Public Health Emergency Preparedness & Response

Public Health 257B (fall, 2010): Public Health Preparedness & Emergency Response is a one semester, intensive introduction to public health emergency preparedness and response, and covers the following topic areas: the role of public health in disasters; natural disasters and severe weather; intentional mass threats (CBRNE); biosurveillance: detecting and monitoring public health threat; post-disaster sampling, surveys, and rapid needs assessments; public health emergency incident management system; emergency operations planning and exercises; infectious disease emergency readiness; environmental health emergency readiness; mental health emergency readiness; special needs and vulnerable populations; public health crisis leadership and risk communication; conducting outbreaks investigations; disaster medicine and mass casualty care; and personal and community disaster preparedness.

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Course materials

Syllabus

• Download 2010 course syllabus

Textbooks and Technical Guidance

• Johns Hopkins and Red Cross/Red Crescent. Public Health Guide for Emergencies. The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, 2008 (Download Page)
• Lindell MK, Prater CS, Perry RW, Nicholson WC. Fundamentals of Emergency Management. FEMA, 2006 (Download page)
• Trust for America's Health, Ready or Not? 2009 Protecting the Public's Health from Disease, Disasters, and Bioterrorism (Download page)
• Department of Homeland Security, National Response Framework Resource Center: (Download page)
• Pan American Health Organization (Disaster page)
• WHO Health Library for Disasters (Home page)

Topics and Readings

08/03/10: Overview and the Role of Public Health in Disasters (Tomás Aragón)

Required reading

• Nelson C, Lurie N, Wasserman J, Zakowski S. Conceptualizing and defining public health emergency preparedness. Am J Public Health. 2007 Apr;97 Suppl 1:S9-11. Epub 2007 Apr 5. (PMID: 17413078)
• Noji EK. Public health in the aftermath of disasters. BMJ. 2005 Jun 11;330(7504):1379-81. Review. (PMID: 15947402)
• Nelson C, Lurie N, Wasserman J. Assessing public health emergency preparedness: concepts, tools, and challenges. Annu Rev Public Health. 2007;28:1-18. Review. (PMID: 17129174)

Enrichment reading

• Lindell MK, Prater CS, Perry RW, Nicholson WC. Chapter 5: "Principal Hazards in the United States" in Fundamentals of Emergency Management. FEMA, 2006 (Download page)
• Redmond, A. D. Natural disasters. BMJ, 2005, 330, 1259-1261. (PMID: 15920130)
• Introduction, Sections 1, and Section 4 from: Trust for America's Health, Ready or Not? 2009 Protecting the Public's Health from Disease, Disasters, and Bioterrorism (Download page)
• Noji EK, Toole MJ. The historical development of public health responses to disaster. Disasters. 1997 Dec;21(4):366-76. (PMID: 9455008)
• Noji EK. Public health issues in disasters. Crit Care Med. 2005 Jan;33(1 Suppl):S29-33. (PMID: 15640676)
• Noji EK. Disasters: Introduction and state of the art. Epidemiol Rev. 2005;27:3-8. (PMID: 15958421)
• Lurie N, Wasserman J, Nelson CD. Public health preparedness: Evolution or revolution? Health Aff (Millwood). 2006 Jul-Aug;25(4):935-45. (PMID: 16835172)
• Moore S, Mawji A, Shiell A, Noseworthy T. Public health preparedness: A systems-level approach. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2007 Apr;61(4):282-6. Review. (PMID: 17372286)
• Barnett DJ, Balicer RD, Lucey DR, Everly GS Jr, Omer SB, Steinhoff MC, Grotto I. A systematic analytic approach to pandemic influenza preparedness planning. PLoS Med. 2005 Dec;2(12):e359. Epub 2005 Nov 1. Review. (PMID: 16255619)

08/03/10: Introduction to Emergency Management Systems (Michael Petrie)

