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Name	PER-410 Enhancing Preparedness and Response to Public Health Emergencies
	The course goal is to improve the ability of public, private, and nonprofit partners to establish more effective and coordinated preparedness and response efforts for pandemic, biological, natural, or man-made disaster-related public health (PH) emergencies. The program will incorporate lessons learned from PH response challenges that have occurred as part of COVID-19 and emphasize finding community solutions to more effectively manage the future dynamics and changing/ variable requirements of future large-scale PH emergencies at the community level. For the first component of the program, States will complete a Program Assessment Tool to identify issues and challenges faced in dealing with large-scale PH emergencies in the past. The second component will be the delivery of this 2-day workshop that will focus on the development of and strengthening of agency, community, and private sector partnerships and coalitions to support whole community, sustainable solutions. The workshop will c
Target Audience	Mission Areas: Respond Common Mitigation
Course Objective	Analyze coordination lessons learned from past emergency response efforts to natural or man-made disasters or pandemics; Propose strategies to enhance coordination between PH and emergency management including at the local level; Implement development and coordination of health care coalitions and other community and private sector partnerships to support PH emergency response; Evaluate gaps and design community relevant strategies to enhance coordination during large scale PH emergencies including at the local level Analyze strategies to disseminate risk-based information at the community level to encourage wide dissemination and community uptake especially for at-risk individuals; Design risk communication and messaging strategies to disseminate PH information, counter misinformation and encourage community using public, private and community partners including ethnic and minority partners; Examine use of social centers where information is exchanged at the community level to
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