Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response
ACPM is offering a series of 12 courses on Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response, covering a range of critical topics. The learners will have an opportunity to acquire new knowledge or refresh key concepts and related perspectives to be better informed and equipped and contribute to the planning and response of public health emergencies.
Incident Command System - Operational, Regulatory and Related Perspectives.
This is the first course in the series focused on Incident Command System - Operational, Regulatory and Related Perspectives.
Outcome Objectives
Describe the rationale for and utility of the National Incident Management System (NIMS)
Describe the basic organizational structure of the Incident Command System (ICS) and its functional components
Define the relevance of NIMS and ICS principles to public health emergencies.
Contrast Unified Command and Area Command
Name the essential facilities in the context of Incident Management
Describe the relevance of NIMS/ICS features for facilitating public health crisis risk communication
Health Readiness for Emergencies and Disasters: Conceptual and Operational Perspectives
Outcome Objectives
Describe the four phases of the ‘disaster life cycle’ and their respective relevance to health emergency and disaster preparedness
Identify three transformative events that have shaped public health preparedness since 2001
Describe the relevance of the public health emergency preparedness system to emergency and disaster readiness
Describe the relevance of disaster exercises and evaluation to health readiness and response
Characterize the pertinence of ‘willingness to respond’ with regard to readiness for emergencies and disasters
Disease Outbreak and Surveillance Systems
This is the third course in the series focused on Disease Outbreak and Surveillance Systems
Outcome Objectives
•Define an outbreak
•Describe the steps of an outbreak investigation
•Describe the cycle of outbreak control and prevention
•Define public health surveillance
•Describe the goal of public health surveillance
•Describe the uses of a public health surveillance system
•Recognize the legal basis for public health surveillance in the US
•Compare active and passive public health surveillance
•Identify sources of data commonly used for public health surveillance
•Describe the public health surveillance process
General Communications
This is the fourth course in the series focused on General Communications (Methods and Modes)
Outcome Objectives
Identify the role of a public health department/officer in responding to a public health emergency
Recognize the role of federal assistance available in a public health emergency
Identify the role of medical countermeasures in community protection.
Recognize how the Strategic National Stockpile functions in a community’s countermeasures plan
Risk Communications
This is the fifth course in the series focused on Risk Communications
Outcome Objectives
Define various aspects of “risk.”
Describe the basic attributes of risk communication.
Describe the different approaches used in risk communication.
Describe attributes of “crisis” communications.
Stockpiles and Limitations
This is the sixth course in the series focused on Stockpiles and Limitations
Outcome Objectives
Identify the role of a public health department/officer in responding to a public health emergency
Recognize the role of federal assistance available in a public health emergency
Identify the role of medical countermeasures in community protection.
Recognize how the Strategic National Stockpile functions in a community’s countermeasures plan
Natural Disasters
This is the seventh course in the series focused on Natural Disasters
Outcome Objectives
•Identify the 18 natural hazards outlined by FEMA
•Review FEMA’s all-hazard approach to disasters
•Discuss the epidemiology, economic impact, and human cost of natural disasters focusing on billion-dollar plus events
•Review key information about Hurricanes and Wildfires
•Discuss examples of a public health response to a Hurricane by FEMA Phase
Exposures
This is the eighth course in the series focused on Exposures
Overview of presentation
Review of concepts
Definitions
Organs and physiology and toxicology
Categories of exposures and what to consider
Vaccine Considerations in Emergency Preparedness
This is the ninth course in the series focused on Vaccine Considerations in Emergency Preparedness
Outcome Objectives
1.Understand the importance of planning prior to a crisis (includng having and evaluating plans and running drills)
2.Describe the importance of collaboration
3.Increase vaccine confidence (via infodemic management and crisis communication)
Food, Water and Housing Insecurity
This is the tenth course in the series focused on Food, Water, Housing Insecurity
Outcome Objectives
•Describe public health regulation/control of food, housing, water under normal conditions
•Prioritize key elements of these systems to assess and maintain in an emergency
•Understand how physical needs priorities may shift over time