News & Events
Introducing the Latest NDLS Courses in April 2013!
Pacific EMPRINTS is a designated National Disaster Life Support Regional Training Center-Pacific under the National Life Support Foundation (NDLSF) and is the only training program in Hawaii offering these courses. The National Disaster Life Support (NDLS) courses is a series of educational programs to better prepare health care professionals and emergency response personnel for mass casualty events. The NDLS courses are comprehensive, all-hazards, competency-based, standardized, and multi-disciplinary.
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February Pharmacy Insights Issue Dedicated to Emergency Preparedness
Pharmacists play a critical role medical in counter measurement procurement and cache placement that necessitate their involvement in planning and response phases of disasters.
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Health Risk Assessment after Fukushima Nuclear Accident***
World Health Organization
The recently released report from the World Health Organization provides the conclusions of an assessment completed by a group of international experts on the predicted health risks for the general population in Japan as a result of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster.
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New in the Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health***
http://go.usa.gov/gQ3x
Whole Community Inclusion Project: Resource Guide for Accommodating At-Risk, Vulnerable or Minority Community Members in Mass Dispensing Plans
By the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials and National Association of County and City Health Officials
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 2013 Roadmaps to Health Prize Winner
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) “Roadmaps to Health Prize” honors outstanding community partnerships, which are helping people live healthier lives. One of the six prize winners is a cross-sector partnership in New Orleans that is making public health and prevention a major component of the ongoing Katrina recovery effort.
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Digital Disaster Relief and Summit for Good
(information forwarded by Sioban Champ-Blackwell, NLM)
Wendy Harman, Director of Social Strategy, American Red Cross (@wharman); David Kobia, Director of Technology Development, Ushahidi (@dkobia/) and Samantha Murphy, Mashable (@MurphySamanthaJ) discuss the use of social media as a communication tool during disasters.
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HHS Announces New Disease-Tracking Twitter App Government Health IT (8/14, McCann)
HHS ANNOUNCES NEW DISEASE-TRACKING TWITTER APP. Government Health IT (9/14, McCann) reported that HHS said Friday that that MappyHealth won a Twitter developers' challenge and will be "a new Web-based application tool available to public health officials."
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***Webinar: When Every Drop Counts: States and Locals Respond to Drought***
Tuesday, Sep. 18, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. EDT
This is the second in a four-part series “Drought: When Every Drop Counts,” co-sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry and the American Public Health Association. This year, the U.S. is facing the most extensive drought in more than 50 years, which is challenging many jurisdictions with drought-related health impacts for the first time. T
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2010-2011 Course & Event Catalog
2009 Course & Event Catalog
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