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Master the Disaster!2 (MtD2) is an emergency preparedness tabletop exercise builder. This interactive and customizable tool was designed specifically for public health agencies and their partners in a response. This CD-ROM includes six public...

This Public Health Grand Rounds provides participants with tools to make informed decisions regarding whether or not to close schools in their jurisdictions during infectious disease outbreaks (including H1N1 influenza). Three presentations are...

Objectives
• Types of environmental health disasters
• Who is involved
• Disaster impacts on worker, community
(four examples)
• Public health response options

Participants will be able to define the four essential leadership virtues, identify the four necessary leadership competencies, especially in a time of crisis, and practice behaviors to acquire virtues and competencies for leading others in all...

Learning Objectives:
• Review Public Health ethical frameworks that may help officials articulate options to make decisions in the midst of crises.
• Review data from the spring H1N1 outbreak.
• Review triggers in health care...

During the influenza H1N1 outbreak of 2009, health professionals were thrust into the media spotlight and reporters were forced to interpret new scientific information. In this workshop, health professionals will learn to deliver more effective...

This session provides information about the roles and response of hospitals, local public health, and state public health during the Cedar Rapids hospital evacuation operations.

Learning objective:
• Lean about the roles of hospitals...

Short guidebook listing 19 essential elements of respiratory protection for workers potentially exposed to deleterious agents, such as hazardous wastes or agents of mass destruction. Learning objectives include: Articulate the essential...

Misha Goodman, director of Iowa City Animal Services, will discuss the steps emergency responders and concerned citizens can take to care for pets during a disaster.

Learning Objectives
• Learn what pet supplies are essential....

Lisa McCormick, MPH describes a radiological dispersal event that occurred in November 2006 in London; the public health response to that event; and the implications if an event of that nature were to occur in the U.S.

Patricia Quinlisk, M.D., M.P.H., has served as the state epidemiologist and medical director for the Iowa Department of Public Health since 1994. She serves, and has served, on numerous national advisory committees including the National...

This course provided an important orientation to the HSEEP toolkit, which was rolled out to local health departments in Michigan in 2009. HSEEP is a capabilities-based exercise program with the purpose of building self-sustaining programs and...

Robert Tauxe, MD, MPH, Deputy Director, Division of Foodborne, Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Center for Zoonotic, Vectorborne, and Enteric Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and David Acheson, MD, Assistant...

The Family Preparedness Toolkit is a compilation of electronic resources to assist user in developing a family emergency plan, collecting and assembling a disaster supply kit, learning where to seek shelter from all types of hazards, and...