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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Standing Committee on Health Threats Resilience." Institute of Medicine. 2012. Building a Resilient Workforce: Opportunities for the Department of Homeland Security: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13380.
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Standing Committee on Health Threats Resilience

WILLIAM RAUB (Chair), Retired, Senior Advisor to the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services

JOSEPH BARBERA, Co-Director, Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management, The George Washington University

LISA GORDON HAGERTY, President, LEG Incorporated

FRED HENRETIG, Director, Clinical Toxicology and Director, Poison Control Center, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

ROBERT S. HOFFMAN, Director, New York Poison Control Center

RICHARD C. LARSON, Mitsui Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Engineering Systems Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

RICARDO MARTINEZ, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Emory School of Medicine

SCOTT A. MUGNO, Managing Director of Corporate Safety, Health, and Fire Prevention, FedEx Express

JAMES B. PEAKE, Ret., U.S. Army, Austin, TX

MONICA SCHOCH-SPANA, Senior Associate, Center for Biosecurity of UPMC, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

JAMES SCHWARTZ, Fire Chief, Arlington, Virginia, Fire Department

KAREN SEXTON, Director of Nursing Research, Staff Development/ Practice Improvement, University of Kentucky

MERRIE SPAETH, President, Spaeth Communications

DAVID N. SUNDWALL, Professor of Public Health, University of Utah School of Medicine

CATHERINE ZURN, Retired, Orange County Sheriff-Coroner Department

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Standing Committee on Health Threats Resilience." Institute of Medicine. 2012. Building a Resilient Workforce: Opportunities for the Department of Homeland Security: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13380.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Standing Committee on Health Threats Resilience." Institute of Medicine. 2012. Building a Resilient Workforce: Opportunities for the Department of Homeland Security: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13380.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Standing Committee on Health Threats Resilience." Institute of Medicine. 2012. Building a Resilient Workforce: Opportunities for the Department of Homeland Security: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13380.
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Every job can lead to stress. How people cope with that stress can be influenced by many factors. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employs a diverse staff that includes emergency responders, border patrol agents, federal air marshals, and policy analysts. These employees may be exposed to traumatic situations and disturbing information as part of their jobs. DHS is concerned that long-term exposure to stressors may reduce individual resilience, negatively affect employees' well-being, and deteriorate the department's level of operation readiness.

To explore DHS workforce resilience, the Institute of Medicine hosted two workshops in September and November 2011. The September workshop focused on DHS's operational and law enforcement personnel, while the November workshop concentrated on DHS policy and program personnel with top secret security clearances. The workshop brought together an array of experts from various fields including resilience research, occupation health psychology, and emergency response. Building a Resilient Workforce: Opportunities for the Department of Homeland Security: Workshop Summary:

  1. Defines workforce resilience and its benefits such as increased operational readiness and long-term cost savings for the specified population;
  2. Identifies work-related stressors faced by DHS workers, and gaps in current services and programs;
  3. Prioritizes key areas of concern; and
  4. Identifies innovative and effective worker resilience programs that could potentially serve as models for relevant components of the DHS workforce.

The report presents highlights from more than 20 hours of presentations and discussions from the two workshops, as well as the agendas and a complete listing of the speakers, panelists, and planning committee members.

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