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Monica Schoch-SpanaProjects:
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The Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
EducationPh.D., Cultural Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University, 1998. About Monica Schoch-SpanaMonica Schoch-Spana, a medical anthropologist, is Senior Associate with the Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) andan Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Infectious Diseases Division of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The Biosecurity Center works to affect policy and practice in ways that lessen the illness, death, and civil disruption that would follow large-scale epidemics, whether they occur naturally or result from the use of a biological weapon. Since 1998, Schoch-Spana has led research, education and advocacy efforts to encourage greater consideration by authorities of the general public's capacity to confront bioattacks and epidemics constructively - a realm she has termed "the people's role in biodefense." She presently chairs the Working Group on Citizen Engagement in Health Emergency Planning. She formerly led the Working Group on "Governance Dilemmas" in Bioterrorism Response that issued consensus recommendations to mayors, governors, and top health officials nationwide. National advisory roles include serving on the Steering Committee of the Disaster Roundtable of the National Research Council (NRC) and with the NRC Committees on "Educational Paradigms for Homeland Security" and "Standards and Policies for Decontaminating Public Facilities Affected by Exposure to Harmful Biological Agents: How Clean is Safe?" Schoch-Spana helped establish the Center for Biosecurity of UPMC in 2003; prior to that, she worked at the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense a founding member. |
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