PUBH X921 - Best Practices in Emergency Response
Description
*This Public Health Institute course will be online via Zoom and Canvas and will not be meeting in-person.*
Mickey Scullard, MPH, MEP
Public Health Emergency Preparedness Planner, Minnesota Department of Health
St. Paul, Minnesota
Best practices in public health preparedness and response are evolving and today’s best practices will be continually tested with new experiences and expertise. This course for public health professionals, emergency managers, public safety personnel and other health and human service providers responsible for preparedness planning, response and recovery is designed to provide participants with practical applications and tools to apply learning from real incidents. The course features panels of experts who have responded to natural disasters, mass casualty incidents, and/or infectious disease outbreaks. Panelists will present case studies from actual events and describe roles, responsibilities, actions and outcomes. Participants will work with course faculty and guest speakers to conduct after action analyses, describe positive outcomes and identify quality measures needed to improve future emergency response planning and actions. Practical and tested tools such as planning flow charts; templates for interagency collaboration, mutual aid, and financial agreements; formats and systems for communication, evaluation and reporting; and other resources will be available to participants for review and critique.
This non-credit course meets with the academic course PubH 7222-101 as part of the 2025 Public Health Institute.
Enrollment for this course will open on February 27, 2025.
Additional information can be found on the Public Health Institute website.
Objectives
At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Describe the application of planning and the incident command system to public health aspects of disaster situations.
- Identify partners for effective emergency response actions and describe differences in their perspectives, priorities, and approaches.
- Identify lessons learned by professional colleagues managing preparedness planning, response and recovery efforts.
- Build a network of colleagues with expertise in a wide variety of emergency situations.
- Describe ways that your practice in preparedness planning, response and recovery will change as a result of attending this course.
Competencies
The core competencies in Public Health Preparedness and Response identified in the CDC planning model that apply to this course include:
Domain 1: Model Leadership
1.3 Facilitate collaboration with internal and external partners
1.4 Maintain situational awareness
Domain 2: Communicate and Manage Information
2.3 Report information through chain of command
2.1 Manage information related to an emergency
Domain 3: Plan for and Improve Practice
3.2 Contribute expertise to emergency plans
3.3 Participate in improving the organization’s capacities
Domain 4: Protect Worker Health & Safety
4.2 Employ protective behaviors according to changing conditions, personal limitations and threats
Registration & Cancellation
The registration fee for this course is $595. You will receive an email letter outlining program logistics two weeks prior to the start of the course.
Requests for refunds will be honored in full if a written cancellation request is received prior to the course start date. An administration fee of $50 will be charged to all refund requests received after the first day of class. The University of Minnesota School of Public Health (SPH) reserves the right to cancel any course. In the event of a course cancellation, registrants will receive a full refund of the program registration fee. SPH is not responsible for refund of travel or other costs incurred by registrants.
SPH will provide a certificate of attendance verifying 1.5 CEUs (15 contact hours) offered for this program. This course is eligible for 15 CPH recertification credits.
All courses are approved for CPH Recertification Credits by the National Board of Public Health Examiners.