question 17

Public health authority is primarily a power left to the federal government.

Question 18

Signed into law in June 2002, the Bioterrorism Act was the first major piece of legislation dedicated entirely to public health preparedness.

Question 19

The Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act of 2006 established a new preparedness framework that significantly advanced America's emergency public health and medical response capabilities.

Question 20

The Public Health Improvement Act was passed by Congress and signed into law in October 2001, immediately following the 9/11 attacks and during the height of the anthrax letters scare.

Question 21

Established in 1985, what group creates a list of items it believes has the potential to help "would-be-proliferators" develop or acquire chemical or biological weapons?

A) Australia Group
B) U.N. Security Council
C) World Health Organization
D) International Atomic Energy Association

Question 22

The Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (PIP) Framework evolved from a dispute that started in 2007, when the government of what country withheld H5N1 influenza samples from the WHO's Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System

A) China
B) Japan
C) Australia
D) Indonesia

Question 23

What piece of legislation was passed by Congress and signed into law in October 2001, immediately following the 9/11 attacks and during the height of the anthrax-letters scare?

A) USA PATRIOT Act
B) Public Health Improvement Act
C) Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act
D) Smallpox Emergency Protection Act

Question 24

The Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act, known as PAHPA, reauthorized what piece of legislation and added broad provisions aimed at preparing for and responding to public health and medical emergencies, regardless of origin?

A) Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002
B) Smallpox Emergency Protection Act of 2003
C) Project Bioshield Act of 2004
D) Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act of 2005

Question 25

The final title of the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act (PAHPA) builds on what piece of legislation by requiring the establishment of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)?

A) Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002
B) Smallpox Emergency Protection Act of 2003
C) Project Bioshield Act of 2004
D) Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act of 2005

Question 26

Legislation, regulations, and policy guidance form the foundations of public health preparedness.

Question 27

The anthrax letter attacks of 2001 only killed 5 people and sickened 22, but cost over $1 billion in damages and cleanup.

Question 28

Homeland Security Presidential Directive 18 (HSPD 18) was released in early 2007, and it pertained to the development of medical countermeasures to counter the Ebola virus.

Question 29

During a public health emergency, it is essential to have legal authorities in place that allow the government to mount an effective response, mitigate the consequences of the event, and save lives.

Question 30

Some states have public health laws that are inconsistent, complicated, and often outdated.