This course presents the fundamentals of public health program evaluation. The goal of this course is to provide you with an introduction to the concepts necessary for running a successful public health program evaluation and how these concepts apply to the field of emergency preparedness.

Learning objectives:

1. Understand the different aspects of public health emergency preparedness capabilities
2. Recognize the different types of program evaluations
3. Understand the role of logic models in conducting a program evaluation
4. Distinguish the different indicators and understand their roles in conducting a program evaluation

Principles of Program Evaluation in Emergency Preparedness – Dr. Savoia and Dr. Bernard 

This online training is designed for public health practitioners, emergency management, academic researchers, healthcare workers and anyone that may work on challenging public health events and wishes to learn from those events.

Learning objectives:

1. Describe critical incidents
2. Understand analysis of critical incidents
3. Describe challenges of critical incident analysis
4. Understand the Root Cause Analysis and Peer Assessment methods

Module 1 – Learning from Critical Incidents – Dr. Stoto 

Module 2 – Introduction to Root Cause Analysis – Dr. Bernard 

Module 3 – How to Conduct a Root Cause Analysis – Dr. Bernard

Module 4 – The Peer Assessment Process – Dr. Bernard

Supplementary courses:

Management and Facilitation of an After Action Review – WHO

This course addresses the use of exercises to enhance and measure preparedness. Topics covered include a description of a preparedness exercise, and the purposes of exercises. The course also describes the process of designing, conducting, and evaluating exercises, as well as common pitfalls people experience in executing preparedness exercises. Learning objectives will help to enhance one’s ability to ‘participate in improving the organization’s capacities’ which is competency 3.3 under Plan and Improve Practice.

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe the types of preparedness exercises
2. Understand the components of a discussion-based exercise
3. Understand the components of an operation- based exercise
4. Learn the attributes of a successful exercise
5. Learn about the exercise evaluation and improvement process

Module 1 – Using Exercises to Measure Preparedness – Dr. Biddinger & Dr. Savoia

Module 2 – Exercise Evaluator Training – Dr. Bernard

The CHEMPACK program began as an initiative of CDC’s Division of Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) in 1983 before oversight and operational control of the SNS and CHEMPACK moved to the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) in early 2018. It provides antidotes (three countermeasures used concomitantly) to nerve agents for pre-positioning by State, local, and/or tribal officials throughout the U.S. CHEMPACK Program is envisioned as a comprehensive capability for the effective use of medical countermeasures in the event of an attack on civilians with nerve agents.

For more information visit: https://chemm.nlm.nih.gov/chempack.htm

Please find below our CHEMPACK training modules conducted by Dr. Bernard:

Module 1 – Introduction to CHEMPACK

Module 2 – Response Procedures for Nerve Agent Incidents

Module 3 – Logistics and Maintenance of CHEMPACK containers