Planning special needs populations

Emergency Planning Special Needs Populations G197 (offered via SEMO Uaining Office)... 

Based on your knowledge of special needs planning, what questions would you ask about the region s readiness to deal with special needs populations, for example, availability of interpreters, accessible formats for information dissemination, and so forth ... 

Please describe planned study population. Choice of participants should be appropriate for the indication proposed. Subjects should not have enrolled in a clinical trial during the preceding 12 weeks. Please describe how special populations such as women of childbearing age, children and the elderly will be handled in this study. Please comment on the special need for close monitoring due to safety considerations. 

A very special warm welcome and thanks go to Elizabeth A. Davis, JD, Ed.M and her colleagues Alan Clive, PhD, Jane A. Kushma, PhD, and Jennifer Mincin, MPA. Elizabeth is the Founder and President of Elizabeth Ann Davis Associates (http //www.eadassociates. com/) and is a nationally recognized expert/advocate for vulnerable populations. It was extremely important to me to add a substantive piece on planning for and responding to the needs of high-risk, high-vulnerability populations in this edition of the book, and Alan, Elizabeth, Jane, and Jennifer provided a superb chapter on this topic (and in a relatively short time frame). My sincere thanks and admiration go out to each of you for your work. 

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