Programs
Our preparedness trainings, courses, and technical assistance are designed to meet the diverse needs of public health practitioners and organizations. We provide academic courses (full and half semester), a summer program consisting of numerous courses four hours to two weeks in length, regional conferences (one to three days), special events, and seminars. Our academic courses are free and scheduled on Tuesdays to facilitate long-distance commuters. Students desiring academic credit can enroll through UC Extension for a fee. Registered UC Berkeley students can also enroll in our courses for academic credit. Our classes are attended by a mixture of public health practitioners and registered students. In addition to offering interactive training courses, we use a state-of-the-art webcasting system to deliver trainings on-demand.
Core Infectious Disease Emergency Readiness (CIDER) Program
The CIDER program is the foundation of our comprehensive training programs. CIDER encompasses the infectious disease emergency readiness areas where public health plays a primary and significant role: surveillance and detection, epidemiologic investigations (including outbreak investigations and rapid health assessments), contact tracing, transmission containment, community infection control (including isolation and quarantine), mass prophylaxis, mass vaccination, application of legal authority, exercise design and evaluation, incident command system management, risk communication, preparing and responding to vulnerable/special needs populations, and essential public health law. The CIDER Program is directed by Tomás Aragón, MD, DrPH, Principal Investigator and Executive Director.
Readiness Operations Planning and Exercises (ROPE) Program
Health departments across California and the country are tasked with demonstrating preparedness and building capacity to respond to disasters. Opportunities to demonstrate preparedness and capacity building can be accomplished through simulated events in the forms of emergency preparedness exercising. CIDER utilizes the Homeland Security Exericise Evaluation Program (HSEEP) to bring continuity of methodology to Public Health and enhance the collaboration and coordination with local, county, State, and Federal partners. In compliance with HSEEP methodology, CIDER provides design, development, execution and evaluation of both discussion-based and operations-based exercise activities. Discussion- based exercises include: seminars, workshops and tabletop activities. Operations based exercises include: drills, functional and full-scale exercises. CIDER's ROPE Program staff will 1) assist health departments in developing emergency operations plans for microbial threats (Category A bioterrorism agents, SARS, pandemic influenza); 2) assist health departments in designing, conducting and evaluating exercises to test their plans; and 3) teach courses in emergency operations planning and in exercise design, conduct and evaluation. The longer-term goals are to promote and support continuous quality improvement and capacity building measurement through integration of the Target Capabilities List and the Universal Task List with respect to Public Health preparedness. The ROPE Program is directed by Cindy Lambdin, RN, MS, Emergency Operations Specialist.
For informative PDF brochure click here.
Epidemiology Preparedness and Informatics (EPI) Program
While disease control and prevention interventions are covered in
the CIDER program, the Epidemiology Preparedness and Informatics
(EPI) program will provide opportunities to educate and train
public health staff at four levels: (1) basic understanding of
surveillance and detection, outbreak investigations, post-disaster
rapid health assessments, the epidemiologic basis of control and
prevention strategies; (2) in-depth understanding of basic
concepts by practicing epidemiologists so that they can train
others (train-the-trainer approach); (3) high proficiency in
analytic methods to design, conduct, analyze, and interpret
epidemiologic studies; (4) high proficiency in the design,
implementation, and maintenance of information management systems
for complex investigations; and (5) moderate proficiency in how
to mathematically model infectious disease transmission
dynamics. The EPI Program is directed by Wayne Enanoria, PhD, MPH,
Public Health Epidemiologist.
For informative PDF brochure click here.
For EPI Undergraduate Scholarship Program newsletter click here.
Link:
http://www.idready.org/epi/
Preparedness Research and Evaluation (PRE) Program
Now, more than ever, we must prioritize preparedness activities based on research evidence. To achieve this goal the Preparedness Research and Evaluation (PRE) Program consist of three major areas: (1) PREP-Training: academic courses that cover the epidemiologic competencies necessary to detect, investigate, and study public health emergencies, (2) PREP-EpiReady: real-world field investigation experiences that exercise and test competencies gained in PREP-Training, and (3) PREP-Technical Assistance: technical assistance projects that use research and evaluation methods to inform and guide public health preparedness actions. This unique Program provides a continuum of professional growth from training in the classroom, to field experiences with local partners, and finally to providing evidence-based technical assistance that improves public health preparedness and advances public health workforce readiness. The PRE Program is directed by Drs. Tomás Aragón and Wayne Enanoria.
Community Emergency Response Team Public Health Curriculum
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Pandemic Influenza Project:
Prioritizing Populations for Pandemic Influenza Vaccine
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› Prioritization Survey Webcast Presentations
The REDI-US (Reducing Influenza-like Illness among University Students) Study
› The REDI-US Study
Modified by JD: April 07, 2008; 4:00 pm