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TROYATHENSMODELUNITEDNATIONS
CONFERENCE

February8th,2016
2:20PM4:25PM
Chairs: Goutham Karuppiah and Rayshad Rahman
Crisis Staff: Noshin Khan and Brandon Austreng
Located in Mrs.Symes Room
TOPIC: THE ZIKA VIRUS- A GLOBAL EPIDEMIC

POSITIONS:
Position

Name

CDC Director

Yoon-Se Kim

Office of Health Preparedness and Response

Ashley Austreng

National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases

Lara Kseri

National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Disease

Max Fanroy

National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities

Hailey Abro

National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Mustafa Rasheed

National Center for Environmental Health

Nunj Shergill

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

Nathon Bryson

Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services

Pedro Pascotto

National Center for Health Statistics

Akila Nallabellli

Office of Minority Health and Health Equity

Amrith Bhaskaran

Center for Global Health

Nikila Nallabelli

Office of Public Health Scientific Services

Manasi Desai

Associate Director for Communication

Aubrey Kapala

Associate Director for Laboratory Science and Safety

Sharanya Subramaniam

Associate Director for Policy

Emily Mei

CDC Washington Office

Brenolt Stephens

Chief Operating Officer

Revelle Gappy

Chief of Staff

Varun Valluri

Associate Director for Science

Alex Yan

Office for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support

Diego Fernandez

Office of Noncommunicable Diseases, Injury, and Environmental Health

Blake Martin

BACKGROUND
The first viral infection of the mosquito-transmitted virus occurred in May of 2015
in Brazil. Prior to 2015, the virus was primarily located in Africa, Southeast Asia and the
Pacific Islands. Symptoms of this virus include, but are not limited to:
fever, rash, joint
pain, or conjunctivitis (red eyes) and muscle pain . Since the beginning of 2016, the CDC
issued a guide to women traveling to south america in order to protect any transmission
of the Zika virus to an unborn child. Nearly 3500 cases of microcephaly (a condition in
which the babys head is smaller and less developed ) have been reported since the
outbreak in May.
A majority of countries in South America affected by the Zika virus ban any form of
contraceptives and any conditions for abortions. Countries such as Colombia, Brazil, and
El Salvador have encouraged women to abstain from getting pregnant in order to prevent
the risk of transmission. Furthermore, people traveling outside of infected countries pose
a risk to creating another epidemic if spread. Although the disease is largely transmitted
by mosquitoes, it can also be transmitted sexually, and the first sexually transmitted case
of zika virus was reported in the U.S. on February 2nd, 2016. This has brought an
emphasis on encouraging people to abstain from having sex with a partner who has
recently visited an area exposed to zika.

In this crisis committee, delegates will represent members of the CDC rather than
countries. Delegates will have to solve a series of problems quickly and efficiently in order
to mitigate the outbreak. They will also be using directives (including action orders,
communiqus, and press releases), rather than resolutions, in order to implement
solutions more efficiently. The majority of the debate will be in the form of a moderated
caucus.

EXAMPLE OF A DIRECTIVE:
Sponsors: Chief Operating Officer, Zoonotic Diseases
Signatories: CDC Director, Respiratory Diseases,
The Center for Disease Control:
Strongly encourages all affected South American countries to require testing for
zika virus for men and women;
Calls on countries yet unaffected to implement travel restrictions to affected South
American countries.

PERSONAL POWERS
Delegates may send the dias (chairs) with personal privileges of their respective position.
Not all notes may be entertained!* Powers can only range of their characters placement
of regional speciality.