CHARGE:

To serve in an advisory and consultative capacity to the President and Vice President for Research, and to work with the Institutional Safety Office in matters pertaining to heightened awareness by students, faculty, and staff of the risks, prevention, and treatment of illness caused by exposure to transmissible agents in the workplace and outside the Health Science Center.  To develop policies about the responsibilities of students, faculty, and staff of the Health Science Center for risk management, prevention, and treatment of illness caused by exposure to transmissible agents within the Health Science Center and to recommend these policies for implementation to the Executive Committee of the Health Science Center.  To develop policies about the responsibilities of the Health Science Center to students, faculty, and staff regarding protection from exposure to bloodborne pathogens or potentially infectious agents in the workplace or classroom and to recommend these policies for implementation to the Executive Committee of the Health Science Center.  To maintain a panel of expert advisors from the Health Science Center to address ad hoc infectious disease-related personnel issues of the Health Science Center and to offer recommendations for their resolution.  To recommend policies within the Health Science Center to reflect new knowledge or changes in the understanding of infectious disease risk, etiology, prevention, and treatment.  Recognizing that infectious diseases are not predictable, it may be necessary for the Committee to draw upon disease specific and educational expertise as the need arises.

Term of membership: Three years

Additional Information: None

 

* Chair
** Vice Chair