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Course Overview |
Mass Antibiotic Dispensing:
Taking Care of Business
A Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) and
Public Health Training Network Satellite Broadcast and Webcast
Continuing Education Start Date: March 4, 2009
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Public health officials and members of the business community are discovering the mutual benefits of partnering to get Pills into People. Bound together by a common goal—protecting the health and safety of the citizens of the community—public health and business are finding new strategies to solve some of the problems inherent in a mass antibiotic dispensing campaign. Both sides of this multidisciplinary partnership have something unique to offer and also to gain in this relationship. For example, when local businesses are willing to dispense antibiotics to employees and their families, the number of people who will report to community Points of Dispensing (PODs) can be significantly reduced. This relieves some of the burden on the PODs and offers businesses the opportunity to protect their employees and maintain continuity of operations. This broadcast will focus on the development of these public-private partnerships. Panelists will discuss methods for locating and reaching-out to businesses and identify significant challenges, possible solutions, and opportunities involved in this type of community outreach. In addition, business leaders and public health professionals will share their experiences in forming these partnerships.
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Goal
To facilitate the formation of partnerships between public health and businesses for a mass antibiotic dispensing campaign
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Objectives
Upon successful completion of the program, participants will be able to:
- List two ways that business can contribute to a mass antibiotic dispensing campaign
- List two benefits for businesses that partner with public health
- Define BENS
- Discuss some of the liability concerns for business regarding mass antibiotic dispensing
- Identify two resources to assist public health in creating business partnerships
- Promote health improvement, wellness, and disease prevention in cooperation with patients, communities, at-risk populations, and other members of an inter-professional team of health care providers by assuring the availability of effective, quality health and disease prevention services.
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Intended Audiences
State and local public health officials, state and local SNS and CRI planners, emergency managers, designated POD managers, and volunteer coordinators
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Presenters
Ruth Thornburg, MA, MS, Public Information and Communication Specialist, EDS, Division of Strategic National Stockpile, Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Stasha Wyskiel, Manager, Business Continuity Planning, Gap Inc.
Gene W. Matthews, JD, Senior Fellow, The North Carolina Institute for Public Health
John H.H. Turner III, Director and Program Manager, Georgia Business Force, Business Executives for National Security (BENS)
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Disclosures
- CDC, our planners, and our content experts wish to disclose that they have no financial interests or other relationships with the manufacturers of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services, or commercial supporters.
- The use of trade names or commercial sources is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an endorsement by the United States Department of Health and Human Services or the Public Health Service.
- This activity did not receive commercial support of any kind.
- Presentations will not include any discussion of the unlabeled use of a product or the product under investigational use.
- Views expressed by guest participants are not necessarily the views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
- Legal views offered in this program are the opinions of the speakers and do not constitute legal advice from the CDC or HHS.
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Continuing Education
To register for continuing education, visit CDC/ATSDR Training and Continuing Education Online at http://www2a.cdc.gov/TCEOnline/ and select Course Number: WD1485. CE Expiration Date: 3/4/2012.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is accredited as a provider of Continuing Nursing Education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
This activity provides 1.5 contact hours.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is a designated event for the CHES to receive 1.5 Category I contact hours in health education, CDC provider number GA0082.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.
This program is a designated event for pharmacists to receive 0.15 CEUs (1.5 Contact Hours) in pharmacy education. The Universal Activity Number is 387-000-09-012-H04-P.
The CDC has been approved as an Authorized Provider by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET), 1760 Old Meadow Road, Suite 500, McLean, VA 22102. The CDC is authorized by IACET to offer 0.2 CEUs for this program. |
Webcast Information
You can view the archived webcast at
http://www2a.cdc.gov/phtn/webcast/business/index.asp
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Additional Materials
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This page last reviewed: March 9, 2009
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- Fact sheet to assist public health professionals in reaching out to business
