Management of Public Health Disasters

Catalog description

This course introduces basic principles and practices of public health disaster management. Students explore threat and hazard identification, mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery, and will apply their new skills and knowledge to address a wide range of natural and man- made disaster events of concern to public health. The course includes legal/ethical considerations, psychological impacts of disasters, community resiliency, planning for the needs of vulnerable populations, and other topics relevant to disaster management. For the culminating project for this course, students develop a disaster plan for their local department of health or for their workplace. Students also complete (no-cost) on-line FEMA ICS certification training as part of this course.