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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...
A Guide to Operating Public Shelters in a Radiation Emergency
This guide has been developed to assist with planning and response efforts related to shelter operations in a radiation emergency. The guide provides information and guidance about: Screening for radioactive contamination Decontamination Rad...
Disaster Impact Assessment Form
This form is used to report the impacts of the disaster on the local jurisdiction. General Information Assessment section for impacted areas Area to record impacted individuals Recommended for emergency environmental public health practit...
Dual Disaster Handbook – Flooding
This is a comprehensive handbook to help local officials and emergency managers address dual disaster scenarios during the COVID-19 pandemic. This handbook contains: Recommendations for Local Leaders Flood Response During COVID-19 Checklis...
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 ...
Guidance for General Population Disaster Shelters COVID-19
This resource assesses best practices for the general population to use during emergency shelters during COVID-19 pandemic and contains:Opening disaster sheltersShelter prioritizationShelter health staffRecommended for local officials to underst...
Safety in Emergency Shelters in Low Resource, Non-U.S. Settings
This document offers resources on emergency sheltering during the COVID-19 pandemic in non-U.S. settings and contains:Recommendations to prevent the spread of COVID-19 during evacuation shelteringEmergency Shelter Information ResponseRecommended...
Changing Vulnerability for Hurricane Evacuation During a Pandemic
This article examines data from workshops involving emergency management and public health experts to support planning for hurricane evacuation and sheltering. This resource includes: Policy integration findings Expanded protections for popula...
Compound Risks of Hurricane Evacuation Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States
This article models how a hurricane evacuation from four different counties in a state would impact COVID-19 case levels. The number of COVID-19 cases produced by the evacuation is influenced by the ability of destination counties meeting the ne...
Individual Hurricane Evacuation Intentions During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This article discusses how individual hurricane preparedness is often influenced by the additional risk stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. A major finding was that the perceptions of flood and pandemic risks have opposite effects on preparedne...
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 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...