Health Security

Former surgeon general praises UNMC as ‘amazing’

Jerome Adams, MD, visited the Omaha campus to meet with UNMC leaders and speak to several groups.

Dec 15, 2022

Former U.S. surgeon general Jerome Adams (left), MD, tours the Davis Center for Global Security with John Lowe, PhD, and James Lawler, MD, of the UNMC Global Center for Health Security.

UNMC develops revolutionary patient care system

The ISTARI device, marketed as the CareCube, is a modular, disposable isolation system.

Sep 27, 2022

A flight crew preps the ISTARI (Isolation System for Treatment and Agile Response for high-risk Infections) prototype for loading.

Global Center for Health Security launches The Transmission

The weekly newsletter will focus on news and data on emerging infectious diseases and critical global health security topics.

Sep 22, 2022

Claudinne Miller, a former defense intelligence analyst, will produce The Transmission newsletter for the UNMC Global Center for Health Security.

From social media: Limited use of Paxlovid

The UNMC Global Center for Health Security keeps the community updated on the latest with COVID-19.

Sep 19, 2022

UNMC called nation’s top biocontainment resource

The U.S. Air Force surgeon general and team members tour UNMC.

Sep 12, 2022

At right, Lieutenant General Robert Miller, MD, surgeon general of the U.S. Air Force, listens to UNMC's James Lawler, MD, during a tour of the Davis Global Center and iEXCEL program.

Bob Bartee set to retire in early 2023

Chris Kratochvil, MD, named interim vice chancellor for external relations.

Sep 8, 2022

Bob Bartee

Dr. Schiller’s research aims to aid nation’s military

Alicia Schiller, PhD, is director of combat casualty medicine at UNMC.

Jun 9, 2022

Alicia Schiller, PhD

Maker Studio scales down biocontainment unit

The model will be used in training Air Force participants in the Center for Sustainment of Trauma Readiness Skills (C-STARS) Program.

Jun 1, 2022

From left, Brian Maass of the Maker Studio, Kathleen Boulter, Angela Vasa, Cheryl Rand, James Lawler, MD and Jackson Gruber of the Nebraska BIocontainment Unit and the Global Center for Health Security.

Alla Shapiro, MD, PhD, revisits Chernobyl experiences May 12

At Thursday’s event, Chernobyl first responder will discuss nuclear accident, recent events.

May 10, 2022

Alla Shapiro, MD, PhD

Conference focus: Data security amid new technology

Second annual Great Plains Interoperability Conference set for June 7.

May 9, 2022

Matthew Rizzo, MD