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Working Together for All Hazards Readiness Course Overview. California Department of Health Services National Laboratory Training Network Alameda, Sonoma, Shasta, Sacramento, San Bernardino and San Diego CO PH Laboratories. Vision:. All Hazards Readiness. Today’s Situation.
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Working Together for All Hazards ReadinessCourse Overview California Department of Health Services National Laboratory Training Network Alameda, Sonoma, Shasta, Sacramento, San Bernardino and San Diego CO PH Laboratories
Vision: • All Hazards Readiness
Today’s Situation • Trust for America’s Health • US not prepared
How Did We Get Here? • Events of 9/11 • Categorical grants and funding • Varied interpretation • Varied implementation
Opportunity for Improvement • Bring groups together • Encourage dialog and interaction • Learn others roles • Break down barriers • Identify resources
Groups involved in Readiness and Response • Law enforcement – local, state, federal • First responders – Fire, HAZMAT • Medical – EMS, ED, Laboratory • Public Health – epidemiology, laboratory • Environmental Health
Today’s Participants • Varied audience • Varied expertise • Varied experience
Goals and Objectives • Recognize circumstances that indicate a potential chemical, biological, radiological/nuclear, or explosive terrorist threat, incident or attack • Recognize symptoms associated with chemical, biological, radiological/nuclear, or explosive terrorism agents • Describe the Public Health Response to a terrorism event
Goals and Objectives • Describe the value of the • Laboratory Response Network for Bioterrorism (LRN), • The Laboratory Response Network for Chemical Terrorism (LRN-C) and the • Food Emergency Response Network (FERN) in recognizing and responding to terrorism events
Goals and Objectives • Describe how to collect, package, and ship clinical specimens from a chemical terrorism event • Describe environmental sampling and analysis procedures for terrorism events including preservation of evidence and chain of custody • List types of federal assistance available after a terrorism event
Recommendation • Meet someone new • Take information back • Continue to improve