PER-211 - Medical Management of Chemical Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosive (CBRNE) Events This course provides a strong emphasis in developing a multi-discipline, whole-community team approach to planning, preparing, responding, managing and recovering from an event involving Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear or Explosive (CBRNE) agents, a coordinated complex terrorist attack (CCTA), or an active shooter/hostile event (...

MGT-439 – Pediatric Disaster Response and Emergency Preparedness A 2010 report by the National Commission on Children and Disasters identified a training gap for emergency responders, first receivers, and emergency management personnel that reduced their effectiveness in responding to pediatric patients and their unique needs/considerations. This course addresses pediatric emergency planning and medical response considerations through a...

MGT-439 – Pediatric Disaster Response and Emergency Preparedness A 2010 report by the National Commission on Children and Disasters identified a training gap for emergency responders, first receivers, and emergency management personnel that reduced their effectiveness in responding to pediatric patients and their unique needs/considerations. This course addresses pediatric emergency planning and medical response considerations through a...

MGT-348/PER-233 – Medical Preparedness and Response for Bombing Incidents This course is intended for members of emergency response as well as other city and county services that become a part of a community response to an bombing incident. This interactive, Instructor facilitated program employs case studies, lessons learned, validated medical data, and potential threats to the communities we serve. Sessions will address planning consid...

Join AchieveIt for a live webinar as we discuss some of the challenges the state and local health departments have faced throughout the last year. AchieveIt will be joined by Melissa Tung, Director of Quality & Strategic Management, from Williamson County and Cities Health District. Over the past year, all health departments’ focus shifted towards fighting the COVID-19 pandemic and helping their communities recover. During this perio...

Fortunately, COVID vaccines have been developed at a record pace. How has that been done, were any testing corners cut, safety standards violated and vaccines rushed into the public domain? In the second Public Health webinar in the series with the American Public Health Association, the Milken Institute, MDB and SSF, will convene vaccine research, manufacturing, and regulatory experts to answer these questions and provide you with important i...

Public health agencies have many technologies at their disposal to help address society’s growing mental health crisis. However, many of these technologies are single point solutions that do not cover all the challenges facing patients and caregivers. Additionally, these technologies do not integrate easily into the whole care delivery lifecycle or existing Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems that are critical in delivering and coordi...

Cyber threats can occur at any time and to any organization or business, regardless of their size or scope. While our Nation is facing this ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we have seen an increased number of sophisticated cyber-attacks targeting the Healthcare and Public Health Sector. As the Nation’s Risk Advisor and the Federal Government’s leader in cybersecurity and infrastructure security, it is critical that we, the DHS Cybersecur...

The Public sector Coffee Hour series is a bi-weekly videocast featuring luminaries from technology, society and the world of STEM. Topics for discussion will include governmental and societal impacts of technology, open source in Sci/Tech/Med., as well as the role of technology and work/life balance. Superstar physician (and certified clown) Patch Adams has been prescribing smiles and laughter for over 50 years. Adam and Patch will talk about...

The AUSA Noon Report brings the popular Breakfast Series from our headquarters with the same quality content, essential topics and timely information you have come to expect from AUSA programs. Join key leaders from the defense industry, academia, military and government for this timely presentation with live Q&A on Wednesday, 29 July. There’s no cost to attend this event. Register today – space is limited!