Standards Organizations: A Helpful Road Map for Emergency Responders
Diana Hopkins
July 23, 2008
Where are standards these days? And who (or what agency) decides on them, determines their content, announces and implements them, and – if necessary and permitted by law – enforces them?
Bournemouth Report: The Conference Where Nothing Happened
Steve Fortado
July 23, 2008
Working in close cooperation with the private sector – Thermo Fisher Scientific, to be more
specific – the U.K.’s Dorset Police Department scored what Americans would call a “no hitter” at last
year’s Labour Party Conference in Bournemouth.
CDC's Career Epidemiology Field Officer Program
Ruth Marrero
July 23, 2008
The innovative CEFO Program represents a new national resource that is already being used by 21 states to strengthen their own epidemiological preparedness capabilities, with other states sure to follow in the near future.
The Gap Analysis Tool: Building Blocks for Preparedness
Kelly R. McKinney and Joseph Picciano
July 16, 2008
Best-case estimates provide a shaky foundation for all-hazards disaster plans; worst-case estimates may cost more in the short term, therefore, but are a better working tool for post-incident response and recovery efforts.
Sorting It All Out: Triage, CERT, and EMS
Joseph Cahill
July 9, 2008
Community Emergency Response Team members are often the only medical “reserve” available to a community hit by a mass-casualty incident. But, like the medical professionals they are helping, they face some difficult questions impossible to answer.
