4110.0: Tuesday, November 18, 2003: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| In 2002, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention distributed approximately one billion dollars through a cooperative agreement to State, territorial, and local health departments to upgrade public health capacities to respond to terrorism, outbreaks of infectious diseases, and other public health threats and emergencies. Cooperative agreement recipients are developing and enhancing critical capacities across seven focus areas: 1) strategic direction and coordination, 2) epidemiology and surveillance, 3) laboratory capacity for biologic agents, 4) laboratory capacity for chemical terrorism, 5) information technology and information dissemination, 6) risk communication, and 7) education and training. In order to monitor and evaluate achievement of these critical capacities, as well as the response capability of public health, CDC has developed a tiered approach to program evaluation. The panel will discuss the development of the evaluation strategy and framework, key process measures and performance indicators for public health preparedness, and linkages with other federal preparedness assessment efforts. | |||
| Learning Objectives: After the presentation, participants will be able to: 1. Describe the strategy and framework that will be implemented to evaluate CDC’s cooperative agreements for public health preparedness for terrorism, outbreaks of infectious diseases, and other public health threats and emergencies. 2. Discuss the challenges of developing and implementing an evaluation of public health preparedness at the federal, state, and local levels. 3. Gain an understanding of CDC’s priorities for ongoing monitoring and evaluation of cooperative agreement recipient capacity. | |||
| Randy Louchart, RN, MPH Lynn Gibbs Scharf, MPH Anne T. Fidler, ScD | |||
| Organized by: | APHA-Innovations Project | ||
| CE Credits: | Pharmacy | ||