Emergency Preparedness and
Incident Command System

Trainings, Exercises, and Competencies

Upcoming Trainings

• Oregon DHS Learning Center (links to the Oregon State Department of Human Services Learning Center’s login page)

Web-based Trainings

• ICS Courses: FEMA Emergency Management Institute: Independent Study:
  http://training.fema.gov/emiweb/IS/crslist.asp
  


• Epi for Non-Epidemiologists, PowerPoint presentation by Amy Sullivan, MCHD Epidemiologist
  


• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Public Health Training Network Satellite Broadcast & Webcast:
  Preparing for Radiological Population Monitoring
  and Decontamination
  


• Center for Biosecurity, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center:
  http://www.upmc-biosecurity.org/website/focus/
  public_health_prep/index.html
  


• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services/Agency for Healthcare Research Quality/Bioterrorism and Health System Preparedness:
  http://www.hsrnet.net/ahrq-ulp/Bioterrorism/

http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/EMICourses/index.asp



• FEMA Training Resources Portal Page:
  http://training.fema.gov/


• King County, Northwest Center for Public Health Practice and Public Health (covers the history of biological terrorism, the role of the clinician and health care provider in response to biological terrorism, modules on individual Class A agents including smallpox, anthrax, plague, tularemia, botulism, and viral hemorrhagic fevers):
  http://www.metrokc.gov/health/Bioterrorism/education/
  


• Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health Preparedness Online Training Modules: Follow the link below to access training modules on the following emergency preparedness and response topics: Agriculture, Food and Water; Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear Terror; Infectious Disease and Vaccines; Legal Issues; Mental Health Preparedness; and General Public Health Preparedness. 
  http://www.jhsph.edu/preparedness/training/online/index.html
  


• University of Washington: Bioterrorism Education and Training (course schedule):
  http://www.nwcphp.org/btcurriculum
  


• The ASPH Public Health Preparedness Resource Center is a free online catalog of courses and training activities, tools, education programs (e.g., degree and certificate programs), and other materials (e.g., brochures, pamphlets, etc.) developed by ASPH member schools of public health. This information is intended for both course developers to ensure that best practices are shared, thereby minimizing duplication of efforts and for public health professionals to assure information on trainings developed by schools of public health are accessible to the public health workforce. Areas of focus include bioterrorism, emergency preparedness, and other public health threats and emergencies:
  http://www.asph.org/phprc/index.cfm#
  


• Terrorism, Preparedness and Public Health: An Introduction
  Center for Public Health Preparedness, University at Albany School of Public Health
  http://www.ualbanycphp.org/learning/registration/
  detail_Terrorism.cfm

Local Classroom Opportunities:

• Oregon Emergency Management (training course schedule): http://www.oregon.gov/OOHS/OEM/
  plans_train/train_exercise.shtml

Incident Command System Materials and Forms:

• National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG)
• Publications Management System: http://www.nwcg.gov/teams/pmswt/pms.htm
• Forms: http://www.nwcg.gov/pms/forms/icsforms.htm
• Taskbooks: http://www.nwcg.gov/pms/taskbook/taskbook.htm
  


• National Incident Management System (NIMS) and the National Response Plan.
  http://www.dhs.gov/xprepresp/publications/
  


• NIMS Online.com One-stop shopping for National Incident Management System (NIMS) information. This website offers links to NIMS publications, ICS forms, Presidential Directives, Training, and News.
  http://www.nimsonline.com/

Preparedness Competencies

• Columbia University School of Nursing, Center for Health Policy:
  http://www.nursing.hs.columbia.edu/chphsr/index.html

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