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to Public Health for Local Partners and Stakeholders is a CD
training tool that introduces police and fire/EMS cadets to the
principles of public health, with particular emphasis on the
roles and responsibilities of public health during an emergency.
This course reinforces the collaborative nature of emergency
preparedness and the critical need to work together to ensure a
coordinated, efficient community response. It contains both a
didactic piece and Train-the-Trainer notes on public health,
preparedness, Strategic National Stockpile (SNS), epidemiology,
and isolation and quarantine. In addition to the didactic piece,
there are two scenarios -- avian influenza and white powder
incident -- to help demonstrate how and where public health and
law enforcement interface. This tool was pilot tested among
Tarrant County police and fire/EMS, and the material for this
tool is used on a regular basis at police academies to teach
cadets. At each session pr