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DRIVe - Solving Sepsis

DRIVe - Solving Sepsis

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This single frame video begins with the following introductory text floating horizontally out "Solve sepsis in our lifetime? Premieres June 5 #DRIVeinnovation" followed by the DRIVe logo on a gray background. The animation continues with ASPR's four pillars logo, the Department of Health and Human Services as well as the ASPR logo. All appearing from left to right in the lower part of the frame. The animation concludes with a green swoosh graphic wrapping clockwise from the bottom of "D" in the DRIVe logo to the top of "R" to form a half circle with the byline "Transforming Health Security" appears sliding from left to right under the DRIVe logo with a dramatic "swoosh" sound effect.

DRIVe - Personal Devices

DRIVe - Personal Devices

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This single frame video begins with the following introductory text floating horizontally out "Personal Devices that know BEFORE you get sick? Premieres June 5 #DRIVeinnovation" followed by the DRIVe logo on a gray background. The animation continues with ASPR's four pillars logo, the Department of Health and Human Services as well as the ASPR logo. All appearing from left to right in the lower part of the frame. The animation concludes with a green swoosh graphic wrapping clockwise from the bottom of "D" in the DRIVe logo to the top of "R" to form a half circle with the byline "Transforming Health Security" appears sliding from left to right under the DRIVe logo with a dramatic "swoosh" sound effect.

Project BioShield: Partnering to Build a Portfolio of Medical Countermeasures

Project BioShield: Partnering to Build a Portfolio of Medical Countermeasures

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[The video begins with BARDA Deputy Director Gary Disbrow,Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, explaining how BARDA is working with private industry to build a robust portfolio of medical countermeasures under Project BioShield.]

Gary Disbrow, PhD: The commitment of Project BioShield shows what the government and private industry can do together. BARDA has supported 27 products under Project BioShield. We've added 15 products to the Strategic National Stockpile. And, ten of those products have earned FDA approval with others available under FDA's Emergency Use Authority. In 15 years, that is unprecedented. And with recent legislation and new initiatives, we're poised to build on that success for years to come.

[The video ends.]

BARDA Ventures: Sandeep Patel

BARDA Ventures: Sandeep Patel

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[The video features Dr. Sandeep Patel, Director - Division of Research, Innovation, and Ventures (DRIVe), introducing BARDA Ventures. DRIVe is a division of the Biomedical Advanced R&D Authority (BARDA) under the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.]

Sandeep Patel, PhD.: BARDA Ventures expands the range of investment tools that BARDA has available to advance novel medical countermeasure development, by using, for the first time in HHS, ASPR, and BARDA, the tools that the venture capital community uses. BARDA Ventures will help the technologies we know are critical to public health emergency preparedness and response, find a path towards commercialization, and at the same time, invite matching investments from the private investment community. We've partnered with the Global Health Investment Corporation, a non-profit with an extensive track record of successfully bringing new global health products to market through venture capital partnerships with a focus on investing for impact.

[The video ends with Department of Health and Human Services logo and disclaimer "Produced at U.S. taxpayer expense".]

BARDA Ventures: Justin Yang

BARDA Ventures: Justin Yang

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[The video features G. Justin Yang, Director - Catalyst Office, Division of Research, Innovation, and Ventures (DRIVe), introducing BARDA Ventures. DRIVe is a division of the Biomedical Advanced R&D Authority (BARDA) under the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.]

G. Justin Yang: Just as pathogens never cease to evolve and adapt, so must BARDA. We need to always look for and nurture great ideas wherever we can and meet entrepreneurs wherever they are. Over a decade of successful public-private partnerships has taught us that it takes much more than a check to bring lifesaving medical countermeasures to people. With BARDA Ventures we bring that expertise to help make entrepreneurs successful so we can be prepared when the next public emergency hits.

This is a self-sustaining partnership, with proceeds recycled back into the fund for additional investments. Through this partnership BARDA is planting seeds to grow and nurture new technologies to maturation, so we can plant more again.

[The video ends with Department of Health and Human Services logo and disclaimer "Produced at U.S. taxpayer expense".]

BARDA Ventures: Gary Disbrow

BARDA Ventures: Gary Disbrow

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[The video features Gary Disbrow, the Director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), introduces BARDA Ventures.]

Gary Disbrow: We are excited to announce BARDA Ventures, an effort to better ensure that a continuous pipeline of the most innovative technologies are available the moment our nation needs them, to prepare for and respond to pandemics and other public health emergencies. At BARDA, we have a track record of success making available new vaccines, therapeutics, diagnostics –and other medical countermeasures, through public-private partnerships.

Our experience –including the response to the COVID-19 pandemic -highlights the need for a robust medical countermeasure pipeline that brings forward the most promising technologies during AND in between emergencies. BARDA Ventures enables us to partner with the investment community to support innovative technologies to solve health security challenges today and in the future.

