An emergency management program at University of Hawai‘i, Manoa, has unveiled a web-based series of disaster preparedness training and education classes for public health professionals in Hawai‘i, California and the U.S.-affiliated Pacific islands. A UH press release states, through a
An emergency management program at University of Hawai‘i, Manoa, has unveiled a web-based series of disaster preparedness training and education classes for public health professionals in Hawai‘i, California and the U.S.-affiliated Pacific islands.
A UH press release states, through a partnership with Yale University’s School of Medicine, participants who enroll will receive continuing medical education credits for the online courses on bioterrorism and other public health threats.
The program, developed by the Pacific Emergency Management Preparedness and Response Information Network and Training Services, also features innovative online problem-based teaching cases that take the learner through mock scenarios for potential public health threats.
It is the only program in the United States that offers this kind of problem-based training online.
The Web site also includes simulated live training exercises and links to relevant news and additional online disaster preparedness resources.
“We are especially pleased that the training site will be updated continually to incorporate the most current information,” said Ann Sakaguchi, principal investigator for the program, in a news release.
“This will be of tremendous value to physicians, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, mental health and other healthcare and public health professionals. We will also be launching web-based GIS classes on emergency management in fall 2007.”
The new program is funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and administered by the UH Manoa Department of Anthropology.
Pacific EMPRINTS has also developed a network if partnerships among healthcare organization and universities throughout Hawai‘i and the Mainland, including UCLA, UC Berkeley, and Loma Linda and San Diego State Universities.
