National Pandemic Summit
From May 23-24, 2019, Nebraska Chief Justice Michael Heavican hosted the National Pandemic Summit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, home to the country’s largest biocontainment unit and which treated three ebola patients in 2014. The summit brought court leaders, public health officials, legislators, and executive branch officials together to start a collective conversation on how states need to plan and prepare for a pandemic, which often includes quarantines that raise many potential legal issues. Twenty-five states and three territories sent teams. The summit, the first-of-its-kind, was funded through a grant from the State Justice Institute and staffed by the National Center for State Courts. Below is a list of materials provided at the Summit, which are available for download.
- Crisis On The Horizon: Navigating The Storm (Taylor Wilson, Sr. Media Relations Coordinator)
- Health Care Preparedness for Ebola and Infectious Disease (Robert Kadlec, MD, MTM&H, MS)
- Isolation and Quarantine: A Primer (Ted Cieslak MD)
- Maine Preparedness (Hon. Charles C. LaVerdiere)
- National Pandemic Summit Exercise: COOP – Continuity of Operations & Business Continuity Planning (Rachel Lookadoo, JD and Keith Hansen)
- National Pandemic Summit Exercise: Isolation and Quarantine (Rachel Lookadoo, JD and Ted Cieslak, MD)
- Order in the case of State of Maine v. Kaci Hickox
- Preparing for a Pandemic: An Emergency Response Benchbook and Operational Guidebook for State Court Judges and Administrators
- Quarantine Station Operations at US Ports of Entry (Arnold Vang, DrPH, MSPA, MPH, PA)
- Quarantine Talk (Patrick LaRochelle)
- State Law in a Pandemic Response (Matthew Penn, JD, MLIS)
- A Strategic View of the United States Quarantine System