[The video ends with Department of Health and Human Services logo and disclaimer "Produced at U.S. taxpayer expense".]

Patient Surge Strategies: NYC Health + Hospitals 2018

Patient Surge Strategies: NYC Health + Hospitals 2018

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(Dr. Sean Studer and Dr. Syra Madad, seated left-to-right in a nondescript room and the camera sees both of them. Dr. Madad is holding a microphone and speaks first.)

I'm Dr. Syra Madad and I'm New York City Health and Hospital's director of systems-wide special pathogens program and as you know, we are in the middle of a severe flu season. I engaged ASPR TRACIE (pronounced ǽspər trési), knowing that they are the gateway of various resources for emergency preparedness. I reached out to see if they had any templates or tools related to flu seasonal management. Now I'm going to hand it off to Dr. Sean Studer to provide some more information.

(Dr. Madad hands the microphone to Dr. Sean Studer).

Thanks, Syra.

I'm Dr. Sean Studer, the deputy chief medical officer for NYC Health and Hospitals and really what we were looking to learn is how to set up a surge space.

(Dr. Madad is nodding head to indicate the affirmative or agreement with Dr. Studer)

We have abilities already to flex within our buildings--staff spaces that are not fully staffed--but leaving the building and working in tents, working in pop-up structures, is not something we have a depth of experience yet, so we're seeking the ability to do that and learning from others.

Hopefully we can skip some of the early mistakes we might otherwise make.

(Dr. Studer and Dr. Madad nod heads indicating agreement with Dr. Studer's comment. Dr. Studer and Dr. Madad look off camera to the moderator who asks the following question, also off camera)

Moderator question: in terms of what you've learned since starting this endeavor, what are some of the first things you'll do to implement the surge facility? (End question.)

(Dr. Studer nods his head and begins speaking. Dr. Madad also nods her head throughout Dr Studer talking).

One of the first things for us is we would like to try to do it sooner—we don't want to be forced into it at the moment it's absolutely essential. We'd like to try to get it up and running and really pilot it a bit with our staff so even if it's not needed at a certain facility, that might be the time to actually try it, so when it is needed we've been through some of the lumps and bumps and can have a smooth process.

(Dr. Studer hands the microphone to Dr. Madad).

We were able to engage different healthcare systems like MedStar and Grady through the help of ASPR TRACIE to look at some best practices and any tips and recommendations they have for us.

(Dr. Madad hands the microphone to Dr. Studer).

Yeah, the advantage for working with Lehigh Valley is the proximity to us, the fact that they're quite experienced in doing this year over year, and that when we set up our space, we might actually be able to get them to come in and give us some real-time advice about what we could do better.

(Both speakers look at each other and nod and look at the camera and nod.)

The camera fades to a graphic with a gray background and the ASPR and ASPR TRACIE logos on the bottom that says: Contact ASPR TRACIE: ASPRtracie.hhs.gov, 844-5-TRACIE, askasprtracie@hhs.gov. There is no audio over this graphic.

The image changes to another image – black background with a white HHS logo that says *Produced at U.S. taxpayer expense. With audio that says: Produced at U.S. taxpayer expense by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

 

Patient Surge Strategies 2018 Lehigh Valley Health System

Patient Surge Strategies 2018 Lehigh Valley Health System

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(Video begins with Ryan Hay seated in a chair in a nondescript room with the bottom of a logo just visible at the top of the screen on the wall behind the speaker. The logo is black and white and says "Lehigh Valley Health System" in the middle and "Emergency Operations" around the bottom. Ryan Hay is looking directly at the camera and the video continues this way the entire time)

Hello my name is Ryan Hay, and I'm the director of emergency preparedness here at Lehigh Valley Health Network. We've, year-over-year, used surge spaces such as tents and other areas in our facilities during influenza or during significant periods of large patient surge and patient volume.

A couple of things we found is really the biggest key to success and this is collaboration--working with our hospital medicine partners, our infectious disease partners--standing up that incident command structure early, even if you don't think you need the system set up immediately, but keeping a finger on that pulse and making sure that you're aware of what's going on and that everyone's kind of got good situational awareness and a good common operating picture so that when it comes time to set it up, everyone's aware of the risks associated with it, everyone's aware of the things that need to be done in a timely effort to get it established.

This really results in a system that's set up for good patient safety, good patient care; it gets patients seen very quickly, it gets them kind of out, and about it really decompresses our emergency department in these critical surge periods.

Unfortunately, we've had to use it about three times in the last ten years or so, and fortunately for us we use it for planned events and event medical deployments throughout the year so the staff's keenly aware of how to operate in these environments. They've used the systems, they've used the kind of austere medical equipment that we sometimes have to implement or some of the different protocols or processes so when we actually have to implement it for real during a surge period, it's kind of second nature to them. Having that kind of annual exercising of it in the semi real world event during a planned event and having that collaboration is really key.

