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Writing a Disaster Plan: A Guide for Health Departments

Date: Jul 1 2005

This guidebook is designed to assist state and local public health departments in developing a comprehensive, all-hazards disaster plan that includes the essential components necessary in the event of an emergency or disaster. An adaptable plan...
2005 Agricultural Security Conference

Date: Jun 14 2005

Agriculture is of vital importance to the health and economic welfare of the citizens of Alabama and surrounding states. Diseases in domestic livestock can potentially spread to the human population, putting the public's health at risk. These...
Avian Influenza Tabletop Exercise

Date: Jun 1 2005

This exercise examines a sequence of events that occur on a small family farm in Minnesota in October 2005. The case demonstrates the complexity of our agricultural and food system and the need for awareness and understanding of Minnesota’s...
Michigan Public Health Media Summit 2005

Date: Jun 1 2005

The 2005 Media Summit addresses some of the central issues in effectively implementing a Crisis Emergency Risk Communication (CERC) plan, including special emphasis on diverse populations.

Intended Audience:
State and local public...
Protecting Our Food System from Intentional Attack

Date: Jun 1 2005

This module is a compilation of training resources for public health professionals in five areas of practice: cooperative extension; food processing operations; food production operations; public information; and local environmental health. The...
Rapid On-Site Testing for Terrorism: A Flip of the Coin vs. Solid Science (Grand Rounds 2005)

Date: May 19 2005

In this post-911 world, security experts are constantly anticipating new sources, sites, and modes of terrorist attacks. Being able to test an area suspected of attack rapidly and accurately is crucial to protecting the public and saving...
Responding to Accidental Releases of Chlorine: A Discussion with Georgia and South Carolina Public Health Officials

Date: May 18 2005

Bruce (Jeff) Jeffries, MA, PA of the Georgia Division of Public Health and Mary Anne Wenck, DVM, MPH of the South Carolina Division of Health and Environmental Control present their experiences as public officials responding to possible...
Corporate Emergency Preparedness: Protecting Your Own

Date: May 16 2005

This goal of this conference is to examine how terrorism and other emergency events impact corporations, the psychological and financial impacts, and lessons learned.

Speakers:
Caye Ciabattoni
Manager, Safety Service
...
Health Hazards of a Clandestine Methamphetamine Laboratory (Grand Rounds 2005)

Date: May 12 2005

Methamphetamine drug labs are a growing public health hazard in Iowa. According to the Iowa Department of Public Health, in 2003, federal, state, and local authorities seized 1,100 Iowa labs, and the number is growing every year. The chemicals...
Anticipating Avian Influenza & Other Emerging Infectious Diseases of Public Health Importance: Lessons Learned from SARS

Date: May 10 2005

This webcast includes three different talks and a panel discussion on the lessons learned from the 2002-2003 SARS outbreak. The first speaker, Gerilynne Nephew, RN, BScN, Manager of the Communicable Disease Liaison Unit, Toronto Public Health,...
Responding to Biological and Chemical Threat Agents (BCTA): Iowa’s Statewide Protocol Model (Grand Rounds 2005)

Date: May 5 2005

Organizations involved in emergency and disaster response must have a response protocol in order to respond effectively and efficiently to a threatening event. In Iowa, multiple local and state agencies have worked collaboratively to develop the...
The Collection: Tabletop Exercises for Public Health Preparedness

Date: May 1 2005

This program was developed by the Heartland Centers for Public Health Preparedness at Saint Louis University School of Public Health. HCPHP developed this program to aid in preparedness of the public health workforce to effectively respond to...
Disaster Mental Health: A 'Lessons Learned' Update

Date: Apr 28 2005

It has been over a decade since the formal foundations of the field of disaster mental health were constructed, and over three years since the terrorist attacks of September 11th. At this point sufficient experience, as well as temporal and...
Agroterrorism Preparedness in Georgia

Date: Apr 27 2005

Lee Myers, DVM, MPH, Dipl. ACVPM, a veterinarian and assistant commissioner of the Animal Industry for the Georgia Department of Agriculture discusses the importance of agriculture awareness and how vulnerable the food sector is to agroterrorism...
Terrorism Preparedness Planning for Diverse Public Health Communities

Date: Apr 7 2005

Dr. Walks founded and leads a consulting firm that specializes in the policy and practice of Health, Education and Human Services with a focus on the specific opportunities and challenges of large metropolitan and minority communities. He is an...
Community Based Participatory Research: A Strategy for Promoting Health & Reducing Health Disparities

