The role of WHO and recommendations for national measures before and during pandemics

PLANS CANADIENS

Canada Le 12 février 2004

Santé Canada présente le Plan canadien de lutte contre la pandémie d'influenza

OTTAWA - L'honorable Pierre S. Pettigrew, ministre fédéral de la Santé, et l'honorable Carolyn Bennett, ministre d'État (Santé publique), ont rendu public aujourd'hui le Plan canadien de lutte contre la pandémie d'influenza. Élaboré en collaboration avec les provinces et les territoires, ce plan conjoint décrit la façon dont le Canada se préparera et interviendra en vue d'une épidémie de grippe.

• Agence de Sante Publique du Canada

• British Colombia
• British Colombia
• British Columbia - Preparing for Pandemic Flu - Forum for Business from the Government of British Columbia, CA
• University of British Columbia Centre for Disease Control
• Fraser Health Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Plan

• Manitoba’s Pandemic Influenza Plan
• Download Manitoba's Pandemic Influenza Plan
• Manitoba Emergency Measures Organisation,
• Manitoba Emergency Measures Organization Website

• Government of Nunavut (inuinnaqtun, english, français)

• Ontario Health Plan for an Influenza Pandemic (June 2005)
• Pandemic Influenza Planning in the City of Toronto
• Region of Peel Pandemic Influenza Planning (March 2005)
• Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit Contingency Plan for Pandemic Influenza (May 2005)

• Institut national de santé publique du Québec - Dossier influenza

PLANS FAMILIALES ET INDIVIDUELS

Previous pandemics have lasted 1-2 years, occuring in waves each lasting several months. The US Government is recommending that people have at least 3 months of food, water and necessary household supplies on hand in the event of a pandemic. Prepare for as long as you can afford.
Retain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, and at the same time have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be. 
                                                                                               

• How To Prepare for a Pandemic and other extended disasters   99 pages William Stewart
  
• Disaster Supplies Kit   4 pages  * After a disaster, local officials and relief workers will be on the scene, but they cannot reach everyone immediately. You could get help in hours, or it may take days. Would your family be prepared to cope with the emergency until help arrives?
  
• Preparedness Brochure    16 pages     *We must have the tools and plans in place to make it on our own, at least for a period of time, no matter where we are when disaster strikes. Just like having a working smoke detector, preparing for the unexpected makes sense. Get ready now.US Dept Homeland Security
  
• Are YOU ready for disaster? AlphaGeek's five part survival guide  If you put off your planning until things start happening, it's far too late to make much of a difference. Everyone needs to... Assess their risks. Plan to survive. Make emergency preparations.
• FluWikie preparedness page 
• Preparing for Disaster for People with Disabilities and other Special Needs    20 pages.
• Disaster Preparedness Are An In Depth Guide To Citizen Preparedness    204 pages. Disasters can strike quickly and without warning. While a disaster is frightening for adults, it can be traumatic for children if they don’t know what to do.
• Preparing for an Emergency: Home Heating in an Emergency At some time you may face a heating emergency — when your home heating system is inoperative for hours or days. At that critical time you must decide how to meet the emergency, either with an alternative source of heat or by seeking shelter elsewhere. University of Missouri Extension
• Doctors Without Borders Refugee Camp Exhibit An estimated 33 million people have been forced to flee their homes and seek refuge due to war or violence. This interactive educational website describes what to expect. It describes the struggle to find food, water, shelter, waste disposal, coping skills, human rights. Click on the Learn More icons to find useful information. Doctors Without Borders
•  HomeSecurityInformation.com
• CrimeDoctor.com  Recommended books for emergency preparedness include... The Big Book of Self-Reliant Living by Walter Szykitka  Dare To Prepare by Holly Deyo  Patriots: How To Survive The Coming Collapse by James Wesley Rawles When Technology Fails,  A Manual for Self-Reliance and Planetary Survival by Matthew Stein
• Pandemic Influenza Planning: A Guide for Individuals and Families
• Blueprint for Pandemic Flu Preparedness Planning

