The Center for Global Health (CGH) in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is inviting qualified licensed Physicians and Veterinarians to join us for a hiring event on July 15th 2011 in Atlanta, GA. 
 
Please forward this email to all interested parties
Minimum Requirements to attend the event:

Other helpful experience/skills include:

Medical Officer and Veterinarian positions are authorized for Direct Hire. We’ll be recruiting for many Domestic and International Medical Officer and Veterinarian positions. More information about the Center for Global Health can be found here:
http://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/
Registration deadline May 31, 2011 5:00pm EST
If you are planning to attend and meet the minimum requirements, please fill out the registration form at:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CDC-MD_DVMRegistration
Due to space limitations on this event, CDC will be reviewing resumes of candidates as they register in advance and will screen out candidates who do not have the basic experience for the positions.
 
Once your application and resume have been received and reviewed, you will be notified via email as to whether or not you have been accepted. You will be notified by June 16th. Walk-ins will not be accepted.  Please do not make non-refundable travel arrangements until you have received the formal invitation to the event/letter of acceptance.
 
Email all inquiries to globalhealthjobs@cdc.gov

Veterinary Services Investment Act will benefit animal and public health, states AVMA
 
(Washington, DC) May 24, 2011 – Our country faces a critical shortage of veterinarians and veterinary medical services in certain areas designated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).  Legislation introduced today by U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee chairwoman Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, aims to direct resources to help solve the problems.
 
American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) President Dr. Larry Kornegay hailed the introduction of the Veterinary Services Investment Act (VSIA) as an important step toward addressing veterinary workforce needs.
 
S. 1053, the Veterinary Services Investment Act will establish a competitive grant program to develop, implement and sustain necessary veterinary medical services to those areas of the country in need.
 
“Shortages of large- and mixed-animal, as well as public health, veterinarians could have dire consequences on human and animal health, public safety, animal welfare, disease surveillance and economic development.  The USDA has worked with state animal health officials all across the country to identify areas that have dire needs,” said Dr. Kornegay. “The fact is, this legislation will directly help address these needs, ensuring the well-being of livestock and helping protect public health.”
 
“Veterinary services are critical in ensuring a strong and robust agricultural industry in Michigan, and too many rural areas are lacking adequate support,” said Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry. “This legislation will address vet shortages while also creating good-paying jobs, improving food safety and continuing to strengthen Michigan’s agricultural sector which supports one in four jobs in Michigan. As Chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, I’m focused on helping our agricultural sector to continue to grow and create jobs, and this bill will help to do that.”
 
“Veterinary care shortages, particularly in rural areas, can pose security risks for food safety, animal health and public health.  This legislation would help alleviate those shortages by awarding grants to support growth in areas where veterinary services are most needed,” said U.S. Senator Thad Cochran (R-Miss.).  “It is written to create incentives for veterinary schools and their students to work in underserved areas that currently lack important access to animal health care.”
 
According to the AVMA, there are 500 counties in the U.S. that have at least 5,000 farm animals but no veterinarians in the area to treat them.
 
“The demand for veterinarians across the United States could increase by 14 percent by 2016,” said Dr. Kornegay. “This shortage not only affects the well-being of farmers and livestock but can have negative public health consequences.”
 
The American public relies on veterinarians to safeguard their food supply and monitor the threat of zoonotic diseases (diseases transmitted between animals and people), such as avian influenza (bird flu).  Over the last 25 years, 75 percent of all the emerging diseases in people were zoonotic.
 
Specifically, the legislation will provide grants for:
 
·         Assistance for establishing or expanding veterinary practices or establishing mobile veterinary facilities;
·         Veterinarian, technician, and student recruitment;
·         Attendance at training programs in food safety or food animal medicine;
·         Establishment or expansion of accredited education, internship, residency, and fellowship programs;
·         Continuing education and extension, including tele-veterinary medicine and other distance-based education; and,
·         Research assessing the veterinarian shortage situations.
 
