Emergency Response, Disasters, and Public Health

The purpose of this course is to provide cognitive and heuristic tools to public health practitioners to be well prepared to plan for, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the impact of health disasters precipitated by a variety of threats. The course will provide learners with an awareness of the wide-ranging collaborative processes necessary among public health and medical service providers, as well as cross sectoral dependencies on others such as energy, transportation, public safety, etc. Upon completion of this course, the learner will understand and be able to utilize tools and processes to save lives, reduce the burden of suffering, and speed communities to recovery in the face of disasters. This course is only open to MPH-GEN students.