Dr. Jack M. DeBoy II This is Me

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1. 1. APHL Helps Mutual Aid Bill Become MD Law

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   Published on: 4/24/2008   Last Visited: 7/20/2008

   Jack DeBoy, director of the Maryland Laboratories Administration, has long been aware of a hole in the emergency response safety net for public health laboratories.The Emergency Management Assistance Compactâ€"a mutual aid agreement among most US states and territoriesâ€"is operative only after a governor declares a state-of-emergency.
   
   "Laboratories are usually one of the first players in emergency response," said DeBoy."We can't afford to always wait for a formal declaration of emergency.If our building's blown up or contaminated, is the governor even going to declare a complete state of emergency?There's nothing to do in that situation anyway other than to rely on sister public health laboratories."
   
   Such concerns about continuity of operations led DeBoy to push for passage of a groundbreaking laboratory mutual aid bill that would permit Maryland laboratorians to continue working in an out-of-state laboratory during a crisisâ€"even absent an official state-of-emergency declarationâ€"with all the pay and benefits that accrue to a state employee working in Maryland.More generally, the law would allow the state public health laboratory to enter into a mutual aid agreement with a public health laboratory operated by a state or local government outside of Maryland and assure that Maryland would not file legal claims against the out-of-state laboratory related to the performance of routine work.
   
   Despite the commonsense utility of the legislation, its passage by the Maryland legislature was far from certain in early 2007."A lot of preconceived legal roadblocks had to be dismantled," said DeBoy.
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   DeBoy said, "The fact that APHL sent someone in person to testify was more important that having any one state lab director there.
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   Said DeBoy, "There's no question that APHL support helped pass this bill."

2. 2. www.prnewswire.com

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   Published on: 4/16/2007   Last Visited: 4/16/2007

   According to Maryland's public health laboratory director, Jack DeBoy, DrPH, HB 344 will assure continuity of public health testing operations. "If Maryland's central public health laboratory is put out of action for more than a couple days by an explosion, fire, flood, HVAC breakdown or by microbial or chemical contamination, the state would need the support of public health laboratories in other states to continue Maryland's essential public health testing," DeBoy said.

3. 3. APHL Testifies in Support of Maryland House Bill 344: Public Health Laboratories -- Mutual Aid Agreements Legislation

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   Published on: 2/15/2007   Last Visited: 2/16/2007

   Maryland's public health laboratory director, Jack DeBoy, DrPH,