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Disasters and Public Health: Lessons for Bioterrorism Preparedness

In this presentation, Dr. Thomas Glass examines the role that the public has played in a crisis, concluding that the population doesn't react or panic in the way that is popularly expected. Furthermore, Dr. Glass offers ways to involve the public...
Disasters in Rural America: Where is Public Health? (archived webcast) DIRAA0110

This Public Health Grand Rounds addresses the effects of natural disasters on rural health and highlights challenges public health professionals face when working with hard-to-reach populations to prepare for future emergencies. Presentations are...
Disease Surveillance (Public Health Emergency Training Series)

This online module defines traditional and syndromic surveillance methods and explains how disease outbreaks are detected and investigated.

Learning Objectives - Upon successful completion of this training, participants will be able to:...
Disease Surveillance Skill Development Guide

This Guide provides supplemental learning activities for the Disease Surveillance module, to promote discussion and application of disease surveillance knowledge and skills in work settings.

The purpose of this Skill Development Guide is...
Diversity and Cultural Competency in Public Health Settings

The purpose of this course is to provide public health practitioners with the awareness and knowledge to incorporate diversity and cultural competency concepts, tools, and techniques into their daily work. It is expected that by the end of this...
Diversity Leadership: A Strategic Approach

This course guides participants developing action plans to help handle issues that might come up from cultural diversity. In this course, the participants will ascertain diagnostic skills, make inferences from collected data, and learn to how to...
Drive-Through versus Walk-Up Emergency Mass Dispensing Sites

In this webcast Alisa Diggs, PA-C, MPH discusses the lessons learned from point of dispensing (POD) field trials. She covers the roles and responsibilities of people operating a POD, introduces the drive-through and walk-up PODs, and discusses...
E is for Epidemiology Training Series

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...
Economic Evaluation of Preparedness Programs

This training product will introduce you to the basics of economics and the process of creating a cost-effectiveness survey. After learning introductory terms and ideas, you will be presented with two case studies before being given a final...
Effective Communication for Environmental Public Health

Do you find yourself struggling to communicate your public health message? This self-paced, interactive module is designed for public health professionals, especially those responsible for implementing environmental health programs. It introduces...
Effects of Disasters on Mental Health for Children and Adolescents

In addition to providing general knowledge of how disaster trauma effects this particular population, this course emphasizes practical skills: administering psychological first aid to children and adolescents in the immediate aftermath of a...
Effects of Disasters on Mental Health: Awareness Level

This course is intended for anyone who will come into professional contact with disaster victims, including DMAT, hospital workers, EMTs, primary care providers and public health workers. There are three modules in this course: Module 1: Disaster...
Effects of Disasters on Mental Health: Technical Level

This course emphasizes two practical skills:
1)Administering psychological first aid to disaster victims in the immediate aftermath of a disaster
2)Screening disaster victims for common mental health disorders in the months that...
Effects of Radiological Agents

This archived webcast emphasizes the biological effects associated with radiation exposure and introduces public health professionals to their roles and responsibilities in a radiological emergency. An in-depth discussion of radiation and the...
Emergency Distribution of Pharmaceuticals

During an emergency, public health workers may be called upon to help dispense medicine or medical supplies. Find out what is involved in the process of mass dispensing of medications, vaccines, or other medical supplies. This module outlines...
Emergency Mental Health and Disaster Response Conference

This conference is designed to provide state, county and local level administrators as well as mental health professionals, first responders, and other interested citizens with a comprehensive overview of disaster
mental health services....
Emergency Preparedness and the Need to include Persons with Disabilities: Basic Issues for Organizations to Consider

This presentation by Pam Dickens, MPH, gives you an overview of the basic issues to consider when including persons with disabilities in emergency preparedness planning.

Educational Objectives
• Provide an overview of disability...
Emergency Preparedness Checklist for Public Health

If you are a member of the public health workforce, click on the link below to download a PDF version of our "Emergency Preparedness Checklist for Public Health." This checklist is intended for use by all public health personnel at the...
Emergency Preparedness for Dentists

This online course provides an introduction to Emergency Preparedness for Dentists. This is information that you as a dental worker need to know in order to be an efficient member of your unit. The objectives for the course are:
• Discuss...
Emergency Preparedness for You and Your Pet

Emergency Preparedness for You and Your Pet is a compilation of electronic resources for pet owners to assist them in developing an emergency plan that includes their pets.
Emergency Preparedness Including Bioterrorism: An All Hazards Course for Local Boards of Health

Material in this course is taken directly from the document “Emergency Preparedness Including Bioterrorism: An All Hazards Guide for Local Boards of Health” published by the National Association of Local Boards of Health (NALBOH). The mission of...
Emergency Preparedness Planning for Colleges and Universities

The goal of this symposium is to give the decision makers in colleges and universities tools to enhance and build on the schools' emergency preparedness plans. The symposium also aims to help build a network among the participants to rely on and...
Emergency Preparedness Planning Toolkit for Diverse Populations

The purpose of the Emergency Preparedness Planning Toolkit for Diverse Populations is to provide resources to public health planners and individuals from other sectors involved in preparedness efforts. These resources aim to improve outcomes for...
Emergency Preparedness: Business Continuity Tabletop Exercise

Description:
A pandemic flu event has hit your area. The number of people absent from work continues to increase. How does business continue? This Business Continuity Tabletop Exercise will allow you to simulate such an event and discover...
Emergency Readiness Rounds- Healers' Healing and Resilience in the Aftermath of Disaster: Harnessing Our Resources across Individual, Family, and Social Systems

As first responders, medical and mental health personnel, and public health professionals serving within the acute phases of a disaster transition to longer-term phases in recovery efforts (or back into their "normal" jobs), attention to these...
Emergency Response Planning

Emergency Response Planning covers the organization of emergency response efforts on the federal, state and local levels. It defines public health priorities for effective consequence management, and it explains the concepts around ICS (Incidence...
Emergency Risk Communication for Public Health Professionals

Description:
Effective communication with the public during an emergency is vital to protect the community's health. This module can help you learn how to better handle your risk communication. It provides an overview of how to plan for an...
Emerging Issue: Novel Influenza A - H1N1 (Grand Rounds 2009)

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...
Emerging Threats in Public Health: Agroterrorism

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: Bioterrorism (also available in Spanish)

This multimedia training is designed to educate public health professionals about bioterrorism. The content is divided into two modules. Module 1: Introduction to Bioterrorism; Module 2: Biological Agents. Throughout...

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