This ninety-minute program, originally broadcast on February 3, 2005 from the University at Albany's Center for Public Health Preparedness, provides community and organizational planners with reliable information from the public that they can use now to strengthen their plans to respond to terrorist attacks.
The study identifies two important benefits that communities can achieve by giving their residents an influential role in preparedness planning. The first is the development of plans for protecting many more people and the second benefit relates to trusting the official instructions by being part of this planning process.
Program objectives include:
- Describe the methods used for collecting information from the public about terrorism planning
- Understand the reasons for likely non-compliance of population segments with "top-down" preparedness planning
- Support the local planning processes by more accurately reflecting concerns and limitations of the affected public
Other products that may be of interest include:
- Communication During Crisis: The Role of Media During Public Health Emergencies;
- Coordinating Community Response: Public Health, Hospitals, Law Enforcement and Emergency Management Services;
- Crisis & Emergency Risk Communication;
- Mass Casualty Incident Management (MCI); and
- Bioterrorism Preparedness/Response Planning for Diverse Public Health Communities.
Roz Lasker, MD, Director, Division of Public Health and the Center for the Advancement of Collaborative Strategies in Health at the New York Academy of Medicine is the Speaker.
Dr. Stephen Morses, Associate Direcor for the Center for Public Health Preparedness, Columbia University, New York City and Dr. Glenn Paulson, Director, New Jersey Center for Public Health Preparedness with UMDNJ School of Public Health will join Dr. Lasker for a 30-minute discussion.
Peter Slocum, Vice President for Advocacy for the American Cancer Society and Clinical Associate Professor at the University at Albany School of Public Health is the Moderator.
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