Highlights

Program Overview

CIDRAP's 2009 Keeping the World Working During the H1N1 Pandemic: Protecting Employee Health, Critical Operations, and Customer Relations Summit features internationally recognized infectious disease and business preparedness experts as well as high-profile government officials and corporate leaders with responsibility for preparing their organizations for the next wave of the novel H1N1 pandemic.

The summit also features timely breakout sessions focused on real-word challenges designed to help you:

  • Connect you with peers from other organizations preparing for the next stage of the H1N1 pandemic
  • Benchmark your current efforts
  • Learn new strategies that can be applied quickly in your workplace

Please note that, due to venue constraints, the number of registrations is strictly limited and will be accepted on a space-available basis. To secure your spot, register now.

Registration

The Summit registration fee is $1,195 and includes admittance to all plenary and breakout sessions, refreshments at morning and afternoon breaks, as well as breakfasts and lunches each day. Dinners are not included.

A limited number of registrations are available at a reduced rate of $495 for those employed by government agencies or 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organizations. To inquire about eligibility for, and availability of, this reduced rate, please call Summit Registration Headquarters toll-free at: 1-800-351-0232.

General Session Topics

  • Keeping Employees Healthy and Borders Open: The Recipe for Responding to H1N1
  • The H1N1 Pandemic: Disease Reality and Business Execution
  • Responding to H1N1 with Vaccines and Antivirals: Cutting through the Fog
  • Results of the Harvard Opinion Research Survey on Business Preparedness and Pandemic Influenza
  • Federal Guidance: the Rationale behind the Changes
  • Preventing Transmission in the Workplace: Discerning Fact from Fiction
  • Benchmarking Pandemic Preparedness: How Your Investments and Policies Compare
  • H1N1 in Mexico and the Southern Hemisphere: the Business Experience

Breakout Sessions

  • Supply Chain Dependencies and What to Do About Them: Identifying and Addressing Gaps
  • Managing Travel During the H1N1 Pandemic: Policies and "Trigger Points" for Restricting Travel
  • Will Telework Work?: Keeping Information Technology up if People Go down
  • Go to the Breakout Sessions Page for complete list

Healthcare System Track

This four-session track will address all the major issues and concerns of responding to the H1N1 pandemic in the clinical setting.

  • Supply Chain Inventory Gaps: Community Planning, Vendor Agreements, Supplies, Antivirals/Vaccines, Stockpiles
  • Maintaining Workforces: How to Address Staffing, Sick Time, and Credentialing/Privileges
  • Reducing Risk of Transmission: Protecting Employees and Patients Through Respiratory Protection, Protocols, and Compliance Monitoring
  • Communications: Keeping Employees, Patients, Public Health, Media, and the Community Informed

Human Resources Track

This four-session track will lay out a framework for how your organization should consider responding to your most critical asset—your employees—during this next wave of the H1N1 pandemic.

  • Ensuring Sick People Stay Home: How to Align Public Health Recommendations with Corporate Constraints on Pay, Sick, and Leave Policies
  • Human Resource and Communication Policies: What Other Companies Are Doing
  • Two Additional Sessions are being finalized

Space Availability

Registrations are limited by venue capacity, so please register early to secure your reservation.

Cancellation/Transfer Policy

The registration fee is non-refundable; however, you may transfer your registration to another member of your organization.

Transfers can be accepted only in writing: please fill out a transfer form and fax it to the Summit Registration Headquarters at 952-884-5680. Click here for a copy of the transfer form.

If you have any questions about the Cancellation/Transfer Policy, please contact the Summit Registration Headquarters at 1-800-351-0232 or at cidrap@metroconnections.com.