Webinar: The Importance of Environmental Health Preparedness and Response

ASTHO is hosting a two-part webinar series on various preparedness and response tactics during extreme weather events. This first webinar will feature work done by North Carolina and South Carolina. The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services will highlight their activities to update existing guidance and communication materials and develop a new training curriculum to improve community groups' food safety knowledge. The South Carolina Department of Public Health will describe their efforts to create the Post-Disaster Surveillance System, a platform that helps determine health-related issues following a disaster. The second webinar in the series will feature work done by Florida and Puerto Rico. 

Speakers:

• James Gooch, MPH, REHS/RS, Commander, United States Public Health Service, Disaster Risk Reduction Team Chief, Emerging Environmental Hazards and Health Effects Branch, Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice, National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, CDC/ATSDR
• Veronica Bryant, Emergency Preparedness and Outbreak Coordinator, Division of Public Health, Environmental Health Section, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
• CeCe George, MBA, Disaster Surveillance Lead, Bureau of Emergency Preparedness and Response, South Carolina Department of Public Health

This webinar will take place on Wednesday, October 29 at 3:00 p.m. ET. 

Click here to register for the webinar.