FEBRUARY 20, 1:00 - 3:00 PM POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS The Conundrum of Ethics and Preparedness
Friday February 20th, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Harbor Island 2
Workshop
Session Number: 30
The ethical issues involved in preparing for and responding to emergencies are complicated and complex, and can be classifies into three categories: fully addressed, partially addressed, and unaddressed. The extent to which an ethical issue has been addressed is determined by the extent to which it has been vetted in the literature and public policy. Among the issues to be explored during this workshop are rapidity and equity, rights protection, access to medical preventive and treatment resources, seizure of private property, mandatory and compulsory compliance with proclamations, and special interests.
Talk to Me, Please! Communicating with Community Partners during a Public Health Emergency Event*
Friday February 20th, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Point Loma B
Workshop
Session Number: 145
inThe Santa Clara County Public Health Department Advanced Practice Center has begun local community partner trainings to increase understanding of how emergency risk communication works and fits into overall emergency response efforts. This workshop will highlight strategies and lessons learned from community trainings, ideas for reaching out to community partners, the training curriculum, and materials. Presenters will cover key components of the community partner trainings: how communication differs during an emergency event; how communication fits into overall emergency response efforts; the role of public health in communication; and what may be asked of community organizations, particularly those that serve vulnerable populations, during a medical emergency event.
*This Workshop is an Advanced Practice Center Training
Advanced Practice Center Tools and Guidance for Emergency Preparedness in Rural America*
Friday February 20th, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Harbor Island 3
Workshop
Session Number: 211
This workshop will review and demonstrate the tool developed by the Western New York Public Health Alliance Advanced Practice Center to model the evacuation of urban citizens into rural and suburban areas to provide population surge estimates. The demonstration will utilize jurisdictions of participants. Presenters will highlight the Rural Preparedness Planning Guide as a resource available to communities to facilitate collaborative planning. The guide is formatted by event phase: pre-event (preparedness and planning), event (response), and postevent (recovery). Participants will be divided into three groups and will utilize the guide to interactively discuss planning considerations outlined in each event phase.
*This Workshop is an Advanced Practice Center Training
Emergency Preparedness: Targeting the Latino Community*
Friday February 20th, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Catalina
Workshop
Session Number: 212
Studies have found that low-income Latino and other minority communities are less likely to have an emergency plan and to feel prepared for an emergency than the general public. This workshop will demonstrate the collaboration between public health personnel and Latino health promoters in utilizing a culturally and linguistically appropriate curriculum, based upon previous research and community focus groups within the Latino community, for increasing knowledge, awareness, and practice in a low-income Latino community. The presentation will showcase sections of the curriculum and provide participants with a hands-on experience. Participants will also discuss how the curriculum can be utilized with other community groups.
*This Workshop is an Advanced Practice Center Training
Preparing for Antiviral Use & Distribution: Local Demonstration Project Findings and Tools
Friday February 20th, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Point Loma A
Workshop
Session Number: 325
Public health departments will play a central role in coordinating the response to pandemic influenza. Uncertainty about the most effective means of procurement, use, and distribution of antivirals during an influenza pandemic is a critical preparedness challenge for local health departments. This uncertainty requires a more coordinated dialogue amongst governmental public health, health care, industry, and other community stakeholders. Demonstration projects in western North Carolina and in Milwaukee, WI, conducted table top exercises, real-time antiviral distribution exercises to test and evaluate their plans. They also conducted knowledge, attitude, and practices (KAP) surveys of local providers to assess gaps in antiviral use practices during seasonal influenza to help inform their pandemic preparedness plans. This workshop will highlight the findings of the exercises, the surveys, and the tools developed by the demonstration projects.