The camera fades to a graphic with a gray background and the ASPR and ASPR TRACIE logos on the bottom that says: Contact ASPR TRACIE: ASPRtracie.hhs.gov, 844-5-TRACIE, askasprtracie@hhs.gov. There is no audio over this graphic.

The image changes to another image – black background with a white HHS logo that says *Produced at U.S. taxpayer expense. With audio that says: Produced at U.S. taxpayer expense by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

ASPR TRACIE: A Year in Review

ASPR TRACIE: A Year in Review

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[The video begins with an animated whiteboard. The text is animated on the whiteboard, showing the three domains of TRACIE: Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange. The TRACIE logo animates on screen.]

Male Narrator: Every bold idea starts somewhere. ASPR TRACIE started on a whiteboard, where we conceived a fluid healthcare information gateway with three distinct domains, ensuring all stakeholders easy access to cutting-edge technical resources, expert assistance, and a thriving information exchange, for whenever they need it most.

(Descriptive Text: Animated graphics shows that there were approximately 800 Training Technical Assistance requests, about 350 Subject Matter Expert Cadre Members, roughly 1750 Information Exchange Member, and approximately 6000 ASPR TRACIE Distribution List Members.)

Male Narrator: So, thank you to our subject matter experts, our partners, and you. Together we will continue to answer the call of healthcare preparedness every day.

[The video concludes with the ASPR and ASPR TRACIE logos appear, with the URL asprtracie.hhs.gov. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services logo appears with the message "Produced at U.S. Taxpayer expense". The video ends.]

ASPR TRACIE: User Comments After the First Year

ASPR TRACIE: User Comments After the First Year

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[The video begins with Shelly Schwedhelm speaking. The logos for ASPR, TRACIE and HHS. Various people provide testimonials in commemoration of ASPR TRACIE's Anniversary.]

Shelly Schwedhelm, Executive Director of Emergency Preparedness, Nebraska Medicine: I wanted to say happy anniversary to ASPR TRACIE. We have been able to really partner between NETEC and ASPR TRACIE and leverage, really, each other's core competencies, in that NETEC has been able to bring subject matter expertise to the table and partner that with ASPR TRACIE's strong logistics support and I think we have a great partnership and a lot to look forward to in the future.

Michael Melton, Emergency Logistics Coordinator, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health: On the occasion of TRACIE's first birthday I'd comment that this resource has been very beneficial to me and my professional activities. I've used the technical resources area and downloaded a number of their topic collection lists; very impressed with the must-read sections of these lists. I've also used the Ask TRACIE feature for a couple of queries that produced excellent responses. And finally, I've been active in the information exchange area with both postings related to MCM and also having their first private topic area related to MCM inventory management. I've found the assistance from the personnel assigned to TRACIE to be extremely professional and effective, and they've treated me like a friend which I very much appreciate.

(Descriptive Text: A text quote from Mary Russell, Emergency Services, Boca Raton Regional Hospital, "TRACIE is one place you can go to find evidence-based, foundational articles on a number of emergency preparedness, response and recovery – on both general and hazard-specific topics.")

Deb Roepke, Executive Director, Arizona Coyote Crisis Collaborative: On behalf of Coyote Crisis Collaborative in Arizona, I applaud TRACIE's leadership and staff for the prompt and thorough research they've done to benefit our Arizona partners. TRACIE staff and leadership coordinated a meeting with a mental health expert to help us design a mental health disaster response plan for the central region. For our healthcare coalitions, they sent us information to help us develop a 96 hour sustainability plan and a training and exercise calendar. Congratulations on an outstanding program and on your first year of service.

Aaron Resnick, Planning & PR, Northwest Healthcare Response Network: The interactions we've had with TRACIE staff to date have been invaluable. The staff and experts are extremely responsive to our requests, and ask questions to better understand the issues we're facing. The content and speed of their responses have been exemplary. Our coalition relies on TRACIE's expertise for important projects such as developing a regional healthcare disaster equipment supply list. We consider TRACIE an extremely valuable resource and a terrific partner in much of our work.

(Descriptive Text: A text quote from Deborah French, Director, Hospital E P Program, Colorado Hospital Association,"TRACIE is an amazing resource for anyone who currently works in or wants to know more about healthcare preparedness.")

Elizabeth Jarrett, Program Analyst, HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR): When a disaster strikes, there are a lot of blanks that most people need to fill in. You need to have great disaster health information to help you fill in those blanks; to help you respond to the disaster more effectively. ASPR TRACIE can connect you with those resources. If you plan effectively before a disaster strikes, you've got fewer blanks to start with. ASPR TRACIE does a phenomenal job of helping with that sort of planning as well. So if you need great, reliable, peer-reviewed disaster resources, if you need somebody to help walk you through them, check out ASPR TRACIE. They have phenomenal people, they have phenomenal resources, and they're a great place to go to help with all of your disaster health information needs.

[The ASPR TRACIE logo appears. The video ends.]

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