Recap
The National Association of County and City Health Officials' workshop in April 2024 helped increase the collective capacity of programs in areas affected by 2022 Hurricanes Fiona and Ian. The theme for our workshop, Managing Mosquitoes in Disaster Situations: Best Practices and Partnerships, emphasized the challenges and opportunities of managing mosquitoes in disaster situations, such as hurricanes, floods, or epidemics. It also focused on the best practices and partnerships that can help vector control professionals like you to implement and maintain effective integrated vector management programs.
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Local vector control programs in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, and Puerto Rico affected by 2022 Hurricanes Fiona and Ian were invited to participate. See photos here.
The workshop instructed low-resource, impacted jurisdictions on how to detect, prevent, prepare for, and respond to mosquito-borne diseases. Participants learned the essentials of implementing and maintaining a surveillance program, key considerations for vector control both pre- and post-hurricane, and best practices for data use and risk communication. They got to engage with colleagues and counterparts from across the region as well as with vector-borne disease experts from the state, federal, and industry levels.