PLANS COMMUNAUTÉS

• An excellent list of things to consider.  FluWiki  Community
• The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an impartial, neutral and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of war and internal violence and to provide them with assistance. It directs and coordinates the international relief activities conducted by the Movement in situations of conflict. It also endeavours to prevent suffering by promoting and strengthening humanitarian law and universal humanitarian principles. American Red Cross
•  Community Emergency Response Team (CERT)The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT)   FEMA Independant Study Courses
• Citizen Corps Volunteer organization to make communities safer and more prepared to respond to hazardous situations. It provides opportunities for people to participate in a range of measures to make their families, homes, and communities safer from the threats of crime, terrorism, public health emergencies, and hazards of all types.
• Emergency Field Handbook for UNICEF Staff    418 pages  United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
  

PLANS D'AFFAIRES

• Don’t Fear “Fear” Or Panic “Panic”: An Economist’s View of Pandemic Flu - BMO Nesbitt Burns, October 2005
• Nesbitt Burns update
• International Monetary Fund
• IMF report page 37-39 of 60
• Modeling the economic impact of pandemic influenza in the United States: Implications for setting priorities for intervention Martin I. Meltzer, Ph.D., Nancy J. Cox, Ph.D., Keiji Fukuda, MD Date of this draft: April 30, 1999
• Global macroeconomic consequences of pandemic influenza Professor Warwick McKibbin
• Avian Flu Pandemic Response Plan Template Extensive, freely distributable business continuity plan template
• Flu Pandemic Contingency planning and business continuity workshop Jan 12–13, 2006 Feinstein International Famine Center Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy Tufts University
• Generic Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Plan for small business planning
• Business Planning for Pandemic Influenza: Summit Feb 14-15
  • CIDRAP business page
  • News story from the conference: Sec. Leavitt warns companies expecting feds to “come to their rescue are going to be sorely disappointed.”
• Canadian Manufacturers And Exporters
  • Continuity Planning Guide for Canadian Business .pdf
• OHDEN’s (Occupational Health Disaster Expert Network) compendium of hundreds of resources for Occupational Health aspects of Pandemic or Avian Flu. Subsets of collected links are Federal, International, Local and Reference Materials. Selected workplace pandemic plans are available for download in the local section. OHDEN itself is still in development, and is managed through a group creating an electronic network for Occupational Physicians, Occupational Health Nurses, Hygienists and Safety Professionals in preparing for and responding to terror- or naturally-related disasters.
• Preparing employers for an avian flu pandemic from Mercer Consulting
• A well tested method for doing Business Continuity Assurance Planning (BCAP) from New & Improved
• Corporate Leadership Council Managing Avian Flu Outbreaks: HR’s role
• London Prepared (a UK government website)
  • For businesses with less than 10 staff
  • For businesses with between 10 and 50 staff
  • For businesses with between 50 and 250 staff
  • For businesses with in excess of 250 staff
• Continuity Forum (Independent, Impartial, non-commercial support and advice on all aspects of Pandemic Planning )
• Microbix Pandemic Response Plan → A company’s pandemic plan, updated Jan 2006
• Fluready - Australia → A new Australian website on business continuity management for Avian Influenza. Includes a 58 page white paper with information resources for protecting staff, a spreadsheet to assist organisations in their planning and a regular weblog with updates and webforum to share information on planning for avian influenza.
• Leslie Whittet on business continuity during an avian flu pandemic
• W3J - Avian Influenza and Business Continuity Planning
• The Business Guide to Pandemic Bird Flu Preparedness
• US Government Business Pandemic Influenza Planning Checklist
• Crisis management plan for pandemic flu Reserve Bank of New Zealand. November 2005 (pdf) → News story about the Reserve Bank’s plan
• It’s Not Flu As Usual - Trust for America’s Health, June 2005
• Shell NZ Workplace Pandemic Plan (pdf)
• Government of New Zealand - Business Continuity Planning Guide → Has excellent timelines describing the planned government response and suggested business actions during an outbreak. Contemplates workplace absentee rates up to 50% for two weeks at the peak of a pandemic wave.
• NZ Dept of Labor Q&A
• King County, WA - Business Multi-media → Powerpoint and video presentations from an October 3 meeting for businesses sponsored by King County Public Health (State of Washington, USA).
• FEMA Emergency Management Guide for Business and Industry → A Step-by-Step Approach to Emergency Planning, Response and Recovery for Companies of All Sizes. 67 pages, pdf
• ASIS Business Continuity Guidelines → A Practical Approach for Emergency Preparedness, Crisis Management, and Disaster Recovery. 48 pages, pdf
• Avian Flu Continuity Kit → A toolkit designed to assist business with avian flu continuity planning
• Business Continuity - A Primer Paul Martin 22 November 2004
• Pandemic Preparedness Survey → Online interactive quiz for businesses to assess how urgent a variety of business continuity plans are for their company and how well their company is responding. A sales tool for consulting services by Kroll and Marsh, but a worth-while consciousness-raising exercise for businesses
• Planning for Pandemic → Interview with former NYC Health Dept. CIO on corporate pandemic planning
• blog thread on business continuity, emphasizing strategies with economic benefits
• Pandemic planning — ultimate collaboration → the only way businesses can prepare is through unprecedented internal and external collaboration, but the benefits of this focus on collaboration technologies and attitudes will endure long afterward.
• Wholesale and Retail Food Company Brainstorms for a Pandemic → ‘- One of the key recommendations of this task force is the necessity to share this work with the industry. A good webcast relating to this document is available from AMR research called “Supply Chain Risk Management and the Avian Flu: Is Your Supply Chain Ready?” from Thursday, February 23, 2006.
• Example Pandemic Preparedness Plan For A Small Non-Profit 2 July 2006, by Okieman
• Business Continuity Guidelines 48 pages ASIS International A Practical Approach for Emergency Preparedness, Crisis Management, and Disaster Recovery: A guideline outlining a series of interrelated processes and activities, including readiness, prevention, response, recovery/resumption, testing and training, and evaluation and maintenance, that will assist in creating, assessing, and sustaining a comprehensive plan for use in the event of a crisis that threatens the viability and continuity of an organization. 
• Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)  A Step-by-Step Approach to Emergency Planning, Response and Recovery for Companies  FEMA - PDF
• Emergency Management Guide for Business and Industry   67 pages Every year emergencies take their toll on business and industry -- in lives and dollars.

