Strategic Preparedness Planning

The Heartland Centers bioterrorism and all hazard preparedness education and training programs involve the full range of preparedness planning, education, and support activities to assist our partners to better prevent, detect, contain, and recover from all hazard and high consequence events. Our preparedness capacity include expertise in Technical Advisory support activities, to state, local, and federal law enforcement, public health, and emergency management agencies, including community based preparedness agencies. HC provides a full range of preparedness education and training services involving exercise design, development, facilitation, and evaluation including technology mediated simulation training. In addition, expertise and capacity is provided in the areas of strategic preparedness planning, crisis leadership development, NIMS/ICS, mass casualty/high consequence management, school health preparedness, food biosecurity, pandemic flu preparedness, and preparedness distant learning offerings through the Heartland Centers Learning Management System (LMS). HC has the technical capacity to produce CD-ROMs for distribution across the full range of educational offerings in preparedness, such as public health nursing, NIMS/ICS, risk/crisis communication, and exercise design and development. Educational program evaluations are based on competency-based approaches with individual and organizational impact performance measurements. For more information, please contact Mike Thomas at thomasmw@slu.edu or 314-977-4350.

The Emerging Leaders Institute is sponsored by the UIC-SPH Center for Public Health Practice and the Heartland Centers at St. Louis University, School of Public Health. The Institute is part of a continuum of training programs that strengthen the public health workforce through coordinated training and organizational development. The Emerging Leaders Institute builds public health practice by combining cutting edge face-to-face training with individual infrastructure improvement projects. As the conclusion of the program, Fellows will be prepared to assume leadership positions within their agencies, and will have the skills necessary to lead collaborative initiatives that characterize public health practice.

Kick-Off Conference
May 14-16, 2008
UIC-SPH in Chicago, IL

Dates and locations for the six and twelve month meetings will be announced soon! For eligibility and fee information, contact Rani Saxena at
312-996-7919 or at rmishra@uic.edu