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The philosophy of Fluready.net and how to engage in the online collaborative planning network.
Fluready.net grew out of the white paper on business continuity management for avian influenza. We wanted a way to promote discussion and feedback on the white paper and develop an online collaborative network. We wrote the white paper to fill 3 major gaps: 1. the need for guidance for private and public sector organisations, 2. most of the continuity literature on pandemic influenza until now has been written by IT and continuity consultants who gloss over the epidemiological uncertainties and 3. to provide an Australian perspective. Fluready.net offers a FluForum where you can discuss and share planning tips (yes, you have to register to post to stop spam robots filling the forum with unseemly messages). FluBlog is a weblog where we post updates on the latest information on avian and pandemic influenza of relevance to planning. This site is designed to assist both public and private sector organisations and particularly those essential services that ensure society keeps ticking over. Hospitals and health care systems are important, but so is water, power, and food on supermarket shelves. If you are willing to share your continuity plans, email us, and we will post them online into a password protected area where you can exchange ideas with other organisations that are willing to share plans. We will soon be adding an email list you can subscribe to for special alerts, there will probably be two levels - weekly round up email and for those who don't want anymore email - an Alert Email service that only posts when really significant news is breaking that you MUST know - e.g. the pandemic clock suddenly moves closer to midnight. We hope you find Fluready.net useful Craig Dalton and Robyn Considine. About the authorsDr Craig Dalton is a public health physician and has a master’s degree in epidemiology. He is a conjoint Senior Lecturer, School of Medical Practice and Population Health, University of Newcastle, Australia. He began his career in outbreak investigation and control as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, (CDC) Atlanta Georgia in 1992 where he investigated a range of outbreaks in the USA and overseas through to 1995. As director of Hunter Public Health Unit from 1997 to 2003 he was responsible for managing and conducting strategic planning for a multidisciplinary team of public health workers including operational response and planning for SARS in 2003 and the avian influenza threat. He has published on outbreak investigation and control in Australian and international medical journals. Robyn Considine is Director of Consan Consulting and lecturer in the School of Medical Practice and Population Health, University of Newcastle. She has extensive experience in health, education, community sectors and in private business. She has undertaken work in planning and evaluation in a range of areas at national, state and local level. She had responsibility for planning and organisational performance in Hunter Area Health Service in her role as Director of Population Health and Service Improvement, Hunter Area Health Service. In addition she directed a health promotion organisation. In this role she focused on the application of combining behavioural and organisational change approaches to building the capacity for health across communities and organisations. She has published in a range of fields. She has worked in partnerships with government and private organisations in applying a range of planning methodologies to build strategic performance and minimise organisational risks. |
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