FEMA Releases COVID-19 Operational Guidance for Hurricane Season FEMA released "COVID-19 Pandemic Operational Guidance for the 2020 Hurricane Season" to help emergency managers and public health officials best prepare for disasters, while continuing to respond to and recover from COVID-19. The guide provides actions emergency managers and public officials can take to prepare for […]
FEMA’s National Integration Center and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association’s (NOAA) National Weather Service (NWS) will host a 60-minute training webinar to demonstrate how the Resilience Analysis and Planning Tool (RAPT) can be used to plan for severe weather events. RAPT now includes several real-time weather-forecast layers, including five-day Tropical Cyclone/Hurricane Outlook, eight-day Severe […]
FEMA Releases COVID-19 Operational Guidance for Hurricane Season FEMA released "COVID-19 Pandemic Operational Guidance for the 2020 Hurricane Season" to help emergency managers and public health officials best prepare for disasters, while continuing to respond to and recover from COVID-19. The guide provides actions emergency managers and public officials can take to prepare for […]
In this National Emerging Special Pathogen Training and Education Center webinar they will discuss strategies around reassigning and optimizing the workforce due to operational changes related to COVID-19. Strategies used during the initial outbreak and returning to normal business operations will be discussed. Register Here
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity (COCA) During this COCA call, presenters will use case-based scenarios to discuss how to apply infection prevention and control guidance for nursing homes and other long-term care facilities that are preparing for and responding to COVID-19. Presenters LCDR Kara M. Jacobs Slifka, MD, […]
The National Emerging Special Pathogen Training and Education Center is offering a webinar to review strategies used to transport COVID-19 patients and person under investigation to healthcare facilities, efforts to address challenges, describe a methodology to increase the likelihood of identifying infectious disease risks in the workplace (Identity, Isolate and Inform), and describe strategies to […]
FEMA Releases COVID-19 Operational Guidance for Hurricane Season FEMA released "COVID-19 Pandemic Operational Guidance for the 2020 Hurricane Season" to help emergency managers and public health officials best prepare for disasters, while continuing to respond to and recover from COVID-19. The guide provides actions emergency managers and public officials can take to prepare for […]
The impacts of COVID-19 will persist for the foreseeable future, and recovery will likely last for years. As a result, countless aspects of emergency management will be challenged: community preparedness, mass sheltering, relief services and care, and much more. In this virtual Distinguished Speaker Series program, Craig Fugate, former Administrator of FEMA, and Greg Brunelle, […]
The National Emerging Special Pathogen Training and Education Center is offering a webinar to learn how to assess and foster post-traumatic growth, understand the importance of bi-directional (systems/individual) approaches to resilience, and learn how to practice a few short-term/simple resilience practices. Register Here
FEMA Releases COVID-19 Operational Guidance for Hurricane Season FEMA released "COVID-19 Pandemic Operational Guidance for the 2020 Hurricane Season" to help emergency managers and public health officials best prepare for disasters, while continuing to respond to and recover from COVID-19. The guide provides actions emergency managers and public officials can take to prepare for […]