CORE PROJECTS
- Essential Elements of Respiratory Protection 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...
- Health Education Reaching Others and Ensuring Surge Capacity During Public Health Emergencies (HEROES) The Health Education Reaching Others and Ensuring Surge Capacity during Public Health Emergencies (HEROES) is an online module which provides an introductory emergency preparedness training to health educators and other individuals who might be...
- People with Serious Mental Illness Through Times of Disaster: A Focus on Caregivers The purpose of the video and the accompanying guide is to educate professionals who care for persons with serious mental illness about planning, preparation and responding to intentional and unintentional disasters and public health emergencies...
- Psychosocial Aspects of Bioterrorism and Disaster Response for Public Health Professionals
This presentation was prepared as part of a training session aimed at training New Jersey's health care and public health workforce to: Recognize a terrorism threat and other public health emergencies; Alert the public health system to the threat...
- Public Health Leadership Initiative for Emergency Response (PHLIER) PHLIER is a program designed to foster public health leaders, promote excellence in leadership and explore responses to public health emergencies. A fictional community, Phlierton, is set up with public health data, demographics, maps, and...
- Radiation Resources List This organized list of reputable radiation resources found online focuses on general knowledge of radiation as well as preparedness in a radiological emergency.
- Radiological Countermeasures This document contains information on 16 pharmaceutical countermeasures to radiation injury with information on the chemical name, brand name, classification, cost per dose, biological function, dose strength, Strategic National Stockpile (SNS)...
CONFERENCES & WEBCASTS
- Vaccine Preventable Diseases Conference 2010: Facts of Vaccine Science, Safety and Surveillance (July 26, 2010) On Monday, July 26, the New Jersey Center for Public Health Preparedness (NJCPHP) at the UMDNJ-School of Public Health tackled the controversies swirling around vaccines and parental concerns regarding immunizations for pre-school and school-age children and youth...
- Vaccine Preventable Diseases: Evidence and Strategies to Protect Our Communities (July 13, 2009) On Monday, July 13, 2009, the New Jersey Center for Public Health Preparedness at UMDNJ-School of Public Health tackled the controversies swirling around vaccines and recent state regulations requiring additional immunizations for...
- Protecting the Protectors: Medical, Psychological and Environmental Surveillance Needs for Workers Involved in Incident Response under the National Response Plan (September 27-28, 2005) This two day conference held in New Jersey on September 2005, was sponsored by the New Jersey Center for Public Health Preparedness at UMDNJ and the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health Preparedness, to develop guidelines for the medical/...
- Redefining Readiness: Terrorism Planning Through the Eyes of the Public (February 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...
- Comprehensive Counter-Terrorism Symposium (May 6, 2004) At the Annual Meeting of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine on May 6, 2004 in Kansas City, a team led by Michael Gochfeld of the New Jersey Center for Public Health Preparedness at UMDNJ conducted a half-day symposium...
PRESENTATIONS
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Local Needs and Preparedness for WMD Incidents: The Current - and Sobering - Picture
Starting with a study done in Kentucky, by Dr. Glenn Paulson, PhD, approximately one year after the 9/11 and anthrax letter attacks, this presentation covers the evolving response status as judged by a diverse set of professional...
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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...
NEWSLETTERS
- New Jersey Prepared Together (out of print)