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Public Health Emergency Exercise Toolkit

Keywords / Description:

This HSEEP-consistent public health emergency exercise toolkit is a guide for local health department staff who develop, implement and evaluate emergency drills and exercises.  It is also useful when facilitating public health aspects of multi-agency emergency exercises.

Toolkit Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Exercise Planning and Principles in Public Health
• Exercise Cycle and Organization
• Types of Exercises The Exercise Planning Process
• Scenario Development Steps
• Developing an Evaluation Plan
• Developing Exercise Briefing
• Materials
• Conducting the Exercise
• Moving from Observation to Evaluation
• References and Resources
• Appendices

Toolkit:

PPHR Toolkit

Keyword Area:

After Action Reports, All-Hazards

Jurisdiction:

Institutional Author:

The Center for Health Policy at Columbia University School of Nursing

Submitted:

08/14/2006

Modified:

03/26/2007

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