Shannon Becker
Region VII Emerging Special Pathogen Treatment Center Provides Webinar Training
On October 7, 2020, the Region VII Emerging Special Pathogen Treatment Center (RESPTC) hosted a virtual biopreparedness course for Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri learners. The course was attended by over 150 physicians, emergency managers, nurses, respiratory therapists, and other health care workers. By live and active participation in the course, attendees were able to […]
Oct 19, 2020
C-STARS Introduces Two New Team Members
The Center for Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills (C-STARS) has welcomed two new team members to their Omaha office: Major David Kline, MD , and Captain John McClain, MD. Dr. Kline recently completed his infectious disease fellowship at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. For a year prior to fellowship, he was […]
Oct 19, 2020
GCHS Spotlight: Dr. Muhammad Salman Ashraf
Muhammad Salman Ashraf, MBBS, is an Associate Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, at University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, where he also serves as the medical director for Nebraska Infection Control Assessment and Promotion Program (ICAP) and co-medical director for Nebraska Antimicrobial Stewardship Assessment and Promotion Program […]
Oct 19, 2020
CDC Awards UNMC $9.5M Grant to Enhance Rural Infection Prevention and Control
UNMC, in partnership with Nebraska Medicine, was awarded a $9.5 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to enhance infection prevention and control (IPC) initiatives in small and rural healthcare facilities and advance the ability of health care workers to provide safe and effective clinical care. To address rural healthcare facility […]
Oct 18, 2020
GCHS Participates in Dedication of Dr. Edwin G. & Dorothy Balbach Global Center
The Dr. Edwin G. & Dorothy Balbach Davis Global Center, home to UNMC’s iEXCEL program and the Global Center for Health Security, celebrated its virtual dedication on October 13, 2020. iEXCEL is a highly technologically advanced center that provides clinical simulation for exper iential learning by using a wide range of technologies including augmented and […]
Oct 18, 2020
Ethics for Preparedness, Response, and Recovery
Witnessing the Global Center for Health Security and federal partners’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Director of Ethics and Public Health Preparedness Abbey Lowe observed ethics-related questions, centered on quarantined individuals, rising from the daily operations meeting’s discussions. Those unprecedented ethical issues needed quick responses. Dr. David Brett-Major, an internal medicine and infectious diseases physician […]
Oct 18, 2020
New Team Member Joins the Global Center for Health Security
Lisa Brand joins the GCHS as the new Program Manager for the Region VII Disaster Health Response Ecosystem (RDHRE), an expansion of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response's Regional Disaster Health Response System demonstration grant. The grant has now expanded beyond Nebraska to include Iowa, Missouri, and […]
Aug 29, 2020
The GCHS Spotlight: Kathleen Boulter, MPH, BAN (HONS), RN
The August GCHS Spotlight features Ms. Kathleen Boulter. Ms. Boulter has been instrumental in the battle against highly infectious diseases–both Ebola Virus Disease and more recently the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Aug 28, 2020
C-STARS Deployment in Support of Air Force COVID-19 Air Transport Capability
U.S. Airforce C-STARS Omaha team deployed to operationalize the Transportation Isolation System for COVID-19
Aug 28, 2020
Improving Safety at Nebraska’s Long Term Care Facilities
The GCHS collaborates with partners, ICAP and NETEC, to assist long term care facilities with COVID-19 risk mitigation.
Aug 28, 2020
