Public Health Preparedness "Mini" Grant Project
Innovative Solutions in Public Health Preparedness
On September 29, 2009, the City of Milwaukee Health Department, the San Francisco Department of Public Health, and the Ware County Board of Health presented a webinar showcasing recently developed resources and how they can enhance the preparedness planning efforts of local health departments (LHDs) nationwide in the "Innovative Solutions in Public Health Preparedness" webinar. From learning more about legal guidelines and templates necessary for an LHD to respond effectively during a communicable disease outbreak; to working with your business community in developing and running closed Points of Dispensing; to adopting risk communication resources designed specifically for rural jurisdictions, this archived webinar will be sure to fill gaps in your own preparedness planning and assist your health department in thinking through important issues related to the current H1N1 outbreak. In order to view this archived webinar, please click here: NACCHO recently funded three local health departments (LHDs) to develop and implement public health preparedness projects within their communities. These sites developed projects based on an identified gap within the APC portfolio or built upon an existing tool or resource produced by the APC program. Their final resources will be featured here once they are available. City of Milwaukee Health Department, WI The City of Milwaukee Health Department serves an urban population of 600,000. Working to expand containment measure guidelines beyond isolation and quarantine, the goal of their project is to develop a series of legal guidelines and templates for use by other local health departments responding to communicable diseases. The toolkit includes legal guidelines on various topics, including:
The final toolkit is available on a CD-ROM or accessible through a dedicated Web site which can be accessed here. San Francisco Department of Public Health, CA The San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) serves an urban, daytime population of 1.2 million. Recognizing that LHDs cannot solely rely on Points of Distribution (PODs) to dispense antibiotics to entire communities, the SFDPH believes that pushing antibiotics into communities through partners, such as businesses and organizations, will reduce the burden on PODs and increase dispensing efficiency. The goal of their project was to create a high-quality training curriculum for Push Partners (a.k.a. Closed PODs) that can be easily adapted or implemented within a variety of businesses and organizations. The Train the Trainer Guide for Push Partners toolkit is available online. The toolkit includes:
To access this toolkit, and to download related documents and forms, please click here. Ware County Board of Health/Southeast Health District, GA The Ware County Board of Health, in conjunction with Southeast Health District of Georgia, serves a largely rural population of approximately 340,000. Understanding that communities such as Ware County face vastly different challenges than urban areas in managing risk communication, their project focused on developing risk communication resources for rural areas. Their final toolkit is currently available online and will be available soon through a CD–ROM. The final product includes:
To view the toolkit online, please click here. |