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Environmental Public Health Disaster Readiness & Resilience Training
This comprehensive program equips environmental public health professionals with the critical skills needed to protect and promote health before, during, and following a disaster. ModulesThe training workshops include three comprehensive modules...
ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Assessment Guide and Form for Disaster Shelters During COVID-19
This CDC guidance and set of checklists is designed for emergency management planning and includes:Identifying the assessing agencyFacility detailsOccupant processingServices the facility providesArea to note immediate needsRecommended for emerg...
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Wildfire Smoke
This article identifies the potential for dangerous interactions between COVID-19 and smoke pollution This resource includes: Strategies to manage the combination of public health threats Recommended for environmental and public health officia...
Responding to Simultaneous Crises: Communications and Social Norms of Mask Behavior During Wildfires and COVID-19
This article looks into the COVID-19 pandemic and the potential for co-occurring wildfires and the health risks that they pose. While there are behaviors that can be implemented to reduce the negative impacts, government agencies and public heal...
Navigating the Wildfire-Pandemic Interface
This article provides preliminary data that suggests the current challenges around collective action to address wildfire risk may be further exacerbated due to COVID-19, and that the pandemic has potentially widened existing disparities in house...
ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Assessment Guide and Form for Disaster Shelters
Environmental public health (EPH) professionals play a key role in protecting the health and living environment of occupants of disaster shelters by conducting pre-occupancy and post-event assessments of these facilities. This health assessment ...
Wildfire Resources
Use the following resources to assist with emergency preparedness after a wildfire or mass fire. These resources were developed in-part by CDC, EPA, California Air Resources Board, and California Department of Public Health. Wildfire Response Gu...