Health Security

Maj. Gen. (ret.) Paul Friedrichs, MD, to be awarded honorary degree at commencement

UNMC ceremony will be held at 7 p.m. on Dec. 15 at Baxter Arena.

Dec 13, 2023

Maj. Gen. (ret.) Paul Friedrichs, MD

Next Breakthrough Thinking session focused on health security

The Dec. 15 event features Major Gen. (ret.) Paul Friedrichs, MD, director of The White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy.

Dec 8, 2023

Regents approve planning for training facility at UNMC

The Infectious Diseases Air Transport Training Facility is the latest UNMC partnership with the U.S. Department of Defense.

Dec 4, 2023

The Negatively Pressurized Conex training unit will be housed in the Infectious Diseases Air Transport Training Facility when the facility is completed. From left, Lt. Col. Elizabeth Schnaubelt, MD, Chris Kratochvil, MD, UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD, Maj. Tiffany Welsh, Bob Valentine, Maj. Felecia Craddieth, Maj. John McClain, MD.

UNMC awarded federal emergency preparedness contract

UNMC experts will oversee a new regional Center for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response.

Nov 15, 2023

Rachel Lookadoo, JD, and Lauren Sauer

UNMC welcomes assistant secretary of defense for tour

Lester Martínez-López, MD, commends the healthy relationship between the university and U.S. Department of Defense.

Nov 10, 2023

Lester Martínez-López, MD, assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, tours iEXCEL and the Davis Global Center. (Photos by Nicholas Harnack, 55th Wing Public Affairs, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska)

Dr. Rupp to step down as infectious diseases chief

Mark Rupp, MD, is lauded as an outstanding leader at the forefront of the med center’s infectious disease efforts.

Oct 31, 2023

Mark Rupp, MD

Global Center for Health Security team travels to Puerto Rico

UNMC experts worked with health care collaborators in Puerto Rico on infectious disease exercises and the ISTARI isolation system.

Oct 27, 2023

David Brett-Major, MD, and Jana Broadhurst, MD PhD

A look back at the NU Board of Regents meeting at UNMC

Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD, offered his congratulations and thanks to all who helped showcase UNMC.

Oct 26, 2023

Congressional staffers tour UNMC’s Davis Global Center

UNMC staff offer a firsthand look at some of the important federal initiatives on campus.

Oct 26, 2023

Staff members from the Center for Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills, or C-STARS, led congressional staffers through an exercise donning and doffing personal protective equipment during a tour of the Davis Global Center.

UNMC joins western U.S. partners in infectious disease training

The infection prevention and control exercise in Alaska and Washington involved UNMC’s ISTARI system.

Oct 25, 2023

The exercises simulating an ill patient with a likely highly communicable disease spanned from Fairbanks and Anchorage, Alaska, to Spokane, Washington.