General Preparedness

The Disaster Leadership seminar was designed to enhance your ability to lead decisively & collaboratively, in this case using an influenza pandemic scenario to promote discussion of real world applications. The self-assessment tool should be used in conjunction with the leadership seminar to gauge participants' strengths and weaknesses in five leadership categories.

After completing this workshop, participants will:
• Discuss the Public Health Leadership Model

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 emotional distance, have been gained so as to reflect upon the "lessons learned" in disaster mental health. The purpose of this conference is to provide those in attendance with a unique "lessons learned" approach to the practice of disaster mental health from a collection of speakers uniquely qualified to reflect back and to look forward.

Detailed and thought-out disaster planning must be considered for effective disaster preparedness, especially for those specific populations for whom disasters might aggravate pre-existing conditions. An especially important population to consider when planning for disaster preparedness is children with special health care needs (CSHN). CSHN may be more vulnerable in a disaster situation, and therefore require tailored disaster kits for their specific condition to maintain their health when access to medical resources may be limited.

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 more after a disaster.

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:
- Define surveillance
- List surveillance activities
- Explain the advantages and disadvantages of different surveillance methods
- Define outbreak
- Describe how disease outbreaks are detected
- Identify the steps of an outbreak investigation

Audience:
The primary audience for this training includes:

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 course that each participant will be conversant in issues related to culture and health, health disparities, and community health models designed to close the gap in health disparities.

Learning Objectives
• To describe the demographic trends and epidemiological trends related to diverse populations in the United States and abroad

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 summary. By the time you've completed all four topics, you should be able to examine a cost-effectiveness survey and provide an informed opinion about whether to spend money on a program from a cost-effectiveness point of view.

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 the principles of emergency management
• Identify the public health roles of dentists in disaster and public health emergency response
• Discuss the role of communication in emergencies and disasters
• Identify the patterns of illness and injury associated with disasters and public health emergencies

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 NALBOH is to strengthen local boards of health, enabling them to promote and protect the health of their communities, through education, technical assistance, and advocacy.

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 Command Structure). Finally, it details an example of how ICS was used in a live situation by a local health department. The concepts behind an Emergency Operations Plan—and future directions for such plans and the role of the CDC in providing leadership for emergency preparedness—will be discussed.

Emergencies and disasters can occur anywhere in the world, affecting human health, people’s lives and the infrastructure built to support them. Environmental health problems arising from emergencies and disasters are connected to their effects on the physical, biological and social environment that pose a threat to human health, well-being and survival: shelter, water, sanitation, disease vectors, pollution, etc. This module will provide an overview of these issues and describe the public health responsibilities during and after emergencies and disasters.
Learning Objectives:

This presentation provides an overview of environmental health and emergency response and explores the environmental health roles through the examination of recent emergencies.

During a widespread epidemic or other public health emergency, epidemiologic information is crucial to a rational response. Epidemiology support personnel play an important role during a public health emergency by helping epidemiologists collect high quality information. This course is intended to introduce epidemiology support personnel to the concepts and skills they will need to perform their role during a disaster response.
This training package contains slide sets, activities, a glossary, and evaluation materials.

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 questions they are not used to addressing. Resources of all sorts may be in short supply. People may have to choose between caring for their usual responsibilities and taking care of themselves and their families. The right of non-interference by governmental officials may be suspended. How can we prepare for the moral choices we may have to make?