Date: Apr 4 2005

Meredith Minkler, DrPH, Professor of Health and Social Behavior and Director of the DrPH Leadership Program at the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, delves into the implications of community-based participatory...
Twenty Years of Medical Preparedness for Chemical, Biological, and Radiological Emergencies in Israel

Date: Mar 30 2005

Lion Poles, MD, a cardiologist at the Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot, Israel, discusses his belief that Israel is medically prepared for mass toxicological incidents. When discussing preparedness, Dr. Poles states that his country has the...
Psychosocial Aspects of Bioterrorism and Disaster Response for Public Health Professionals

Date: Mar 17 2005

This training training took place at the New Jersey Preparedness Training Consortium on March 17th, 2005. The training was developed in partnership with the New Jersey Center for Public Health Preparedness at UMDNJ. The goal of this training...
Excellence in Collaboration

Date: Mar 10 2005

This presentation highlights collaborative excellence! Presenting are Rob Blake, REHS, MPH, Heidi Davidson, MPH, and Susan Lance, DVM, PhD, all members of the Metro Atlanta Surveillance Task Force (MASTF), whose mission is to develop and...
Preparing For Pandemic Infectious Disease

Date: Mar 9 2005

The materials presented here are from the Oklahoma Public Health Association's annual meeting on March 9, 2005 in Oklahoma City. The speakers covered four different areas of preparing for pandemic infectious diseases:
1. The History and...
Agriculture Security and Public Health

Date: Feb 25 2005

Topics Covered:
Topic 1: How People and Poultry Interact (Stewart-Brown)
Topic 2: A National Animal Identification System (Ragan)
Topic 3: Overview of Commercial Poultry Production (Ritter)

Speakers:
Dr. Bruce...
Redefining Readiness: Terrorism Planning Through the Eyes of the Public

Date: Feb 3 2005

The special guest speaker for this awareness level satellite broadcast is Roz D. Lasker, MD, Director, Division of Public Health and the Center for the Advancement of Collaborative Strategies in Health at the New York Academy of Medicine. ...
Biological Weapons: From the Invention of State-Sponsored Programs to Contemporary Bioterrorism

Date: Jan 26 2005

Jeanne Guillemin discusses the long history of biological warfare. She also reveals some of the many discoveries she made while writing her latest book, Biological Weapons: From the Invention of State-Sponsored Programs to Contemporary...
Assessing Chemical Exposure: A Different Approach

Date: Jan 6 2005

In this awareness-level satellite broadcast, speaker George Eadon, PhD, will discuss chemical warfare agents and toxic industrial chemicals whose intentional or accidental release might have substantial public health consequences. He will also...
Anthrax at Emory? A Multi-Agency Response to a Suspicious Envelope

Date: Jan 1 2005

This web-based case study describes an incident involving a suspicious envelope that occurred on the Emory University campus in September 2002. The case study is broken down into five modules: 1) Introduction; 2) Background on Anthrax; 3) Case...
Communicable Diseases and Public Health: Viruses, Bacteria, and Parasites

Date: Jan 1 2005

This web-based case study describes four public health scenarios featuring communicable diseases: norovirus, Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), meningococcal meningitis, and gastroenteritis. Each case study presents information...
E is for Epidemiology Training Series

Date: Jan 1 2005

E is for Epidemiology is a five part series for non-epidemiologists, with the intention of preparing you to work collaboratively with Epidemiologists and Public Health Surveillance personnel in your region. This series was designed to introduce...
Emerging Threats in Public Health: Agroterrorism

Date: Jan 1 2005

This multimedia training is designed to educate public health professionals about agroterrorism. The content is divided into two modules. Module 1: Introduction to Agroterrorism; Module 2: Agroterrorism and the Public Health Response. Throughout...
Emerging Threats in Public Health: Explosives

Date: Jan 1 2005

This multimedia training is designed to educate public health professionals about explosives. The content is divided into two modules. Module 1: Introduction to Explosives; Module 2: Explosives and the Public Health Response. Throughout these...
Epi Info Training Series

Date: Jan 1 2005

This 14 part series is designed to give you an overview and tutorial of the Epi Info™ computer program developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. With Epi Info™ and a personal computer, epidemiologists and other public health...

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