Online Training for Pandemics, Agroterrorism, and Other Emergencies
The following courses are available online free of charge. For some of these, certificates are available after a brief online test, providing continuing education credits, including medical, EMT, and nursing. I am only listing courses available through institutions I have some experience with. I would be glad to hear of any others.
www.prepareiowa.com This site, sponsored by the Upper Midwest Center for Public Health Preparedness, provides the technological facility for courses from several institutions, including U. Albany programs listed further down this posting. I have only taken their webcast courses on my home computer. Other methods are available for individuals and groups. Some courses: Genesis of an Influenza Pandemic: Preparedness vs. Poultry, Poverty, and Practices; Ethical Hazards in Pandemic Planning and Response; Epidemiology and Surveillance of Emerging Infections; Risky Business: Communication during a Crisis
http://www.ualbanycphp.org/ Home base for the excellent Grand Rounds program at the University of Albany School of Public Health Center for Public Health Preparedness. Some of their upcoming courses: Agroterrorism: Managing Foreign and Emerging Animal Diseases; Mass Evacuation for Rural Communities; Managing Contemporary Mass Fatalities Note that some of their past courses are still available at the Iowa site listed above. If you catch the courses the first time they are run, you can submit questions via phone or fax.
www.kiprc.uky.edu/trap/ The Kentucky Terrorism Response and Preparedness (TRAP) program provides several courses, including two on Agroterrorism (one at the introductory level, one at extension level), bioterrorism, chemical terrorism, and pediatric terrorism (recognition and treatment of problems particularly affecting children).
www.training.fema.gov FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute (EMI) National Emergency Training Institute (NETC) electronic campus offers a wide variety of courses, including those on the incident command system which is required for local governments which hope to receive financial assistance for preparedness (e.g., equipment). See the list at: http://www.training.fema.gov/emiweb/IS/crslist.asp
We’ve been required to take several of the FEMA courses and I have to say, they internet presentations are excellent. They’ve got the format down, that’s for sure.
stillwaggon – at 18:28 - Thank you! I have been looking for this link for a while.
TRay - this is awesome! Thanks for pulling all that info together. I will for sure pass it along.
I have been using your excel sheet to adapt numbers when I hear new info. Is it ready for distribution (I have been away for a week so may have missed the posting if it was released for use).
Went to an all-day pan flu seminar for business - learned some interesting things. Asked the local DOH if they would adjust their projections from 5% CFR once they could measure an average CFR after efficient H2H was underway. She said yes. So if you plug in say, 27%, holy moly! Let me know if I can forward that spreadsheet along to others!
Do you think the goverment will “draft” us into service during the pandemic if we take these goverment funded courses?
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Thanks for the bump BB. I added the online courses to the multimedia page.
Ranchgirl, I am interested in yoru excel spread sheet - can you email it to me at pelhamresilience@yahoo.com
Thanks
Kate
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