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Conducting an Effective Exercise During COVID-19

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Faced with constraints during the COVID-19 pandemic, agencies have had to think creatively about how to maximize the reach and benefit of their exercises.

, personnel who would normally participate in exercises are often busy supporting pandemic response operations, particularly within emergency management and public health agencies. At the state and local ... Effective Exercises During COVID-19 Faced with constraints during the COVID-19 pandemic, agencies have had to think creatively about how to maximize the reach and benefit of their exercises. /images/InDepth/Post70.jpg Conducting an Effective Exercise During COVID-19 70 Tschuna Patterson Tschuna Patterson Associate Research Analyst in CNA’s Institute for Public Research. Exercises play a vital

Don't Wait to Review Your COVID-19 Response

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Prolonged pandemics, such as the outbreak of COVID-19, pose a particular dilemma as agencies decide when to conduct an after-action review.

of COVID-19, pose a particular dilemma as agencies decide when to conduct an after-action review. The answer is now. Many public health and emergency management agencies are conducting interim reviews ... and Security division. She is responsible for CNA's domestic preparedness portfolio, which includes projects and studies for the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Health and Human Services

Modeling the Pandemic to Protect Prisoners and Staff

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Without adequate testing of staff and inmates and with little experience with the virus, the immediate response is frequently lockdown.

. Should certain movements be allowed? Can the staff hold a meeting? Should meals no longer be served in the mess hall? Should gym and workout facilities be closed? CNA’s Institute for Public Research ... are vital to the safety, security and health of the nation. center

cna talks: Domestic Terrorism in the United States

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In the wake of the recent mailed pipe bombs and Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooting, CNA experts Bill Rosenau and Dawn Thomas discuss the historical context of domestic terrorism in America and the rise of the “lone wolf” and violent right-wing extremism over recent decades. They distinguish domestic terrorism from hate crimes and examine societal perceptions of the severity of each. They also review prevention and law enforcement responses to hate crimes and domestic terrorism. Rosenau notes that while terrorism is perceived as the more critical threat, Americans are more likely to be a victim of a hate crime. They also point out that if current systems have been unable to predict and identify perpetrators in recent years, it suggests the traditional risk factors may be outdated while modern technology and prediction tools are underutilized. Thomas questions why Americans are increasingly susceptible to malign influence, and Rosenau emphasizes the need for more academic study on domestic terrorism, as it poses a greater threat to American civilians than foreign terrorism.

evacuations, medical evacuation, earthquakes and tsunamis, mass casualty chemical incidents, public health outbreaks (human and animal), and cyberattacks. Thomas came to CNA after studying terrorism

ai with ai: The AI Is Smarter on the Other Side of the FENCE

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Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, including the new DARPA FENCE program (Fast Event-based Neuromorphic Camera and Electronics), which seeks to create event-based cameras that only focus on pixels that have changed in a scene. NIST proposed an approach for reducing the risk of bias in AI and has invited the public to comment and help improve it. Researchers from the University of Colorado, Boulder use a machine learning model to learn physical properties in electronics building blocks (such as clumps of silicon and germanium atoms), as a way to predict how larger electronics components will work or fail. Researchers in South Korea create an artificial skin that mimics human tactile recognition, and couple it with a deep learning algorithm to classify surface structures (with an accuracy of 99.1%). A survey from IE University shows, among other things, that 75% of people surveys in China support replacing parliamentarians with AI, while in the US, 60% were opposed to it. A scientist with uses machine learning to learn Rembrandt's style and then recreate missing pieces of the painter's "The Night Watch." Researchers at Harvard, San Diego, Fujitsu, and MIT present methodical research on demonstrating how classification neural networks are susceptible to small 2D transformations and shifts, image crops, and changes in object colors. The GAO releases a report on Facial Recognition Technology, surveying 42 federal agencies, and finds a general lack of accountability in the use of the technology. The WHO releases a report on Ethics and Governance of AI for Health. In rebuttal to DeepMind's "Reward is enough" paper, Roitblat and Byrnes pens separate essays on why "Reward is not enough." An open-access book by Wang and Barabasi looks at the Science of Science. Julia Schneider and Lena Ziyal join forces to provide a comical essay on AI: We Need to Talk, AI. And the National Security Commission on AI holds an all-day summary on Global Emerging Technology.

