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Annotation:This Law and Epidemic Emergency Preparedness (LEEP) training covers provisions and concepts applicable to epidemic response, including various challenges faced during the 2014 Ebola response, and applies them to future infectious disease emergency response planning. LEEP examines legal underpinnings of emergency preparedness and response systems, what actions are authorized, and how to minimize legal barriers to an effective large-scale communicable disease response....[See more] [See less]
Annotation:This one-hour, 29-minute lecture, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Office of Science “We Were There” series, details how disease detectives discovered the Ebola virus in 1976 in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), and how the understanding of it has grown with subsequent outbreaks over the past 40 years. Samples of the unidentified disease in that outbreak yielded alarming images of a filovirus resembling Marburg, but serology testing at the CDC showed a new virus, later named Ebola....[See more] [See less]
Annotation:This one-hour webinar from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Emergency Partners Information Connection (EPIC) and CDC’s National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases discusses the current Ebola situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and how organizations sending U.S.-based workers to areas with Ebola can ensure the health and safety of their workers before, during, and after deployment. Speakers also address response efforts and challenges, and the travel health notice for the areas....[See more] [See less]
Annotation:This 57-minute webinar, part of the Emergency Partners Information Connection (EPIC) series, discusses how to prepare for the summer travel season, including diseases to look out for in different parts of the world, suggested vaccinations, what’s new in travel medicine, and other health considerations. Current diseases of concern includes measles, Dengue, Ebola, and drug-resistant infections. The speaker also describes resources the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers to help travelers and their clinicians....[See more] [See less]
Annotation:This Web page provides 15 audiocasts with presentation slides from live trainings in September and October 2017, sponsored by the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Outbreak Response Training Program. Topics are A Survivor's Story: Dual Citizenship at the Ebola Bedside; A Hospital Epidemiologist's Guide to the Galaxy; Newbie's Guide to Policy Development; Case Study 1: MERS-CoV; Hope Is Not a Plan; HICS and Hiccups; Location, Location, Location; Case Study 2: Cherchez Le LTAC; Case Study 3: Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers; PCR Is Not Always the Answer; Preparing for the Zombie Apocalypse; #LightsCameraAction; Who's the Boss?; Get Your Sim On!; and Keeping Up With the Krisis....[See more] [See less]
Annotation:This 17-minute podcast discusses the state of global health security, the ever-increasing risk from infectious disease threats, and the public health implications of global outbreaks, endemics, pandemics, and epidemics. Topics include the Zika virus,Ebola outbreak, Global Health Security Agenda, and International Health Regulations....[See more] [See less]
Annotation:This one-hour, six-minute CDC Public Health Grand Rounds presentation discusses how the CDC, other U.S. government agencies, and global partners are working to promote global health security as an international priority, and accelerate progress toward a world safe and secure from epidemics of infectious disease. Speakers discuss lessons learned from the Ebola outbreak, which highlighted the importance of ensuring that every country is prepared to prevent, detect, and respond to outbreaks and emerging health threats....[See more] [See less]
Annotation:This resource is a recording of a 50-minute conference call on March 10, 2015, to discuss the Ebola outbreak in West Africa with members of the West African community. This call focuses on information and background about safe school operations in West Africa at the end of 2014, when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was contacted for technical assistance on how to safely reopen schools....[See more] [See less]
Annotation:This resource is a recording of a 37-minute conference call on February 10, 2015, to discuss the Ebola outbreak in West Africa with members of the West African community. It provides an overview of the domestic and international responses to theEbola outbreak, and discusses what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is doing in the countries affected by the outbreak....[See more] [See less]
Annotation:This 17-minute video demonstrates the procedure described in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance for doffing (i.e., removing) personal protective equipment (PPE) for all healthcare providers entering the room of a patient hospitalized with known or suspected Ebola virus disease. It assumes the healthcare provider is using an N95 facepiece respirator and gown....[See more] [See less]