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EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT 2 Emergency Management For what specific threats (man-made or natural) has their agency prepared? (There will likely be different focuses in different areas of the country.) I interviewed a person working in the Joint Information Center under the Emergency Operations Center in Colorado State. The agency participated in preparing and responding to the Ebola outbreak that occurred in 2014 in West Africa (Nemeth, 2016). The agency took a central role in ensuring efficient coordination for technical assistance in the region as well as creating disease control measures with different partners. The preparation and response also constituted surveillance, data management, laboratory testing, contract tracing and public health education (Bell, 2016). The designated officers in the region offered adequate support with communication, management, staffing, logistical work and analytics to facilitate prompted procedures to counter the disease effectively. The exercise ensured that travelers that came from West Africa entering the United States had to undergo thorough screening (Bell, 2016). It was a critical exercise to identify infected people for the government to offer them immediate medical attention to inhibit the disease from spreading into the U.S. Specified airports were designated for these travelers from countries such as Sierra Leone, Mali, Liberia and Guinea. Statistically, the CDC (Center for Disease Control) provided comprehensive training for at least 24,000 health workers in the West African region for various prevention and management practices (Bell, 2016).

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT 3 How have they partnered with other local government agencies (i.e., law enforcement, EMS, school district, etc.)? The agency collaborated with different local and international agencies to curb the threats that the Ebola outbreak in 2014. Some infections had been reported in the U.S and the pattern of infections required immediate intervention (Nemeth, 2016). The CDC amassed concerted efforts with international partners to produce effective prevention and management protocol for the disease. DARTs (Disaster Assistance Response Teams) was among the agencies from the U.S that collaborated with the CDC (Bell, 2016). The CDC also partnered with local public facilities in West Africa to impart knowledge on preventive measures and practices that could effectively control the disease. These collaborations were the foundational principle that the CDC had planned to have collective efforts towards eliminating the infections of the disease (Nemeth, 2016). The local agencies in West Africa also had a tremendous role in identifying the most affected regions and working with U.S officials helped augment their knowledge on disease management. How have they partnered with private organizations within their community? Under the Steps program, the agency has partnered with different private organizations to enhance its efficiency in the community. Private universities and colleges are partners with the agency and their number is 35 (Easton, 2009). The Step communities entered partnerships with these entities to provide them with the expertise needed in the evaluation and subsequent

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EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT 4 dissemination of information for evaluation plans in terms of disasters (Nemeth, 2016). The agency also partnered with private healthcare institutions to provide enhanced expertise For instance, a pharmacy in the local community partnered with the agency to promote asthma awareness by posting information on diagnosing the disease without medical assistance (Ryan, 2013). The communities in the program partnered with different insurance companies to execute the referrals of patients to engage with the program’s healthcare activities. To what extent do they partner with federal agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security? The agency has partnered with the federal agencies to empower them with the competence to manage disaster outbreaks. For instance, the Zika Virus outbreak became a principal threat for children and women in the U.S. CDC officers had the required skills to educate healthcare volunteers on managing the viral infections. The agency, therefore, offered these lessons through the Incident Manager Training and Development program that educated the volunteers on effective response to the disease (Easton, 2009). Another federal agency that has partnered with the department is the Public Health preparedness Resource that helps people in Kentucky to fight their Opioid Overdose because it had become a pandemic (Easton, 2009). The collaboration was entered with the Kentucky Department for Public Health to operate with the Kentucky Pharmacists Association to cater for all medical procedures to curb the virus. The agency also partnered with the Brown-Miller Communications for the “Value It” campaign. The campaign aimed to run a thorough promotion on the importance of preserving

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT 5 personal health (Easton, 2009). The campaign was hugely successful because it helped many people understand their health and maintain it. How do they engage their community in preparing for and preventing natural and/or man- made disasters? Under the PHEP (Public Health Emergency Preparedness) program, the agency engages the community in the preparation and prevention of all forms of disasters. The program functions to benefit 62 public health departments in the local, state and territorial jurisdiction. The program principally focuses on evaluation, guidance and technical assistance. Guidance centralizes on ensuring that the jurisdictions have the most updated information for the protection of the local communities involved (Nemeth, 2016). Technical assistance functions to ensure that the public health departments in the specified regions are ready to respond to any disasters at all times. The evaluation mainly describes the preparedness level of the different public health departments in responding to unforeseen emergencies (Nemeth, 2016). The dominant areas that the program runs are community resilience, information management, countermeasures and subsequent mitigation actions as well as incident management, bio-surveillance and surge management. Resilience is found in the preparation and recovery from any disaster while the coordination processes are the response actions needed (Nemeth, 2016). Information management deals with imparting people with the necessary information to counter any calamity actions. Surge management ensures that all the amplified disease infections are effectively managed (Nemeth, 2016). The investigation and identification falls under the bio-surveillance domain that works to find new disease threats and eliminate them through the other functions of the program. It is

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT 6 evident that this program has copious benefits to the public, the health workers and the entirety of the state and federal government because many processes that benefit the public health are executed under this program. References Bell, B. P. (2016). Overview, control strategies, and lessons learned in the CDC response to the 2014–2016 Ebola epidemic. MMWR supplements, 65. Easton, A. (2009). Public-private partnerships and public health practice in the 21st century: looking back at the experience of the Steps Program. Preventing Chronic Disease, 6 (2). Nemeth, C. P. (2016). Homeland Security: An Introduction to Principles and Practice, Third Edition . Boca Raton: Chapman & Hall/CRC Press. Ryan, M. (2013). Planning in the emergency operations center. Technological forecasting and social change, 80 (9), 1725-1731.

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