Disaster Response Planning and Crisis Management II

Catalog description

Designed to expand beyond the basic science of public health to include models, approaches, resources, tools, programs and stakeholders that support the preparing, assessing, responding, managing disaster and other crisis-based situations. This applied course is a compliment to PUBH 420 that provides opportunities to review and analyze various scenarios of disaster response planning, crisis management and outcomes. Students will review various disaster planning and response scenarios and crisis management outcomes and then will analyze the case scenario. Cases will span various disaster types, geographies, response and management roles especially those roles directly related to first-responders, military and veterans. Prerequisites: HHPR 256, PUBH 310 and PUBH 311. Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.