Public Health Planning for Radiological and Nuclear Terrorism
This activity offers proactive education on the most up-to-date information on state and local public health emergency response planning for radiological and nuclear terrorism incidents. Public health officials at the state and local levels requested additional guidance on adapting all-hazards state and local emergency preparedness plans for radiological and nuclear incidents involving mass casualties. In response to these requests, this course will provide public health officials with the most current information regarding public health planning for response to radiation emergencies, including information on local government roles and responsibilities, radiologic monitoring of people (population monitoring), pharmaceutical countermeasures deployed by the strategic national stockpile, and the role of communications in a radiation emergency.
Continuing Education Credits Available
CE Expiration Date: 10/1/2010
- View Web-based Training
- Register for Web-based Training
- Register and Order the course on DVD. Includes CD-Rom of supplementary resources.
TARGET AUDIENCE: Public health officials involved in developing an emergency response plan for a radiological or nuclear terrorism incident involving mass casualties. This may include state, local, tribal, and territorial health agency senior officials, emergency planners, epidemiologists, environmental health specialists, public health physicians and nurses, public health students, sanitarians, hazardous materials team members, and first responders.
MATERIALS: The participant will read materials (slides, graphics) while listening to videotaped expert lecture segments on the Web. The lecture segments are supplemented with video vignettes and animations illustrating the lecture material. For higher quality viewing, the program is also available as a DVD. A CD-ROM of Supplementary Resources that may be used as a ready reference in a field setting is included with the DVD. To order the DVD, send an email message with mailing address to cdcinfo@cdc.gov.
PREREQUISITES: Participants should have basic knowledge of public health emergency response planning. Some introductory knowledge of response to radiological and nuclear terrorism incidents such as that provided in earlier CE-approved CDC programs produced by the Radiation Studies Branch is highly recommended. Those programs include a video webcast on The Role of Public Health in a Nuclear or Radiological Terrorist Incident and Preparing for Population Monitoring and Decontamination.
- Page last updated August 26, 2008
- Content source: Radiation Studies Branch (RSB), Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects (EHHE), National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH), Coordinating Center for Environmental Health and Injury Prevention (CCEHIP)
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