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Ethical Hazards in Pandemic Flu Planning and Response

Special 90-minute program. An influenza pandemic will confront many people in our society, including health professionals, political leaders, and ordinary citizens, with terrible challenges that they are not accustomed to facing and will raise...
Ethical Hazards in Pandemic Influenza Planning & Response

This webcast discuss ethical risks pertaining to Pandemic Influenza.
Ethical Issues in Disaster Response

This presentation by Laurie Hamilton, PhD, is part of the North Carolina Disaster Response Network Training series and provides an understanding of the variety of ethical issues which are present and that impact the effective response to disaster...
Ethics and Emergency Preparedness

Educational Objectives
• Review a Public Health ethical framework that may help officials make decisions, in the midst of crises
• Recognize key Public Health ethical issues
• Review potential triggers that raise ethical...
Ethics in the Age of Bioterrorism (with special focus on Hurricane Katrina)

This collaborative program sponsored by the University of South Carolina Center for Public Health Preparedness and presented by the University at Albany Center for Public Health Preparedness, discusses the ethical complexities which public health...
Ethics in the Age of Terrorism

Terrorism, whether biological, chemical, or nuclear presents special challenges to caregivers, healthcare institutions, community organizations, and governmental agencies. Major natural disasters offer many of the same challenges. Finding one's...
Evidence and Anecdote: Medicine and Science in the Popular Press (Grand Rounds 2004)

The purpose of the lecture will be to describe and illustrate the strengths and weaknesses of the press's handling of science, and, in particular, medicine. The focus will be on newspapers, not television. Emphasis will be placed on journalistic...
Examining the Radiological Emergency Response Capabilities in the U.S.: Lessons from the London Polonium Incident

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.
Excellence in Collaboration

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...
Facing Ethical Challenges; Dealing with Outcomes: Stories from the Field

In this second of three sessions on ethical dilemmas in public health practice, Harvey Kayman will address real stories from public health professionals in the field of scenarios demonstrating ethical dilemmas they’ve encountered. Audience...
Family Preparedness Toolkit

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...
Field Surveillance for Disasters (online course) FSFDS1107

A basic understanding of surveillance is critical for public health emergency preparedness, BT-related outbreak investigations, and prompt decision making in emergency situations. Disease surveillance includes the incorporation of several...
First Responders: Self Care, Wellness, Health, Resilience, and Recovery Dealing with Stress

This presentation answers the questions: How can first responders deal with the stress they feel while helping their communities respond to and recover from a disaster or terrorist attack? How can first responders possibly prepare for...
Flus of the 20th and 21st Centuries

The 2006 Models of Excellence Lecture Series engages public health practitioners in discussions about historical and contemporary public health events and extract lessons for future preparedness. Dr. Michael Lane and Dr. Richard Schieber co-...
FOCUS on Field Epidemiology Training Series (also available in Spanish - FOCUS en espanol)

FOCUS is an online publication on Field Epidemiology. The volumes cover topics such as outbreak investigation, interviewing techniques, study design, forensic epidemiology, environmental risk assessment, data analysis, laboratory diagnosis, and...
Food & Waterborne Infectious Disease Threats Symposium

This multimedia presentation has been designed to educate medical and public health professionals about food and waterborne infectious disease threats. The learner will learn about immediate threats to our nation’s food and water supply and...
Food as an Effective Weapon of Terrorism

This course will address the reasons and logic, which would focus a terrorist attack on the food supply. The characteristics of the food supply chain will be examined and the links which expose themselves to interruption, explored....
Food Contamination Tabletop

The “Tabletop Exercise No. 2: Food Contamination” is part of the Harvard School of Public Health Center for Public Health Preparedness Toolkit to Assist Public Health in Conducting Preparedness Exercises. These materials are designed...
Food Safety

Dr. Schwab examines the U.S. food production system and describes both system vulnerabilities and governmental initiatives that address those areas.
Part 1: The U.S. Food System
Part 2: Food Safety and Security
Part 3: Factors...
Food Safety Toolkit

This toolkit addresses the issues of food safety in our society and reviews and discusses potentially hazardous foods, critical temperatures for cooking and storage, infective doses and foodborne illness, hand washing, and the need to separate...
Foodborne Disease: Finding the Common Thread - or Leafy Green Vegetable (Grand Rounds 2007)

Advances in molecular epidemiology have dramatically enhanced our ability to detect and fix problems in our food and water supplies that formerly would have gone unnoticed. Recent outbreaks of E. coli O157:H7 and Salmonella spp. associated with...
Foreign Substance Response (Grand Rounds 2006)

The purpose of this presentation is to provide a reinforcement of the Iowa Biological and Chemical Threat Agent (BCTA) protocol model for handling suspicious mail and or packages.
Forensic Epidemiology Part 1

This presentation by Pia MacDonald, PhD, MPH, Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Project Director of the Center for Public Health Preparedness and Sally...
Forensic Epidemiology Part 2

This presentation by Pia MacDonald, PhD, MPH, Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Project Director of the Center for Public Health Preparedness and Sally...
Fundamentals of Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication

This toolkit was developed to support a "train the trainer" program for state and local public health practitioners in public health emergency preparedness. It consists of a lecture slide set, a group exercise with slide set, testing...
General Considerations in Investigating Non-Infectious Clusters of Disease

This presentation developed by Jeanette and Paul Stehr-Green and narrated by Anjum Hajat, MPH, gives you an overview of investigating non-infectious disease clusters.

Educational Objectives:
• Define a disease cluster and give...
Generator Safety

During power outages, generators are widely used by the general public and problems can arise from improper use. Here are some tips you can pass on to the communities in which you work.
Genesis of an Influenza Pandemic: Preparedness vs. Poultry, Poverty, and Practices (Grand Rounds 2006)

Dr. Nancy Cox, an internationally renowned expert on influenza surveillance, prevention, and control, will discuss current U.S. and global preparedness efforts for pandemic influenza, as well as challenges to planning strategies. Dr. Cox is the...
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

This PowerPoint presentation provides an overview of the role of GIS in Public Health and Medicine.
Geographical Information System (GIS) Applications for Public Health (Grand Rounds 2006)

In this presentation, Dr. Gerard Rushton will show how geospatial linkages of health data to other information when used with methods of spatial analysis can be used to guide public health interventions.

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