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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:

Best Practices in Emergency Volunteer Management - April 15, 2008
2007 Conference Final Report: "Reaching Vulnerable Populations in Public Health Emergencies"- April 10, 2007
Maine's Training Plan July 1, 2006 – June 30, 2009
Proposed Trainings by Audience, Topic and Organization 2006-2009
Public Health and Rural America: Ready AND Not! Compelling Stories from the Front Lines of Public Health Preparedness in Rural America and Lessons for Policymakers.

Read the full report here 2.18MB

Download the 2-page policy summary paper here

For more information, contact Paul Kuehnert at: Paul.Kuehnert@gmail.com or call: 630-444-3021

HSPH-CPHP Training & Education Products

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"

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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