I am the co-director of the Center along with Richard D. Clover, MD, Dean of the School of Public Health/Health Information Sciences.
Awarded in August 2002, CDC Cooperative Agreement U90/CCU422056 (Ronald Atlas, PhD, Principal Investigator) established the CDBB as a coordinator for research, education, and service on the early recognition and response to potential acts of biological terrorism in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and surrounding states. In the first year, the total number of persons (i.e., physicians, nurses, hospital/triage staff, EMS, Transportation Security Administration personnel, Homeland Security agents, social workers, psychologists, faculty, medical/nursing students, health department staff, and the general public) trained through the CDBB was 4,098. Additional presentations at national meetings reached thousands more, albeit in abbreviated forms. The cooperative agreement was renewed in 2003, with the possibility of additional funding in 2004.
Website: http://www.sphis.louisville.edu/cdbb_home.cfm.