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South
Carolina Training Resources
for Public Health, Terrorism & Disaster Preparedness
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bio, chemical, agro terrorism |
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human & animal disease control |
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natural & man-made disasters |
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emergency management |
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water & food contamination |
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radiation/nuclear exposure |
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Links
See below for relevant links for public health, terrorism and disaster
preparedness, including links to government
agencies and online emergency resources.
SC Links:
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Federal Links:
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Other Links:
- Academic
Center for Public Health Preparedness (A-CPHP)
- Agency
for Healthcare Research & Quality
Provides resource
information and continuing education about rare emerging infections
and potential bioterrorist agents to healthcare professionals.
- American
Veterinary Medical Association - Disaster Preparedness Site
- Association
of Schools of Public Health
- Public
Health Preparedness Resource Center
The PHPRC is a free online catalog of courses and training
activities, degree and certificate programs, events and many
other products. This information is intended for both public
health professionals to assure information on trainings developed
by schools of public health are accessible to the public health
workforce and for course developers to ensure that best practices
are shared, thereby minimizing duplication of efforts. Areas
of focus are bioterrorism, emergency preparedness, and other
public health threats and emergencies. The PHPRC has been
redesigned for better user-ability, including more search
categories, highly defined searches, and active links.
- Center
for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
(UPMC)
The UPMC Biosecurity
team is comprised of the same people who founded the premier,
non-governmental website for information on bioterrorism planning
and response, www.hopkins-biodefense.org.
- EDEN:
The Extension Disaster Education Network
EDEN links Extension educators from across the U.S. and various
disciplines, enabling them to use and share resources to reduce
the impact of disasters. From food safety to field safety, from
the physical to the psychological, and from governmental process
to community development, EDEN has resources you can use.
- NACCHO
(National Association of County & City Health Officials)
- BT
Create - A
Customizable Bioterrorism Tabletop Exercise Builder
This interactive CD provides a guidance document that will
lead you through the critical areas of tabletop exercise design
and development, while helping educate, inform and assist
emergency response communities as they prepare for and respond
to bioterrorism, other outbreaks of infectious disease, and
other public health threats and emergencies.
- Public
Health Ready
A collaborative
activity between NACCHO, the Center for Health Policy at the
Columbia University School of Nursing, and the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, Public Health Practice Program
Office, Office of Workforce Policy and Planning. Mission:
To prepare staff of local governmental public health agencies
to respond and protect the public’s health through a
competency-based training and certification program.
- National
Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism
- National
Plant Diagnostics Network's First Detector Training Modules
The web based modules available here provide both general and
specific information on biosecurity and potential threats.
- RAND
Public Health Preparedness Database
This website
contains a searchable database of exercises used to evaluate public
health preparedness. The materials contained in this website were
designed to help state and local public health officials identify
and evaluate exercises to be used in preparedness activities in
their local areas.
- United
Nations Disaster Management Training Programme (DMTP)
- University
of Alabama at Birmingham Center for Disaster Preparedness (CDP)
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