U.S. Senators cosponsoring the legislation include Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii); Michael Bennet (D-Colo.); Roy Blunt (R-Mo.); Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio); Saxby Chambliss (R-Georgia); Kent Conrad (D-N.D.); Al Franken (D-Minn.); Kristen Gillibrand (D-N.Y.); Tim Johnson (D-S.D.); Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.); Mary Landrieu (D-La.); Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.); and Mark Udall (D-Colo.)
 
For more information about this legislation and the large-animal veterinarian shortage, visit www.avma.org.
 
 
 
For more information, please contact:
Rhondalee A. Dean-Royce
Phone: 202-289-3213
Cell: 703-342-8286
Email: rdean-royce@avma.org

Appropriations chair announces partial list of funding cuts

The chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, Hal Rogers, R-Ky., on Feb. 9 announced a partial list of spending cuts—70 so far—that will be included in a continuing resolution to fund the government for the remaining seven months of the fiscal year.

A committee release said that a full list of cuts will be released when the bill is formally introduced. The total cuts will exceed $74 billion—including $58 billion in cuts to non-security discretionary spending.

“Never before has Congress undertaken a task of this magnitude,” Rogers said. “The cuts in this CR will represent the largest reduction in discretionary spending in the history of our nation.

Rogers said the cuts are “not low-hanging fruit,” but “will impact every [congressional] district across the country.”

Among the biggest announced cuts affecting agencies so far were:

• Office of Science -$1.1 billion
• Department of Treasury -$268 million
• IRS -$593 million
• GSA Federal Buildings Fund -$1.7 billion
• International Trade Administration -$93 million
• National Institute of Standards and Technology -$186 million
• NOAA -$336 million
• NASA -$379 million
• Environmental Protection Agency -$1.6 billion
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -$755 million
• National Institutes of Health -$1 billion

For more, go to: http://appropriations.house.gov/index.cfm

White House gets tough on ID card reader requirements

BY ALIYA STERNSTEIN

Beginning Oct. 1, the White House will penalize agencies that fail to outfit facilities and information technology systems with electronic identity card readers by withholding funds for other programs, according to a new White House memo.

Federal employees and contractors are required to carry ID badges embedded with digital fingerprints and photos to access federal buildings and networks, under the 2004 Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12. But agencies have long struggled to employ the electronic features of the badges.

The Feb. 3 Office of Management and Budget guidance directs agency heads to submit implementation policies by March 31 on required uses of the smart cards, and stipulates that funds be frozen at offices that do not follow the rules. The memo stops short of restricting bonuses and awards at agencies that have not fully complied with HSPD-12, a penalty that the nonprofit Center for Strategic and International Studies recommended during the Obama-Biden transition.

The IDs -- mentioned in President Obama's 2009 comprehensive cyber policy review, are to be issued following standard security checks on individuals. Agencies reported they have completed about 5 million background investigations for 5.7 million employees and contractors, and have issued 4.5 million IDs as of December 2010.

"The majority of the federal workforce is now in possession of the credentials, and therefore agencies are in a position to aggressively step up their efforts to use the electronic capabilities of the credentials," OMB Director Jacob Lew wrote in Thursday's memo.

An attachment to the memo from the Homeland Security Department outlines rules for the usage policies, such as a requirement that, effective immediately, all new IT systems must be equipped to read smart cards before the systems go live.

Gregory Schaffer, DHS assistant secretary for cybersecurity and communications, wrote in the attachment, "Effective the beginning of FY2012, existing physical and logical access control systems must be upgraded to use [the] credentials, in accordance with [National Institute of Standards and Technology] guidelines, prior to the agency using development and technology refresh funds to complete other activities."

By Feb. 25, agencies must designate responsible individuals to ensure the policies are issued, the memo added.

Homeland Security, which last year took over government wide cybersecurity operations, will work with the General Services Administration to oversee HSPD-12 implementation, according to the memo.
As recently as March 2010, the Government Accountability Office reported "most agencies had not made full use of the electronic authentication capabilities available on the personal identification verification cards that they had issued or had plans to do so."

http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20110207_9583.php?oref=rss?zone=NGpopular
 

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