Provider: CDC

Description: This web page addresses key topics for environmental health practitioners who perform many critical functions in shelters. Examples include conducting shelter assessments, testing drinking water supplies, conducting food safety inspections, and evaluating general safety and sanitation. Key topics include:

• CDC Shelter Assessment Tool [1] – This environmental health shelter assessment tool assists environmental health practitioners in conducting a rapid assessment of shelter conditions during emergencies and disasters
• Chemical Agents: Facts About Sheltering in Place [2] – precautions about sheltering in place after a chemical incident
• Disaster Information for Pet Shelters [3] – guidelines for animal health & control of disease transmission in pet shelters and other information about pet shelters
• Infection Control Guidance for Community Evacuation Centers Following Disasters [4] – recommendations for basic infection control guidance to prevent exposure to or transmission of infectious diseases in temporary community evacuation centers
• Learn How to Shelter in Place [5] – information about how to know when to shelter-in-place
• Sheltering in Place During a Radiation Emergency [6] – precautions to help reduce exposure to radiation

Environmental Health Training in Emergency Response [7] – training addresses information on shelters and many environmental health topics commonly faced in response to emergency events

Public Health Surveillance During a Disaster [8] – information to assess the human health impacts of a disaster and evaluate potential problems such as disease outbreaks

Target audience:  Environmental health practitioners

Access at Shelters (Evacuation and Emergency) [9]

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Provider: South Central Public Health Partnership (Tulane University and University of Alabama at Birmingham)

Course Description: The lectures in this course focus on teaching environmental health specialists how they can apply their knowledge of everyday environmental health problems to dealing with environmental health issues that arise in the creation of mass shelters that may follow a major disaster. The lectures provide the learner with an introductory overview of the course topic and offers general knowledge of the subject matter.

Course Objectives: By the end of this course, the student should be able to describe key environmental health issues and the roles of environmental health professionals in shelter operations.

Time Requirement: 1 to 3 hours

Target Audience: Environmental health professionals

Access at Environmental Health and Shelters [11]

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