2008 Advanced Practice Centers Training Resources: Tarrant County APC

Topic and Presenter Information

• Building a Public Health Community of Practice: How to Take Biosurveillance to the Next Level and Reap its Broad Benefits --- Tarrant County Advanced Practice Center, Fort Worth, TX
  

  Presenters: Bill Stephens, MS, Dean Lampman, MBA, and Kay Sanyal-Mukherji, MPH

Overview: Participants will gain familiarity with the concept of a public health community of practice in which biosurveillance data is gathered and shared between key stakeholders and public health in a comprehensive, collaborative, rigorous manner with benefits accruing across multiple functional areas. The training session will provide examples of disciplined epidemiological investigation processes (a.k.a. response protocols) now being used at the national, state and local levels to support enhanced, rapid decision-making in communities of practice across various jurisdictions. Participants will apply lessons learned from the training in interactive exercises that involve both defining a response protocol and responding to surveillance signals reflecting a simulated public health threat.

Training Resources

• Overview (PDF)
• Pre/Post-Test (Word)
• Pre/Post-Test Answer Key (Word)
• Building a Public Health Community of Practice: How to Take Biosurveillance to the Next Level and Reap its Broad Benefits (PowerPoint) (PDF)
• UASI Scenario: The Christmas Shopping Trip From Hell (PDF)
• Salmonella Outbreak in HSR 2/3 (PDF)
• Preconditions for Deciding on Minimum Data Set Elements (PDF)
• Minimum Data Set (PDF)
• Anomaly Characterization Process (PDF)
• Challenges to Rapid Clinical Detection of Select Agents (PDF)
• Region has 'Radar' for Outbreaks (PDF)
• Syndromic Surveillance on the Epidemiologist's Desktop: Making Sense of Much Data (PDF)
• Tarrant County Evaluation Study - Final Report (PDF)
• Warning & Surveillance Systems Standard Operating Guideline to Annex H (PDF)
• References and Resources to Learn More (PDF)
• Products from the Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice (PDF)
• CD Request Form (PDF)

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Trainer's Guide and CD-ROM

Available in May: a Trainer's Guide and CD-ROM containing resources from all 8 presentations at the 2008 Advanced Practice Centers Training Conference. To order, contact APC Project Manager Carol Gunther-Mohr at cgm@email.unc.edu or 919-843-2518.

For information on the NACCHO Advanced Practice Centers program, visit www.naccho.org/topics/emergency/APC.cfm