PLANS ÉCOLES

In the event of a pandemic, schools may be ordered closed in order to prevent the spread of illness. Homeschooling may help to minimize the interruption of learning.

• National Home Education Network  The National Home Education Network exists to encourage and facilitate the vital grassroots work of state and local homeschooling organizations and individuals by providing information, fostering networking and promoting public relations on a national level.
• Home Education Magazine   On this site you will find bloggers bringing you up-to-date homeschooling information, news and views, free online newsletters, networking lists, and selections from Home Education Magazine, including articles, interviews, columnists, resources, reviews and more!
• Core Knowledge  The “Core Knowledge” movement is an educational reform based on the premise that a grade-by-grade core of common learning is necessary to ensure a sound and fair elementary education. E.D. Hirsch Jr. has written a series of books starting with What Your Kindergartner Needs To Know (through grade 8). As you explore the website, you will find lesson plans, articles, and many other resources to help you use the Core Knowledge Preschool Sequence and Core Knowledge Sequence K–8 in your classroom and school. There are free Spanish translations available of the Grader Books for Grades K-3 available in pdf format (see Resources section. )
• World Wide Learn  World’s Largest Online Directory of Education Professionals and individuals who need flexible education programs look to World Wide Learn for trusted access to a wide variety of e-learning solutions. These include online courses, accredited degree programs, professional continuing education, and learning resources in 376 subject areas offered by educational institutions, companies and individuals from all over the world.
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) OpenCourseWare   MIT OCW is a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the world. Is a publication of MIT course materials, 1,250 courses published as of December 2005. Does not require any registration. Is not a degree-granting or certificate-granting activity. Does not provide access to MIT faculty.
• United States Distance Learning Association  The United States Distance Learning Association is a non-profit organization formed in 1987 and is located in Boston, Massachusetts. USDLA promotes the development and application of distance learning for education and training and serves the needs of the distance learning community by providing advocacy, information, networking and opportunity. Distance education and training constituencies served include pre-K-12 education, higher and continuing education, home schooling as well as business, corporate, military, government, and telehealth markets.
• Distance Education Clearinghouse  The Distance Education Clearinghouse is a comprehensive and widely recognized Web site bringing together distance education information from Wisconsin, national, and international sources.
• Practical Information on Crisis Planning For Schools and Communities   146 pages. The midst of a crisis is not the time to start figuring out who ought to do what. At that moment, everyone involved— from top to bottom—should know the drill and know each other.Mitigation/Prevention addresses what schools and districts can do to reduce or eliminate risk to life and property. Preparedness focuses on the process of planning for the worst-case scenario.
  Response is devoted to the steps to take during a crisis.
  Recovery deals with how to restore the learning and teaching environment after a crisis.  US Dept of Education
• Pandemic Flu School Action Kit Contra Costa County, CA

