Public Health Preparedness and Response Lesson Plans

Public preparedness and emergency response relies on planning to assist in assessing an emergency situation, communicating with key health personnel, establishing objectives and an action plan, organizing personnel and resources, and responding to assistance requests (Source: CDC’s Emergency Response Guide[PDF – 65 pages]).

These lesson plans explore public health as a multidimensional system for solving complex problems and providing health security.

Learning objectives:

• Develop and use a model illustrating the organization of systems (e.g., scientific, social, economic, environmental, cultural, political) and patterns of performance, such as how ongoing changes in one system may have variable effects on individual and societal health-related decisions, to improve health and prevent disease under emergency conditions
• Design, evaluate, and refine preparedness and action plan based on scientific knowledge, health promotion and communication strategies, prioritized criteria, and trade-off considerations
• Evaluate the effectiveness of competing preparedness and action plan strategies based on response efforts to re-engineer or improve strategies and policies