Global Strategic Resources (GSR), located in Gig Harbor, Washington, was founded in 2003 by Dr. Igor Shafhid to meet the large demand for effective preparedness against possible WMD threats worldwide. GSR understands the importance of a unified and capable response by all agencies involved in a WMD incident. Its goal is to prepare state and local agencies, as well as emergency responders, to react and effectively respond and control large-scale man-made biological/chemical/nuclear terrorist events with potentially less casualties within the population and the responding agencies themselves. With todays threat of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, strategies and tactics implemented in a safe, timely, and unified manner is essential for overcoming any life-threatening obstacles during such an event.

GSR utilizes medical, scientific, and military experience in its WMD courses to bring thorough and proper training for hospitals, emergency responders, and all agencies involved in crisis management. The courses are effective due to the knowledge and experience from a Russian medical military background. These experiences include the treatment of contagious and non-contagious patients around infectious diseases in military and civilian hospitals, working with contaminated victims during large field military exercises, and the studying of exposed patients after the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant incident.

GSR offers WMD training courses and seminars for hospitals and first responders, along with speaking engagements for the general public. The audience includes clinics, physicians, nurses, incident commanders, law enforcement, paramedics, EMT’s, fire rescue teams, government and state agencies, military medical professionals, colleges, schools, and businesses.

In-depth training courses for pre-hospital/hospital professionals and military medical personnel provide a specific training system that promotes correct and safe response to WMD scenarios and mass casualty situations, especially during contact work with contaminated and contagious victims. These courses will deliver training on WMD chemical/toxin incidents, hospital response and protection, principles and practices of decontamination in hospital settings after a biological/chemical/nuclear event, response after a biological incident inside a hospital setting, pediatric care during and after a WMD incident, psychological impact on victims and responders after a WMD event, and personal protection tactics during contact work with mass casualties after a NBC event. A course on hospital management during a WMD crisis is offered to non-medical hospital personnel as well. First responders and incident commanders are given basic and advanced courses for proper strategy and tactics during large-scale nuclear/radiological incidents. GSR also provides analysis and consultations for state and local agencies including strategic planning for health care providers and emergency response organizations.

GSR strives for excellence in presentation of subject matter, assuring students it is committed to providing valuable and workable instruction for a successful response in the event of a WMD incident.

The Soviet and Russian military and civilian medical communities built strong and effective programs for preparedness. Their plans are tested through the time system of complete isolation and control of mass numbers of highly contagious outbreaks of dangerous infectious diseases. They also have had the expertise and medical experience in dealing with those contaminated and contagious mass casualties without overloading the health system––all the while having proper and complete stockpiles of necessary medical and other support materials for specific potential WMD incidents stored on site. There is no denial that the Russian military medical system has a higher advantage over America for proper and immediate quality response in dealing with large-scale WMD incidents. Their plan was executed years ago with one goal in mind, to overpower the West. Therefore they produced a plan that had to work.

These proven plans of emergency preparedness perfected and implemented by Russia should not be ignored. There is no other nation in the world who has spent more money and used more human energy to successfully build a strong civil defense system. The Soviet/Russian military medical system has over one hundred years of experience and outstanding expertise in issues of emergency preparation against annihilating WMD attacks. Using Russia's wisdom on emergency response can produce a strong, solid, and safe America as well.

Global Strategic Resources (GSR) has implemented and combined the wisdom and knowledge of Russia’s proven strategies with U.S. infrastructure procedures to bring about a complete training system of preparation and isolation control of all facilities, including the hospital system, against biological, chemical and radiological incidents in large urban areas of the United States. This system, called Complete Facility Infrastructure Protection and Preparedness (CFIPP), uses cross contamination and isolation precautions of specific entities and medical departments, inside and outside the hospital system, based on fundamental principles of hazardous material control and isolation of public facilities as temporary or permanent bases. This system of isolation control and personnel adaptation and training for specific hazards is built on technical and scientific experiences and expertise by consulting group members, some who have first hand knowledge and training under the Soviet WMD preparedness system. CFIPP is a flexible and simplified system that can be customized for each individual need.

GSR provides hospitals and other facilities with necessary engineering changes for usable medical facilities as well as developing temporary isolation wards inside and outside those facilities. This system of reliable and quick response provides knowledge on immediate changes to the hospital system, and relays hourly and daily preparation for collection of mass casualties, especially in those first critical hours of response. GSR builds a complete pre-hospital and in-hospital disinfecting/decontaminating role for victims/patients and medical personnel during their shift work inside quarantine zones. Medical and non-medical personnel are shown how to work on short notice in organizing and operating this decontamination system using standard decontamination equipment. Success for all hospitals in maintaining complete protection against internal contamination of facilities and prevention against internal outbreaks of contagious diseases happens when the principles and standards of CFIPP are implemented, and personnel are properly trained to work together as one unit, each one with their own responsibility to accomplish.