PLANS NATIONAUX

Organisation Mondiale de la Santé - WHO/CDS/CSR/EDC/
Influenza Pandemic Plan. The Role of WHO and Guidelines for National and Regional Planning

Europe
European Influenza Surveillance Scheme (EISS) EISS aims to contribute to a reduction in morbidity and mortality due to influenza in Europe

France
Le plan, en chantier depuis plus d'un an, impliquant plusieurs administrations et ministères (Intérieur, Défense, Recherche, Éducation nationale...), n'a pas été encore rendu public dans son intégralité. Selon certains experts, Matignon se serait opposé à la diffusion d'informations pouvant alarmer la population, en l'absence de l'imminence d'un risque. Cyrille Louis et Martine Perez, Le Figaro Le 14 octobre 2004

Australia
A framework for an Australian influenza pandemic plan

• Australian Management Plan for Pandemic Influenza - June 2005 (PDF 1111 KB)
• Australian Management Plan for Pandemic Influenza - Frequently Asked Questions (PDF 274 KB)

Brazil
Vigilancia Epidemiologica da Influenza no Brasil 1999

• Portugese Part 1 (.pdf - 938k)
• Portugese Part 2 (.pdf -963k)
• Annex (.pdf - 460k) Portugese

Czech Republic
Action Plan for Pandemic Influenza Caused by a New Virus Variant

Hungary
Hungarian National plan for the pandemic preparedness to influenza

Ireland
A Model Plan for Influenza Pandemic Preparedness

Japan
Report on new influeza strain preparedness measures

• Part 1 (.pdf - 1246k)
  
• Part 2 (.pdf - 1434k)

Netherlands
Scenario analysis of the expected number of hospitalisations and deaths due to pandemic influenza in the Netherlands

• Report
• Appendix VII. Figures

New Zealand Influenza Pandemic Action Plan

Norway
The Norwegian national influenza pandemic preparedness plan

• Norwegian
• (.pdf - 170k)

Slovak Republic
The national plan for pandemic influenza in the Slovak Republic

South Africa
A concept plan to prepare for the contingency of a major global pandemic of influenza

Suisse
Pandémie de grippe

• L'Office fédéral de la santé publique (Francais)
• Pandémie de grippe Analyse et Recommandations Pour La Suisse - Un rapport du groupe de travail influenza (Plan en cas de pandemie)

United Kingdom
The Public Health Laboratory Service plan for pandemic influenza The Public Health Laboratory Service plan for pandemic influenza

United States

• NYC Panflu Preparedness Plan
• NGA Center Releases Pandemic Primer
• US HHS Pandemic Planning Update #2 Jun 29, 2006
• Media Attitudes and Coverage of Pandemic Flu Trust for America’s Health Report
• National Pandemic Implementation Plan
• Nature magazine: models of mitigating a pandemic
• Blueprint for Pandemic Flu Preparedness Planning
• Big 10 Pan Flu Planning conference
• and the accompanying news release from Secretary Leavitt.
• Preparing For A Pandemic - Scientific American
• Department of Health and Human Services - Draft Pandemic Influenza Response and Preparedness Plan
• Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Action Plan for the United States: 2002 Update
• Influenza Pandemic Preparedness State Plans