Abstract
At the intersection of online education and preparedness, Johns Hopkins University’s (JHU) Center for Public Health Preparedness provides all-hazards preparedness and response training for public health and public safety professionals. This report comes from Jonathan Links’ keynote address to the Sloan Summer Research Workshop in Baltimore, Maryland in August 2006.
Highlights
In 2000, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) developed a national network of Centers for Public Health Preparedness (CPHP) [1]:...to strengthen terrorism and emergency preparedness by linking academic expertise to state and local health agency needs
52 CPHPs are established in universities within schools and colleges of public health, medicine, nursing, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, biological sciences, in a community college, and in several university-based medical and health science centers
CPHPs work in close collaboration with state and local health agencies to develop, deliver, and evaluate preparedness education based on community need. [1]
Summary
In 2000, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) developed a national network of Centers for Public Health Preparedness (CPHP) [1]:. Funded by CDC and led by Jonathan Links [2], the Johns Hopkins University-Center for Public Health Preparedness (JH-CPHP) [3] provides training and education to public health and public safety personnel at the state and local levels, as well as in community-based organizations and other entities charged with carrying out CDC programs and the control and prevention of bioterrorism and infectious disease through all other types of hazards and emergencies (natural, accidental, intentional). Develop and implement a model infrastructure for effective JH enterprise-wide planning and preparedness for critical events requiring a medical/public health disaster response. 2. To develop a model medical/public health disaster response plan integrated with local, regional, Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, Volume 12: Issue 2. JH-CPHP staff [5] includes a coordinator, trainers, mental health expert, instructional designer, and faculty from the Center for Teaching and Learning with Technology, Environmental Health Sciences, Health Policy & Management, Interdepartmental Program in Applied Public Health, International Health, the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, Psychiatry and Behavior Sciences, and other faculty in the School of Public Health and School of Medicine
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