Required reading

• Petrie MG. Introduction to Emergency Management Systems: (Download PDF Slides)
• Lindell MK, Prater CS, Perry RW, Nicholson WC. Chapter 1: "Introduction to Emergency Management" in Fundamentals of Emergency Management. FEMA, 2006 (Download page)

Enrichment reading

• California State Emergency Plan, 2009 (Download PDF)
• Lindell MK, Prater CS, Perry RW, Nicholson WC. Chapter 2: "Emergency Stakeholders" in Fundamentals of Emergency Management. FEMA, 2006 (Download page)
• Lindell MK, Prater CS, Perry RW, Nicholson WC. Chapter 3: "Building an Effective Emergency Management Organization" in Fundamentals of Emergency Management. FEMA, 2006 (Download page)

09/07/10: Concepts for Controlling Microbial Threats (Tomás Aragón)

Required reading

• pending

Enrichment reading

• pending

Community Emergency Response Training

Donata Nilsen

Introduction to Incident Command System

Michael Petrie

• Petrie MG. Introduction to Emergency Incident Management Systems. (Download PDF Slides | PDF Handout)
• Annelli JF. The national incident management system: A multi-agency approach to emergency response in the United States of America. Rev Sci Tech. 2006 Apr;25(1):223-31. Review. (PMID: 16796051)
• IS-100 - Intro to ICS for Healthcare/Hospitals (ICS 100) (Online course)
• Kristine Qureshi, Kristine M. Gebbie, Eric N. Gebbie. Public Health Incident Command System (PHICS): Implementing ICS Within Public Health Agencies. (Download page)

Infectious Disease Emergency Response Plan and ICS

Olivia Bruch

Public Health Ethics in Disaster Preparedness and Response

Harvey Kayman

Disaster Preparedness for Vulnerable Communities

Ana-Marie Jones

• Disaster Preparedness: The Prepare to Prosper Approach for Vulnerable Communities (Download PDF)
• Andrulis D, Siddiqui N, Purtle J. California’s Emergency Preparedness Efforts for Culturally Diverse Communities: Status, Challenges, and Directions for the Future. Drexel University School of Public Health Center for Health Equality, 2009 (Download PDF)

Mass Care, Emergency Assistance, Housing, and Human Services

Howard Backer

• Emergency Support Function #6 – Mass Care, Emergency Assistance, Housing, and Human Services (Download PDF)
• American Red Cross. Northern California Concept of Operations: Annex to the All Hazards Plan. July 2007 (Download PDF)

Disaster Mental Health Preparedness and Response

David Wee

• Chapter 1 in Myers D, Wee DF. Disasters in Mental Health Services: A Primer for Practitioners (Series in Psychosocial Stress), Routledge; 1st edition, 2005)
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Infectious Disease Emergency Preparedness and Response

Tomás Aragón

Post-Disaster Sampling, Surveys, and Rapid Health Assessments

Neil Maizlish

• Maizlich N. A Toolkit for Rapic Epidemiologic Assessment Using 30 by 7 Cluster Samples (Download Slides | Toolkit (pending))
• Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Community Assessment for Public Health Emergency Response (CASPER) Toolkit. Atlanta (GA): CDC; 2009. (Download PDF)
• Malilay J, Flanders WD, Brogan D. A modified cluster-sampling method for post-disaster rapid assessment of needs. Bull World Health Organ. 1996;74(4):399-405. (PMID: 8823962)

Homeland Security Exercise & Evaluation Program

Michael Petrie

Environmental Health Disaster Preparedness and Response

Rick Kreutzer

Risk Communication for Emergency Preparedness & Response

Linda Neuhauser

Complex Humanitarian Emergencies

Chris Stewart

• Salama P, Spiegel P, Talley L, Waldman R. Lessons learned from complex emergencies over past decade. Lancet. 2004 Nov 13-19;364(9447):1801-13. (PMID: 15541455)
• The Sphere Project: Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response (Home Page)
• Johns Hopkins and Red Cross/Red Crescent. Public Health Guide for Emergencies. The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, 2008 (Download Page)

Essentials of Emergency Project Management

Tomás Aragón