Emergency Preparedness and Response: A Public Health Perspective

Catalog description

Emergency preparedness and response integrates core professional competencies including communication, collaboration, management, lifelong learning, scholarship, promoting the value of research, leadership, diversity and multicultural awareness, and adapting to changing environments. The organization of this course emphasizes the clinically relevant aspects of public health in the context of emergency preparedness. The importance of emergency preparedness/response and public health is especially evident in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic, and this course should help emphasize the importance of understanding these concepts. This is relevant to all veterinary practitioners, as emergency preparedness and response is currently an asset in private practice as well as sheltering or public health settings. This course is also designed to be mutli-disciplinary, for students from VMD, AWB, and MPH degree programs. Lectures/discussions are via zoom. Students may complete this course remotely as long as they have internet access and they can participate in discussions via camera and audio. Information for veterinary students: This course will also be offered during the same rotation block/summer period as the Student Shelter Opportunities summer elective course and Shelter Animal Medicine elective course and can be taken by itself or with those other courses.