{"id":105611,"date":"2020-04-17T17:43:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T00:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/about-the-event-201-exercise"},"modified":"2020-04-17T17:43:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T00:43:04","slug":"about-the-event-201-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/about-the-event-201-exercise","title":{"rendered":"About the Event 201 exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/about-the-event-201-exercise3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Talk being ahead of the curve;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Event 201 was a 3.5-hour pandemic tabletop exercise that simulated a series of dramatic, scenario-based facilitated discussions, confronting difficult, true-to-life dilemmas associated with response to a hypothetical, but scientifically plausible, pandemic. 15 global business, government, and public health leaders were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerforhealthsecurity.org\/event201\/players\/index.html\">players<\/a> in the simulation exercise that highlighted unresolved real-world policy and economic issues that could be solved with sufficient political will, financial investment, and attention now and in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The exercise consisted of pre-recorded news broadcasts, live \u201cstaff\u201d briefings, and moderated discussions on specific topics. These issues were carefully designed in a compelling narrative that educated the participants and the audience.<\/p>\n<p>The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, World Economic Forum, and Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation jointly propose these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerforhealthsecurity.org\/event201\/recommendations.html\">recommendations<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talk being ahead of the curve; Event 201 was a 3.5-hour pandemic tabletop exercise that simulated a series of dramatic, scenario-based facilitated discussions, confronting difficult, true-to-life dilemmas associated with response to a hypothetical, but scientifically plausible, pandemic. 15 global business, government, and public health leaders were players in the simulation exercise that highlighted unresolved real-world [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":518,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43,39,45,1490,1495,31,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business","category-economics","category-finance","category-government","category-health","category-policy","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/518"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}