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Bioterrorism grant to benefit the Pacific Northwest

Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, February 17, 2006

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A $4.4 million federal grant has been awarded that will allow Northwest states-Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Washington, and the Dakotas-to develop their bioterrorism emergency response plans. The grant was awarded to the St. Vincent Healthcare Foundation's Northwest Research and Education Institute and its partners in bioterrorism defense planning: the University of Montana Skaggs School of Pharmacy and the state Department of Public Health and Human Services.

The grant will be used to train medical personnel in Montana and neighboring states to identify and respond to public health crises, including bioterrorism and infectious disease.

Other projects funded by the grant will include:

• Building an emergency operations plan for Yellowstone National Park.
• Facilitating bioterrorism response drills with the Crow and Northern Cheyenne tribes.
• Developing an infectious-disease mentorship program, in which the state's half-dozen infectious-disease specialists would become direct resources for rural medical providers.

Source: Billings Gazette (Billings, MT)

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