Search Instructions:
* Filter the ENTIRE resource library: Choose a OR a to sort all resources.
* Choose Search Items : to filter one collection or perform complex queries.
* Choose Browse by Topic to search by one or more Topics.
Browse Items (29 total)
-
Creator: Bogucki, S., and A. Isakov.
Subject: Intake and Internal Transport
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2015-05
Description: Many months into a still-worsening epidemic of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in three West African nations, the U.S. health care system was challenged by its first undiagnosed EVD patient presenting to a hospital emergency department (ED) in Dallas,… -
Creator: Nathan L. Yozwiak, Christian T. Happi, Donald S. Grant, John S. Schieffelin, Robert F. Garry, Pardis C. Sabeti, and Kristian G. Andersen, on behalf of the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium and the African Center of Excellence for Genomics of…
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2016-06-30
Description: Summary
Recent infectious disease epidemics illustrate how health systems failures anywhere can create disease vulnerabilities everywhere. We must therefore prioritize investments in health care infrastructure in outbreak-prone regions of the… -
Creator: CDC
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2016-11-03
Description: About Pandemic Influenza Purpose An influenza pandemic is a global outbreak of a new influenza A virus that is very different from current and recently circulating human seasonal influenza A viruses. Pandemics happen when new (novel) influenza A… -
Creator: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Subject: General
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2019-02-01
Description: Memorandum Summary (CMS) Emergency Preparedness Requirements for Medicare and Medicaid Participating Providers and Suppliers: On September 16, 2016, the Emergency Preparedness Requirements for Medicare and Medicaid Participating Providers and… -
Creator: Jennifer Andonian, Kelsie E. Galusha, Lisa L. Maragakis, and Brian T. Garibaldi.
Subject: General
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2019-02-19
Description: In response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) funded the creation of 10 Regional Ebola and Other Special Pathogen Treatment Centers (RESPTCs) across the United States. -
Creator: Center for Global Development (CGD)
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2019-05-09
Description: This report explores the lessons of the Ebola outbreak [2014-2015] through the lens of the US and UN policymakers who were forced to construct an unprecedented response in real time. It tells the story of their choices around four major policy… -
Creator: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Network for Public Health Law
Subject: General
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2019-07-18
Description: This primer provides key information on the 2018-2019 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, including international response efforts, U.S. preparedness and response, an outline of the major legal challenges, and emergency legal… -
Creator: Jones, Rachael M., Susan C. Bleasdale, Dayana Maita, and Lisa M. Brosseau, for the C. D. C. Prevention Epicenters Program.
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-01
Description: Personal protective equipment (PPE) is a primary strategy to protect health care personnel (HCP) from infectious diseases. When transmission-based PPE ensembles are not appropriate, HCP must recognize the transmission pathway of the disease and…Example only: NETEC provides this item for reference purposes but does not endorse its content. Newer versions may be in place at the providing institution.
-
Creator: Predictive Healthcare team at Penn Medicine
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Hyperlink
Date Last Updated: 2020-03-16
Description: This tool was developed by the Predictive Healthcare team at Penn Medicine. For questions and comments please see their contact page. Code can be found on Github. You can join their Slack channel if you would like to get involved. Discrete-time SIR… -
Creator: Madad, Syra, Joshua Moskovitz, Matthew R. Boyce, Nicholas V. Cagliuso, and Rebecca Katz.
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-03-16
Description: Over the past century, society has achieved great gains in medicine, public health, and health-care infrastructure, particularly in the areas of vaccines, antibiotics, sanitation, intensive care and medical technology.