Preconference Workshops

Summit attendees must pre-register for Pre-Conference Workshops. The registration fee for a 2-hour workshop is $50 unless otherwise noted. Click here for instructions on adding a workshop to your registration.

Emergency Management Assistance Compact: Making EMAC Work for You

Tuesday February 16th, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Room: M302/M303

Workshop

Session Number: 124

During disasters, access to essential resources enables responders to manage emergencies more effectively. Specific response and recovery capabilities from mission ready packages (MRP) are organized, developed, trained, and exercised prior to an emergency. MRPs are based on the National Incident Management System resource typing, taking the concept one step further by combining mission limitations, necessary logistical support, the footprint of the space needed to stage and conduct the mission, the estimated cost, and credentialed personnel. Developing and maintaining an MRP with a complete cost estimate will result in a more efficient deployment and will also facilitate reimbursement.

Registration Fee: $50

Mass Fatality Incidents: Integrating Lessons Learned into Regional Planning and Response

Tuesday February 16th, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Room: A601

Workshop

Session Number: 475

Pandemic flu has recently shifted the focus away from regional mass fatality management planning that is critical for an effective response to a natural or manmade disaster. In February 2009, the crash of Continental Flight 3407 in western New York state provided an unfortunate reminder that mass fatality incidents happen without regard to current natural occurring events. Workshop participants will be guided through a discussion of best practices and lessons learned from this event and its relation to planning for future incidents involving mass fatalities. Discussion topics will include plan activation, command and control, initial emergency medical service response, human remains management, communications, and psychosocial considerations, including coordination with the Family Assistance Center and partnerships with disaster mortuary operational response teams. Each participant will receive a mass fatality planning template for healthcare delivery organizations that includes job action sheets and other planning aids.

Registration Fee: $50

Engaging and Communicating Effectively with the Business Community in H1N1 Preparedness

Tuesday February 16th, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Room: M301

Workshop

Session Number: 360

Working with the business community to develop effective strategies that keep businesses financially functional while providing job and financial security to employees, is a critical element in the successful implementation of community mitigation measures and H1N1 recovery efforts. In this session, participants will learn about employers' priorities in an H1N1 outbreak, abilities to adopt mitigation strategies that maintain employee job security, and specific information needs in H1N1 emergency planning. The presenters will provide up-to-date information about the business community's needs that have been gleaned from an extensive poll of over 1,000 employers in the United States focused specifically on this issue.

Registration Fee: $50

Get Your Message to the Masses: Social Media and Mass Antibiotic Dispensing Campaigns

Tuesday February 16th, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Room: International 8/9

Workshop

Session Number: 411

Communicating during emergencies is difficult. Large-scale emergencies will pose even bigger challenges when it comes to communicating public information. Participants will learn how to harness social media tools for a mass antibiotic dispensing campaign where the public will need to go to a point of dispensing site to receive life saving medicine. In addition participants will learn the advantages of social media tools and how to develop a message strategy for using these tools. Social media efforts on public health topics will be used to illustrate best practices.

Registration Fee: $50

Public Health Emergency Project Management: What Are We Waiting for?

Tuesday February 16th, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Room: International 10

Workshop

Session Number: 353

Emergency project management (EPM) is the application of scientific project management concepts and methods to emergency preparedness and response projects. Before a public health emergency, EPM methods and software tools can be used to guide the planning of response activities. During an event, EPM concepts can be applied to ensure simple steps are taken to shorten response times (e.g., working on tasks in parallel and requesting more resources to execute tasks). Participants will be able to describe basic project management concepts; apply basic project management concepts and methods to emergency preparedness and response projects; and describe how software solutions (e.g., Microsoft Project) can be used to support emergency project management.

Registration Fee: $50

Maintaining Strategic Focus during Emergent Situations

Tuesday February 16th, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Room: International 6/7

Workshop

Session Number: 491

Join Deloitte Consulting in an interactive workshop that will introduce participants to a strategic management system to support the achievement and communication of your highest priorities, even while responding to emergent situations. The need to maintain focus was emphasized during the recent response to H1N1 influenza, when trying to strike a balance between managing mission-related health department programs and functions, while concurrently responding to community needs. This was exacerbated by the ongoing nature of the H1N1 response, which led to workforce and resource challenges, impacting both the response efforts and mission-critical health department programs. Learn how a strategic management system, including the balanced scorecard, can help you manage and communicate your priorities, and facilitate performance improvement within your public health agency.