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The tribal emergency preparedness and response training project was developed through a partnership with the Arizona Department of Health Services, Office of Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response and the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. The workshops were implemented statewide through five regional 1 ½ day sessions. The purpose of the workshops were to ensure tribal communities are adequately informed, aware and skilled to implement coordinated response plans to a range of potential public health emergencies on tribal lands and in surrounding communities. The Workshops were divided into three modules and interactive case studies:
- Module 1: Description of the Roles of Public Health
- Module 2: Bio-terrorism and How it Relates to Public Health
- Module 3: Community Emergency Preparedness and Response
- Final Report
- Case Studies
The Epidemiology Series is a three-part comprehensive epidemiology program delivered in a blended instruction format. The Epidemiology Series is comprised of Epidemiology for Preparedness, Outbreak Epidemiology, and Forensic Epidemiology.
This workshop was designed to help participants better understand the roles and responsibilities of the Incident Command System (ICS). Unlike traditional online and classroom-based ICS courses, participants are provided the opportunity to apply their ICS knowledge in a functional exercise that focuses on a public health incident. Participants are assigned ICS roles and responsibilities and have the opportunity to receive coaching from Subject Matter Experts with practical expertise in ICS. These ICS experts provide participants with real-time advice and answers to help learn the practice of emergency response.
The “Talking Circle” is a an approach used in this workshop to deliever the history of the Incident Command System, basic epidemilogical principles, and personal preparedness. It is a culturally appropriate teaching format used among many Native-American tribes. Often used as a teaching format by health educators for health promotion purposes, the Talking Circle provides a culturally appropriate methodology for teaching public health preparedness, ICS and epidemiological concepts to Native-American Community Health Representatives.
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