Johns Hopkins University - Center for Public Health Preparedness

The all-day conference, held on October 15, 2003, covered a variety of topics that connected mental health and mental health planning with disaster response. This training contains four of those presentations.
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1)Psychology of Terrorism
2)Acute Crisis Response
3)Beyond Debriefing
4)Care for the Caregivers

This module offers an introduction to the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and its relevance to all-hazards public health readiness and response. The content conforms to the FEMA IS-700 awareness level NIMS training, with special emphasis on its applications for public health agencies in the following contexts:
* Command and management under NIMS, including Incident Command Systems and related concepts for public health
* Public health information under NIMS
* Public health preparedness in the NIMS context
* Public health resource management under NIMS

Subject areas covered in this training:
* Diagnosis and treatment of biological, chemical or radiological event
* Epidemiology
* Surveillance (including syndromic)

Target Audiences:
* Elected Government Official
* Epidemiologist
* First Responder (EMT, paramedic, fire, rescue, HazMat, etc.)
* Health Administrator
* Health Educators or Trainer
* Health Planner/Research/Analyst
* Nurse (including all RN, LPN)
* Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant
* Physician
* Public Health Physician

Speakers:
Rashid Chotani, MD, MPH

Public health workers need to understand and implement basic concepts of personal preparedness planning so that they can function effectively as public health emergency responders in a post-9/11 world. These basic preparedness strategies can be applied to meet a broad range of public health emergency response challenges, including—but not limited to—acts of terrorism. Personal Preparedness Planning provides a practical introduction to these concepts that is tailored to the needs of public health responders and their families.

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/psychological surveillance and environmental exposure monitoring of disaster responder

In this training, Dr. Everly addresses two areas of crisis response (taking care of personal mental health needs and addressing the mental health needs of others) and concludes with an examination of the mental health threat posed by terrorism.
Topic 1: Taking Care of Yourself
Part 1: Stress and Burnout
Part 2: Managing the Stress in Your Life
Part 3: The Choice Is Yours

Topic 2: Foundations of Psychological First Aid
Part 1: Introduction to Psychological First Aid
Part 2: Responding to Crisis: Tactical Considerations

Topic 3: Terrorism's Impact on the Public's Mental Health

In this training, Dr. Barnett examines how 9/11 altered the way in which local health departments create their response plans.

This presentation provides a practical overview of design, implementation, and evaluation of public health emergency preparedness exercises. The three basic types of exercises – tabletop, functional, and full-scale – are described, along with challenges to be addressed in choosing an appropriate exercise scenario and pitfalls to be avoided in the evaluation process. The guidance provided is consistent with an all-hazards approach to public health emergency readiness exercise activities.

In this presentation, Dr. Parker examines the different factors that affect both how to discuss disasters with people and how that information is processed.

Topic 1: Crisis Communication: How to Talk to People About Disasters
Part 1: What About Panic?
Part 2: Negative Dominance
Part 3: Trust Determination
Part 4: Mental Noise
Learning Objectives :
After listening to, viewing, and studying the lecture materials below, you will be able to:
•Describe goals of effective risk communication

This lecture focuses on a multi-faced approach to risk communication with special emphasis on the post-9/11 environment.

This lecture specifically addresses:
1) The components of successful risk communication
2) The aspects of risk perception
3) The limits of risk assessment

This presentation discusses the different types of stress and their sources. The speaker also provides seven methods for reducing stress.

After listening to, viewing, and studying the lecture materials on this page, you will be able to do the following:
•Define the concept of stress
•Describe the four mechanisms by which helping professionals may be adversely affected by assisting survivors of adversity, crisis, and disaster
•Describe the seven elements of the Stress Management Pyramid

William Haddon Jr., MD, created a list of 10 basic strategies in minimizing everyday injuries. In this training, you will hear Professors Baker and Runyan explain how to use his 10 basic strategies and his "Haddon Matrix" to reduce injuries that may occur as a result of terrorist acts.

Part 1: Threats Posed by Building Bombings
Part 2: Application of Haddon’s Ten Basic Strategies and the Haddon Matrix
Part 3: Strategies for Prevention of Bombing Injuries

Course Description:
To provide a range of solutions from individual behavior change to regional and global policies to stabilize the climate.

Symposium Goals:
-Raise awareness within our target audience of the relationships between climate change and health and the science supporting those relationships.
-Provide a range of solutions from individual behavior change to regional and global policies to stabilize the climate.

Target Audience:
This activity is intended for:
-Physicians, Nurses, Public Health Practice professionals

Dr. Blodgett describes how government public health agencies and public health workers will function after a disaster and discusses the many duties that sanitarians must perform after a disaster.

After listening to the audio, viewing the slides, and taking this presentation’s knowledge assessment, you will be able to:
• Describe how "traditional" public health skills may be applied in emergency response
• Define crisis management and consequence management
• Describe NIMS and ICS
• Describe the National Strategic Stockpile and how supplies are distributed