ACRP Insight Events

Summary

Airport and public health professionals addressed key challenges and issues facing the aviation sector in reducing the transmission of communicable diseases.

TRB's Conference Proceedings 55: Airport Roles in Reducing the Transmission of Communicable Diseases summarizes the 2-day Insight Event, March 6 and 7, 2018 in Washington, D.C.

Presentations

• Delaying the Inevitable: Lessons Learned from Ebola Airport Screening
  Petra Illig MD, Aviation Medical Services
  
  
• Public Health Perspectives: Coordinating the Response to Imported Infectious Disease Threats in New York City
  Marcelle Layton MD, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
  
  
• Interconnected and Independent: Anticipating Infectious Disease Risks in an Increasingly Mobile World
  Dr. Kamran Khan, University of Toronto
   
  
• Collaboration and Communication: Airport Roles in Reducing Transmission of Communicable Diseases
  Russ Jones MPH, Tarrant County Public Health
   
  
• Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport 2014 Ebola Response
  Deb Helton, Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport
  Dustin Jaynes, Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport
  
  
• High Infectious Diseases at an Int. Airport 2003-2018
  Dr. Walter Gaber, Frankfurt International Airport
  
  
• Partnerships and Other Practical Measures to Manage the Risk of Disease Transmission through Air Travel
  Dr. Ansa Jordaan, Aviation Medicine Section, International Civil Aviation Organization
  
  
• PHX and Maricopa County Public Health – Partners in Preparedness
  Rebecca Sunenshine MD, FIDSA, Maricopa County Public Health
  Chris Rausch ACE, Sky Harbor International Airport
  
  
• Airport & Public Health Partnerships: Success in Communicable Disease Response Planning
  Dr. Amy Sullivan, Washington State Department of Health Kori Nobel, Port of Portland