Strategic National Stockpile
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Public Health Meeting Catastrophic Demand with Timely Interventions
NACCHO has partnered with the Center for Excellence in Healthcare Emergency Management to provide a free, thirty-minute web program, "Public Vaccination Clinics: Driving up Participation with Incentives." This program is now showing on LEAPS.TV. On-demand reruns are available 24/7 for the next four weeks. Click here to view the program, take a quiz, ask questions, and/or receive a certificate for .5 CEUs. This program is designed to help local health departments think about how to use other services available at the health department or in the community as incentives to increase vaccination clinic participation and reduce stress during wait times. LEAPS.TV is a Law Enforcement and Public Safety online learning site. Through partnerships with agencies such as NACCHO, LEAPS is bringing new emergency management, fire, and public health programming alongside law enforcement education related to recent and relevant public safety threats. These partnerships aim to bring new ideas and profession specific expertise to a wider public safety audience. More »
President Obama Signs
Executive Order 13527, Government to Use the United States Postal Service to Deploy the SNS Medical Countermeasures to Cities It is an exciting time in the world of preparedness planning, especially in the world of medical countermeasures. After the first ever deployment of the SNS for the H1N1 response, there have been many other developments around emergency countermeasures. There is the improved BARDA medical countermeasure development enterprise, the closure of the Amerithrax investigation, the National Health Security Strategy, the failing grade reports given to U.S. biopreparedness, and the recent executive order by the President. This executive order, aimed directly at the SNS, is broken up into three main directives. These directives instruct HHS to do the following:
For the full story on what this executive order means for LHDs, as well as these other stories of note and how NACCHO is interacting with them, please check back this week for our soon to be published SNS news page. 
The 2010 Public Health Preparedness Summit offered many Strategic National Stockpile related workshops and sessions that are of use to local health planners on such topics as: drive-thru point-of-dispensing modeling, volunteer recruitment, ethical considerations, countermeasure development, and many more. For a recap of the SNS-related sessions offered, click here. To help SNS planners that were not able to attend these important sessions and would like a taste of the sessions, we have included a set of links to the SNS session materials. This list includes all of the workshops from the above schedule where the presenters have given permission to distribute materials online. More » Is your agency prepared to receive the SNS?  STOCKbox is an online source for SNS-related tools and resources developed and shared by SNS preparedness planners. Used a tool you found in STOCKbox? Rate it! With this exciting new feature, you can rate individual tools by giving them one to five stars as well as add comments on the tool's usefulness. Visit and bookmark STOCKbox at www.naccho.org/stockbox or click here to learn more.  The SNS project has developed four practical references highlighting alternative methods of dispensing that are useful for local health departments that would like to utilize a similar model in their response plans. The highlights include background information, pros and cons of utilizing the model, and the costs and resources needed to implement the model. Click on the following links to read the highlight articles: |
