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April 2015 Preparedness Committee Meeting
On Monday, April 13, 2015, NACCHO’s Preparedness Committee – which is comprised of the chairs of the seven preparedness workgroups –...
Apr 28, 2015 | Katie Dwyer
Fred the Preparedness Dog Conducts Interview for NACCHO Podcast Series
Fred the Preparedness Dog has been all over the 2015 Preparedness Summit, meeting fellow public health professionals, attending...
Apr 16, 2015 | Katie Regan
2015 Preparedness Summit Begins With Opening Plenary on Emerging Threats
The 2015 Preparedness Summit began on Tuesday, April 14, with an opening plenary by Mike Walker, Senior Consultant at the Naval...
Apr 15, 2015 | Mary Hodges
Local Health Department Considers the 49th Hour through Long-Term Mass Prophylaxis...
Anthrax response plans, exercises, and assessments over the past decade have focused almost exclusively on the first 48 hours of the...
Apr 09, 2015 | Raymond Puerini
White House Fact Sheet Details Actions to Protect Communities from the Impacts of...
A new White House fact sheet released as part of National Public Health Week outlines a series of actions the Obama administration is...
Apr 08, 2015 | Katie Regan
Smallpox Vaccines: CDC Guidance and Preparedness Tabletop Exercise
By Jennifer Alton, Vice President of Government Affairs, Bavarian Nordic The tragic Ebola outbreak in West Africa is a contemporary...
Apr 08, 2015 | Guest Author
Federal, State, and Local Panelists to Discuss the Operational Readiness Review at...
In the fall of 2014, a sampling of state and local jurisdictions participated as early adopters, completing the Medical Countermeasure...
Apr 07, 2015 | Raymond Puerini
The Preparedness Planning, Outcomes, and Measures (PPOM) Workgroup – March Report
The Preparedness Planning, Outcomes, and Measures (PPOM) workgroup held its monthly call on March 24. The call kicked-off with...
Apr 07, 2015 | Nicole Dunifon
Incident Management Workgroup March Report
NACCHO’s Incident Management workgroup held its monthly call on March 23. John Degnan, Public Health Emergency Response...
Apr 07, 2015 | Rachel Schulman
April 2015 Preparedness Committee MeetingOn Monday, April 13, 2015, NACCHO’s Preparedness Committee – which is comprised of the chairs of the seven preparedness workgroups – convened in Atlanta, Georgia before the 2015 Preparedness Summit. During the meeting, committee members discussed current and emerging preparedness priorities at the local level, opportunities for enhanced state and local collaboration, and the status […] Apr 28, 2015 | Katie Dwyer |
Fred the Preparedness Dog Conducts Interview for NACCHO Podcast SeriesFred the Preparedness Dog has been all over the 2015 Preparedness Summit, meeting fellow public health professionals, attending sessions, and even hosting one of his own. Fred, a 3-year-old German shepherd who works with the Kansas Department of Health and the Environment (KDHE) to teach children about family and pet preparedness, on Wednesday even sat […] Apr 16, 2015 | Katie Regan |
2015 Preparedness Summit Begins With Opening Plenary on Emerging ThreatsThe 2015 Preparedness Summit began on Tuesday, April 14, with an opening plenary by Mike Walker, Senior Consultant at the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security. Walker’s presentation focused on emerging threats that could have an extreme impact on the public health infrastructure of the United States and beyond. Walker noted the […] Apr 15, 2015 | Mary Hodges |
Local Health Department Considers the 49th Hour through Long-Term Mass Prophylaxis PlanningAnthrax response plans, exercises, and assessments over the past decade have focused almost exclusively on the first 48 hours of the public health response following a jurisdiction-wide exposure and provision of an initial 10-day supply of antibiotics from the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS). But mass dispensing of the subsequent 50-day course of antibiotics and administration […] Apr 09, 2015 | Raymond Puerini |
White House Fact Sheet Details Actions to Protect Communities from the Impacts of Climate ChangeA new White House fact sheet released as part of National Public Health Week outlines a series of actions the Obama administration is undertaking to better understand, communicate, and reduce the health impacts of climate change. These actions include: Convening stakeholders: The White House this week is holding a series of meetings with health and medical […] Apr 08, 2015 | Katie Regan |
Smallpox Vaccines: CDC Guidance and Preparedness Tabletop ExerciseBy Jennifer Alton, Vice President of Government Affairs, Bavarian Nordic The tragic Ebola outbreak in West Africa is a contemporary reminder that humans are vulnerable to infectious diseases and that preparedness must remain a top priority. But Ebola isn’t the only health threat facing the global community. Other biological airborne threats – including smallpox – […] Apr 08, 2015 | Guest Author |
Federal, State, and Local Panelists to Discuss the Operational Readiness Review at the 2015 Preparedness SummitIn the fall of 2014, a sampling of state and local jurisdictions participated as early adopters, completing the Medical Countermeasure Operational Readiness Review (MCM ORR) for the first time. The 2014 – 2015 year was a pilot year for the ORR tool and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) collected in-depth feedback data […] Apr 07, 2015 | Raymond Puerini |
The Preparedness Planning, Outcomes, and Measures (PPOM) Workgroup – March ReportThe Preparedness Planning, Outcomes, and Measures (PPOM) workgroup held its monthly call on March 24. The call kicked-off with workgroup members discussing a model practice that was submitted to NACCHO and assigned to the workgroup for review. NACCHO’s Model Practice Program honors and recognizes outstanding local health practices from across the nation and shares and […] Apr 07, 2015 | Nicole Dunifon |
Incident Management Workgroup March ReportNACCHO’s Incident Management workgroup held its monthly call on March 23. John Degnan, Public Health Emergency Response Coordinator for Eastern Highlands Health District, CT, led a discussion on the development of public health mission ready packages for the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC). Workgroup members also provided feedback to NACCHO on PHEP concurrence practices in... Apr 07, 2015 | Rachel Schulman |
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