Centers for Public Health Preparedness
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) initiated
a national system of Centers for Public Health Preparedness (CPHP)
to ensure frontline public health workers have the skills and
competencies required to effectively respond to current and emerging
health threats.
The Centers (CPHPs) are involved in four key areas: development
of competency-based public health practice curricula; technology-mediated
learning (e-learning); certification and credentialing; and,
applied research and evaluation. The nation system currently
includes academic, specialty and local exemplar centers.
Academic Centers
Specialty Centers
Local Exemplar Centers
National
Association of County and City Health Officials
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Academic
Centers
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| Academic Centers are cornerstones of
the system and link schools of public health, state and local health
agencies and other academic and community health partners to foster
individual preparedness at the front line. |
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| University
of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health - Illinois
Public Health Preparedness Center - will develop
an introductory Public Health 101 course, to be made available
statewide via distance learning; provide online instruction
for public health administrator certification and initiate
certificate programs for community health improvement specialists
and other areas of practice previously identified as priorities
in state needs assessment surveys. |
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| University
of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Public Health - North
Carolina Center for Public Health Preparedness - will
collaborate with the UNC Center for Infectious Diseases and
other partners to implement new training programs around
emerging infectious diseases and bioterrorism. Initially,
applied research and workforce-training programs will be
merged in four demonstration countries in North Carolina.
Ultimately the Center will serve five Southeastern states
including North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
and West Virginia. |
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| University
of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine - Northwest
Center for Public Health Preparedness - will serve
as a leader in providing ongoing training in public health
preparedness and injury prevention to state and local health
professionals in six-states (Alaska, Washington, Oregon,
Idaho, Montana, Wyoming) which represent 31% of U.S. land
mass and covers 3 time zones. |
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| Columbia
University Mailman School of Public Health - Center
for Public Health Preparedness - in partnership
with the New York City Department of Health, which employs
over 3000 full time workers, the Center will design a model
curriculum for public health practice, using "emergency
preparedness" as a framework with special focus on infectious
diseases (both newly emerging HIV/TB/STDs), bioterrorism,
and other emergency situations. The Center will also begin
developing interactive tools for training, communication,
and improvement of surveillance and threat assessments. |
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| University
of Iowa: Center for Public Health Practice - Iowa
Center for Public Health Preparedness |
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| University
of South Florida: College of Public Health - Florida
Center for Public Health Preparedness |
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| Tulane
University /University of Alabama at Birmingham - South
Central Center for Public Health Preparedness |
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| Saint
Louis University: School of Public Health - Heartland
Center for Public Health Preparedness |
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| Emory
University: Rollins School of Public Health - The
Center for Public Health and Preparedness Research |
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| Harvard
University School of Public Health - Harvard
Center for Public Health Preparedness |
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| John
Hopkins University: Bloomberg School of Public Health - Academic
Center for Public Health Preparedness |
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| State
University of New York at Albany: School of Public Health - Center
for Public Health Preparedness |
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| University
of California at Berkeley |
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| University
of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Center
for Public Health and Disasters |
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| University
of Michigan School of Public Health - Academic
Center for Public Health Preparedness |
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| University
of Minnesota School of Public Health |
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| University
of Oklahoma College of Public Health - Southwest
Center for Public Health Preparedness |
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| University
of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and Ohio State
University School of Public Health - Center
for Public Health Preparedness |
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| University
of South Carolina: The Norman J. Arnold School of Public
Health - USC Center for Public Health
Preparedness |
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Specialty
Centers
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| Specialty Centers focus on a topic, professional
discipline, core public health competency, practice setting or
application of learning technology. The three recently-funded centers
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| Dartmouth
College Dartmouth Medical School - Interactive
Media Laboratory - Collaboratory in Applied Communications
Technology |
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| Saint
Louis University School of Public Health - Center
for the Study of Bioterrorism and Emerging Infections |
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| Johns
Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health and Georgetown
University Law Center - Center for Law and the
Public's Health - Collaborating Center
in Public Health Law |
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| The
University of Findley, Ohio - Center
for Terrorism Preparedness |
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| The
University of Georgia - Center for Leadership
in Education and Applied Research in Mass Destruction Defense |
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| The
University of Louisville - Center for
Deterrence of Biowarfare and Bioterrorism |
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| Texas
A& M University - National Emergency
Response ans Rescue Training Center |
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Advanced
Practice Centers
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| Local Exemplar Centers were created to
develop advanced applications at the community level in three areas
of key importance to preparedness for bioterrorism and other urgent
health threats: integrated communications and information systems
across multiple sectors, advanced operational readiness assessment,
and comprehensive training and evaluations. These centers work
in collaboration with a variety of public and private partners
at the local, state, and national levels, as well as with the other
academic and specialty centers. The three local Exemplar sites
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| Denver
Health, Denver Public Health - Center
for Advanced Public Health Preparedness, Denver, CO |
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| DeKalb
County Board of Health - Center for
Public Health preparedness, Decatur, GA |
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| Monroe
County Health Department - Center
for Public Health Preparedness, Rochester, NY |
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| Westchester
County Health Department - New York |
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| Lawrence-Douglas
County - Kansas |
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| National
Association of County and City Health Officials |
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| Elements
of Effective Bioterrorism Preparedness - A
planning primer for local public health agencies |
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| Bioterrorism
and Emergency Response Program - As
part of a cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), NACCHO is actively engaged
in several programs in collaboration with local, state, and
federal partners to strengthen and improve local health agencies'
capacity to respond to bioterrorism and other communicable
disease and environmental health threats. |
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| Centers
for Public Health Preparedness Year One Report - The
Centers for Public Health Preparedness project was developed
to create models for implementing information technology
and training in support of bioterrorism preparedness and
emergency response. |
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