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All-Hazards Preparedness in Responding to the California Wildfires
Southern California continues to recover from over a dozen wildfires across San Diego County occurring in mid-May. The fires were...
Jun 17, 2014 | Admin
Pandemic Planning and Preparedness Training
NACCHO staff attended a three day Pandemic Planning and Preparedness training at the Center for Domestic Preparedness in Anniston,...
Jun 10, 2014 | Lisa Brown
Project Public Health Ready (PPHR) May Update
During the month of May, NACCHO staff provided technical assistance to reviewers of three PPHR resubmission applications. These...
Jun 05, 2014 | Rachel Schulman
Operation Medical Base Exercise
From May 1-3, NACCHO staff attended the 2014 Operation Medical Base Exercise in Camarillo, CA, hosted by Ventura County Public Health....
Jun 04, 2014 | Admin
Incident Management Workgroup April Report
In lieu of an April call, members of the Incident Management Workgroup attended and participated in the NACCHO webinar,...
May 07, 2014 | Rachel Schulman
NACCHO MRC Volunteer Core Competency Ad Hoc Workgroup Meeting
On April 17-18, members of NACCHO’s Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) Volunteer Core Competency Ad Hoc Workgroup met to continue its work...
May 06, 2014 | Kim Grimmick
The Medical Reserve Corps: A National Network of Volunteers Building Local Capacity
By Stacy Stanford, MSPH, Senior Program Analyst; and Frances Bevington, Senior Marketing and Communications Specialist, Public Health...
May 01, 2014 | Stacy Stanford
Public Health Law Workgroup April Report
This month, representatives from NACCHO’s Public Health Law Workgroup and other public health law partners delivered a session at the...
Apr 29, 2014 | Guest Author
Public Health Emergency Law Minimum Competencies
Apr 29, 2014 | Guest Author
All-Hazards Preparedness in Responding to the California WildfiresSouthern California continues to recover from over a dozen wildfires across San Diego County occurring in mid-May. The fires were fueled by drought conditions, unusually high temperatures, and strong Santa Ana winds—hot, dry gusts of wind that can turn small fires or mechanical sparks into blazing infernos. As a result of 14 fires, about 26,000 […] Jun 17, 2014 | Admin |
Pandemic Planning and Preparedness TrainingNACCHO staff attended a three day Pandemic Planning and Preparedness training at the Center for Domestic Preparedness in Anniston, Alabama. The training provided the tools necessary to assemble an effective pandemic planning and preparedness program. Specifically, the course looked at the response actions of various response disciplines as they relate to crisis communications, contact management,... Jun 10, 2014 | Lisa Brown |
Project Public Health Ready (PPHR) May UpdateDuring the month of May, NACCHO staff provided technical assistance to reviewers of three PPHR resubmission applications. These resubmissions came from agencies provisionally recognized or not recognized during the fall 2013 review. NACCHO staff also assisted PPHR state leads with setting their in-state technical reviews to prepare for application submission, including assistance with training... Jun 05, 2014 | Rachel Schulman |
Operation Medical Base ExerciseFrom May 1-3, NACCHO staff attended the 2014 Operation Medical Base Exercise in Camarillo, CA, hosted by Ventura County Public Health. The 48-hour full-scale exercise brought together nearly 1,500 people throughout the state of California, including county and state agencies, military units, 15 MRC units, Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) volunteers, eight local hospitals, and […] Jun 04, 2014 | Admin |
Incident Management Workgroup April ReportIn lieu of an April call, members of the Incident Management Workgroup attended and participated in the NACCHO webinar, “Response and Recovery During and Environmental Disaster: Learning from the Elk River Chemical Spill” on April 22. Workgroup members also conducted a learning session entitled “Managing an Escalating Public Health Incident: A Tabletop Exercise” on April... May 07, 2014 | Rachel Schulman |
NACCHO MRC Volunteer Core Competency Ad Hoc Workgroup MeetingOn April 17-18, members of NACCHO’s Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) Volunteer Core Competency Ad Hoc Workgroup met to continue its work with developing a conceptual framework for training and development activities for the MRC network. Members of the group took what was learned from the February in-person meeting and additional areas of research presented at its […] May 06, 2014 | Kim Grimmick |
The Medical Reserve Corps: A National Network of Volunteers Building Local CapacityBy Stacy Stanford, MSPH, Senior Program Analyst; and Frances Bevington, Senior Marketing and Communications Specialist, Public Health Preparedness, NACCHO On April 21, 2014, NACCHO released the report of findings and data from the 2013 Network Profile of the Medical Reserve Corps, a first of its kind study that provides insights into this national network of […] May 01, 2014 | Stacy Stanford |
Public Health Law Workgroup April ReportThis month, representatives from NACCHO’s Public Health Law Workgroup and other public health law partners delivered a session at the 2014 Preparedness Summit to a packed room. This session, Hot Legal Topics in Preparedness, covered issues like volunteer liability, radiation legal preparedness, judge training sessions, HIPAA, and information sharing during disaster, and the CDC’s new […] Apr 29, 2014 | Guest Author |
Public Health Emergency Law Minimum CompetenciesApr 29, 2014 | Guest Author |
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