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Countermeasures Needed to Overcome the MCM Operational Readiness Review
WANTED: Resources to Help State and Locals Defeat the Medical Countermeasure Operational Readiness Review As budget period 4 (BP4)...
Aug 13, 2015 | Raymond Puerini
CDC Releases Training Schedule for Upcoming Year
Registration is now open for the fall quarter Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) Preparedness Course and the Mass Antibiotic...
Aug 13, 2015 | Raymond Puerini
CDC Meals on Wheels Project Needs Resources to Enhance MCM Dispensing Plans
Trusted community partners are critical to serving the entire community and saving lives in a public health emergency. Meals on Wheels...
Jul 15, 2015 | Raymond Puerini
Local Health Department Engages in Pharmacy Preparedness Exercise
By Mary Wakefield, Intern, Environmental Health, Pandemic Preparedness, and Catastrophic Response, NACCHO For most people, visiting a...
Jun 25, 2015 | Guest Author
CDC Develops Medical Countermeasure Inventory Data Exchange
By Barbara Nichols, CDC Office of Public Health Scientific Services, Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology and Laboratory Services,...
Jun 11, 2015 | Guest Author
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
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
New Article Encourages Preparedness Professionals to Gain Skills, Not Stuff
In a new article authored for Domestic Preparedness, Andrew Roszak, senior director for environmental health, pandemic preparedness,...
Mar 12, 2015 | Katie Regan
Countermeasures Needed to Overcome the MCM Operational Readiness ReviewWANTED: Resources to Help State and Locals Defeat the Medical Countermeasure Operational Readiness Review As budget period 4 (BP4) grant year gets underway, many state and local health departments have begun preparations for the Medical Countermeasure Operational Readiness Review (MCM ORR) in their jurisdiction. With many local health departments completing the ORR for the first […] Aug 13, 2015 | Raymond Puerini |
CDC Releases Training Schedule for Upcoming YearRegistration is now open for the fall quarter Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) Preparedness Course and the Mass Antibiotic Dispensing Train-the-Trainer (MADT) Course. The courses are hosted by the CDC’s Division of Strategic National Stockpile (DSNS) in partnership with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) at its Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) campus in Anniston, AL.... Aug 13, 2015 | Raymond Puerini |
CDC Meals on Wheels Project Needs Resources to Enhance MCM Dispensing PlansTrusted community partners are critical to serving the entire community and saving lives in a public health emergency. Meals on Wheels brings community connectedness, social support, and decreased anxiety to the home-bound population [1]. It’s more than just providing a meal! As a trusted partner, Meals on Wheels can help public health agencies provide emergency medications to […] Jul 15, 2015 | Raymond Puerini |
Local Health Department Engages in Pharmacy Preparedness ExerciseBy Mary Wakefield, Intern, Environmental Health, Pandemic Preparedness, and Catastrophic Response, NACCHO For most people, visiting a Costco Warehouse means getting a great deal, but soon enough it could also mean receiving medical countermeasures in an emergency. On June 4th, 2015, the Costco Warehouse in Prince William County, VA, pilot tested a new program to […] Jun 25, 2015 | Guest Author |
CDC Develops Medical Countermeasure Inventory Data ExchangeBy Barbara Nichols, CDC Office of Public Health Scientific Services, Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology and Laboratory Services, Division of Health Informatics and Surveillance; and Benjamin Erickson, CDC Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response, Division of Strategic National Stockpile In response to inventory and tracking needs identified during the 2009 H1N1 Influenza pandemic, the... Jun 11, 2015 | Guest Author |
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 |
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 |
New Article Encourages Preparedness Professionals to Gain Skills, Not StuffIn a new article authored for Domestic Preparedness, Andrew Roszak, senior director for environmental health, pandemic preparedness, and catastrophic response at NACCHO, encourages preparedness professionals to stop measuring their readiness by the amount of stuff stockpiled, and to instead measure it by capacity to recognize triggers, activate systems, and perform essential tasks. Additionally,... Mar 12, 2015 | Katie Regan |
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