5151.0 Topics in Public Health Preparedness

Wednesday, November 7, 2007: 2:30 PM
Oral
This session offers a range of presentations on competencies, partnershps, and lessons learned regarding public health preparedness efforts between academia, health agencies, and community partners.
Session Objectives: Discuss Articulate public health preparedness competencies Describe an example of a public health preparedness exercise
Facilitator:
Jennifer Solis, MPH

2:30 PM
State courts and public health: Building partnerships to enhance preparedness in Pennsylvania
Patricia Sweeney, JD, MPH, RN
  
2:45 PM
Updating public health emergency preparedness competencies using needs assessment and training development information
Lisle Hites, PhD
     
3:00 PM
Partnerships for emergency preparedness: An academic and public health practice collaboration for needs assessment and course development
Amy N. Sarigiannis, MPH, Thomas Reischl, PhD and Craig Massey, MA, MS, Major
     
3:15 PM
Lessons learned from a pilot online course on pandemic influenza preparedness for local health departments in North Carolina
Molly McKnight Lynch, MPH candidate, Mary Davis, Dr PH, MSPH, Richard Rosselli, MPH, Lorraine K. Alexander, DrPH, MPH and Kristina Simeonsson, MD, MSPH
  
3:30 PM
A simple and effective point of distribution (POD) functional exercise
Andrew C. Rucks, PhD, Peter M. Ginter, PhD, Lisle Hites, PhD and Lisa C. McCormick, MPH
     

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Academic Public Health Caucus

CE Credits: CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

See more of: Academic Public Health Caucus
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