cameras that only focus on pixels that have changed in a scene. NIST proposed an approach for reducing the risk of bias in AI and has invited the public to comment and help improve it. Researchers from ... of AI for Health. In rebuttal to DeepMind's "Reward is enough" paper, Roitblat and Byrnes pens separate essays on why "Reward is not enough." An open-access book by Wang and Barabasi looks ... and Governance of AI for Health Summary Report Rebuttal of the Week Reward is   Not   Enough "Building artificial intelligence: Reward is not enough," by Herbert Roitblat

ai with ai: The Persistence of Memor-E

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In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss an editorial in The Lancet Digital Health, which examines whether preliminary models add clinical value to health-care systems. In regular AI news, an Italian court rules that the European food delivery app Deliveroo used a “discriminatory” algorithm, potentially opening the door for liability even with unintentional algorithmic discrimination. A study from Google, OpenAI, Apple, Stanford, Berkeley, and Northeastern shows that large language models trained on public data can expose personal information, by making it possible to extract specific pieces of training data. In research, OpenAI combines the mini-GPT algorithm DALL-E with an image-to-text algorithm CLIP, to create an extremely powerful and flexible generative model, capable of generating high-quality images based on text instructions. The report of the week comes from the Connections 2020 Conference proceedings, which examined Representing AI in Wargames. The survey of the week looks at neural network interpretability. Kevin Murphy provides the book of the week, with Probabilistic Machine Learning: An Introduction. And Geoff Hinton speak on Eye on AI with Craig S. Smith about his latest research and the future of AI

In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss an editorial in The Lancet Digital Health, which examines whether preliminary models add clinical value to health-care systems. In regular AI news ... . A study from Google, OpenAI, Apple, Stanford, Berkeley, and Northeastern shows that large language models trained on public data can expose personal information, by making it possible to extract specific ... Italian Court Rules European food delivery app Deliveroo Used 'Discriminatory' Algorithm “An Artificial Revolution” Study shows large language models trained on public data expose

CNA Analysts Share How 9/11 Impacted Their Careers

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Eight CNA analysts share the stories of how the events of September 11, 2001, shaped their careers.

Safety and Security Institute for Public Research On the morning of 9/11, I was a second-year graduate student at the University of Michigan, studying public health. I was getting ready for my ... was in cancer research, but the attacks of 9/11 and the subsequent anthrax mailings spotlighted massive deficiencies in our nation’s public health and health care systems to respond to mass casualty ... struggling with how to prepare for and respond to major public health and medical disasters. In graduate school, I didn’t hear even a single lecture on the role of public health in emergency preparedness

cna talks: How New Mexico Prepared for COVID-19

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Federal, State and local agencies regularly use exercises to prepare for natural disasters including pandemics . In 2019, many of these entities and private sector partners participated in the scenario Crimson Contagion, which was meant to test how the U.S. government would respond to a novel influenza pandemic spreading through the U.S. Sound familiar? On this episode of CNA Talks, Chris Emory, the Bureau Chief of Health Emergency Management within in the New Mexico Department of Health, and Cynthia Holmes who served as the coordinator for New Mexico’s Joint Information Center for the first 200 of the COVID response join CNA analysts Dawn Thomas and Eric Trabert. They discuss how lessons learned from Crimson Contagion shaped New Mexico’s response to COVID-19.

than 60 exercises, in the fields of health and medical operations, animal disease and public health. Eric Trabert is the Director of CNA’s Center for Public Health Preparedness and Resilience . He has evaluated the public health responses to more than a dozen emergencies, including the 2014-2016 Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic, and the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic. Chris Emory ... ? On this episode of CNA Talks, Chris Emory, the Bureau Chief of Health Emergency Management within in the New Mexico Department of Health, and Cynthia Holmes who served as the coordinator for New

cna talks: COVID-19: After Social Distancing

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CNA experts Joel Silverman, Dawn Thomas and Eric Trabert discuss two areas of the COVID-19 recovery. How organizations can prepare for employees headed back to work and what guidance should be provided about the possibility of a second wave of COVID-19.

of the Center for Public Health Preparedness and Resilience. He is an expert in all-hazards preparedness with a focus on medical surge and mass casualty incident response. Dawn Thomas ... prepare for and respond to public health outbreaks (human and animal). Joel Silverman is a Senior Research Scientist for CNA’s Center for Critical Incident Analysis. Dr. Silverman has designed, facilitated, and/or evaluated over 60 emergency preparedness exercises in the fields of public health and medical operations, climate change, and animal disease response. ContactName /*/Contact

cna talks: The Opioid Epidemic

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In this episode of CNA Talks James "Chip" Coldren and Eric Talbert explore findings as part of the Opioid Data Initiative. The two discuss collaborating with communities across the country and point out that every jurisdiction they engaged with was hard at work trying to solve this national epidemic. Chip and Eric agree that more data sharing between different stakeholders could help better address the problem. Finally, Eric lays out the next steps in CNA's research including social network analyses to better understand drug activity within communities and where interventions would be most successful.

is an Associate Director within CNA's Institute for Public Research. His research focuses on medical surge capacity and capability within the larger context of public health emergency preparedness and response. Eric has 14 years of experience performing public health operations research and program evaluation services for Federal, State, and local government agencies. Related Materials