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Public Health Emergency Preparedness Training


This major initiative at MCPH focuses on the coordination of all public health emergency preparedness training efforts for the state of Maine. The Center has been involved in this endeavor beginning in 2004 with the award of a Maine CDC grant to develop a train the trainer program in partnership with Harvard School of Public Health Center for Public Health Preparedness. We continue to work in partnership with Harvard and the three Regional Resource Centers as well as the Training Committee for Medical, Behavioral and Public Health Emergency Preparedness. This committee includes members from UNE, Maine Primary Care Association, the state HTLE laboratory and other collaborators and supporters throughout the state.

To date we have held three annual statewide conferences with focus on SARS, the Gulf Hurricanes, and Reaching Vulnerable populations in a Public Health Emergencies.  We continue to offer Avian flu table top exercises with the goal of reaching all counties in Maine with this training.  The Advanced Clinical Aspects to Emergency Preparedness training has been widely successful and has been requested to be repeated annually. It is the goal of the Maine CDC and of the Maine Center for Public Health to work with the stakeholders to provide as many public health emergency preparedness trainings as funding allows.
Funder: Department of Health and Human Services, Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (MeCDC)
Products/Related Documents:

Relevant Links:

 

Maine Office of Public Health Emergency Preparedness

 

CDC Emergency Preparedness and Response

 

HSPH Emergency Preparedness Monthly

 
Online Educational Courses:

The following online educational courses have been reviewed for scientific accuracy and content by the scientific core at the Harvard School of  Public Health Center for Public Health Preparedness. As part of the educational initiative in Maine, these courses will offer a alternative method of training to practitioners who seek an additional means of education.

 

Age & Preparedness:

"Maine's Elders and Emergencies - Working for the Future"

 

View Brochure

Enroll in the course

Username: Elder

Password: Elder

 

Bioterrorism:

http://healthlinks.washington.edu/nwcphp/edu/index.html#bt

http://www.bioterrorism.uab.edu/

 

Radiation:

www.sph.emory.edu/media/RadNuc/

http://www.bt.cdc.gov/radiation/justintime.asp

 

HAZMAT:

http://www.sph.unc.edu/nccphp/training/cw_protect/certificate.htm

 

Personal Protective Equipment:

http://www.free-training.com/osha/ppe/Intro/Direct.htm

 

Incident Command System:

http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/is100LE.asp (IS 700)

 

Basic Epidemiological Investigation:

http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/bioter/bioterrorism.html

 
 

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