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Working Together for All Hazards Readiness Course Overview

Working Together for All Hazards Readiness Course Overview. California Department of Health Services National Laboratory Training Network Alameda, Sonoma, Shasta, Sacramento, San Bernardino and San Diego CO PH Laboratories. Vision:. All Hazards Readiness. Today’s Situation.

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Working Together for All Hazards Readiness Course Overview

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  1. Working Together for All Hazards ReadinessCourse Overview California Department of Health Services National Laboratory Training Network Alameda, Sonoma, Shasta, Sacramento, San Bernardino and San Diego CO PH Laboratories

  2. Vision: • All Hazards Readiness

  3. Today’s Situation • Trust for America’s Health • US not prepared

  4. How Did We Get Here? • Events of 9/11 • Categorical grants and funding • Varied interpretation • Varied implementation

  5. Opportunity for Improvement • Bring groups together • Encourage dialog and interaction • Learn others roles • Break down barriers • Identify resources

  6. Groups involved in Readiness and Response • Law enforcement – local, state, federal • First responders – Fire, HAZMAT • Medical – EMS, ED, Laboratory • Public Health – epidemiology, laboratory • Environmental Health

  7. Today’s Participants • Varied audience • Varied expertise • Varied experience

  8. Goals and Objectives • Recognize circumstances that indicate a potential chemical, biological, radiological/nuclear, or explosive terrorist threat, incident or attack • Recognize symptoms associated with chemical, biological, radiological/nuclear, or explosive terrorism agents • Describe the Public Health Response to a terrorism event

  9. Goals and Objectives • Describe the value of the • Laboratory Response Network for Bioterrorism (LRN), • The Laboratory Response Network for Chemical Terrorism (LRN-C) and the • Food Emergency Response Network (FERN) in recognizing and responding to terrorism events

  10. Goals and Objectives • Describe how to collect, package, and ship clinical specimens from a chemical terrorism event • Describe environmental sampling and analysis procedures for terrorism events including preservation of evidence and chain of custody • List types of federal assistance available after a terrorism event

  11. Recommendation • Meet someone new • Take information back • Continue to improve

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