Get ready to visit the National Center for Disaster Preparedness Online, your central source for free, online public health courses offered by Columbia University. New additions to our course roster include a series of webinars from our November 16th, 2009 conference: GIS 3.0: Geospatial Intelligence, Social Data, and the Future of Public Health Preparedness and Response.
	GIS sessions focused on (1) the emerging uses of geospatial intelligence and social data (2) frontiers of public health GIS practice with technologies being used or developed for public health preparedness and response. Click on the links below to access the videos / slides.
	David Abramson, PhD Research Director, NCDP Irwin Redlener, MD, Director, NCDP Introductory Remarks (Video: 10 minutes)
	Tony Jebara, PhD, Co-Founder of Sense Networks Learning Networks of People & Places from Mobile Data (Video & Slides: 55 minutes)
	Eric Rasmussen, MD, CEO of Innovative Support to Emergencies Diseases and Disasters (InSTEDD) Geospatial Intelligence, Social Data and Public Health (Video & Slides: 52 minutes)
	Charles DiMaggio, PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Columbia University Dr. Snow Meets the Rev. Bayes: Spatial Approaches to Disaster Epidemiology (Video & Slides: 47 minutes)
	Steven Johnson (Keynote Speaker) Author of The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - And How it Changed Cities, Science, and the Modern World (Video: 1 hour, 10 minutes)
	Jeb Weisman, PhD, Chief Information Officer, the Children's Health Fund Introductory Remarks for Afternoon Speakers (Video: 2 minutes)
	Chris Goranson, GIS Director of the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Volunteered Geographic Information – Present and Future (Video & Slides: 35 minutes)
	David Abramson, PhD, Research Director, NCDP & Brian Willison, Director of the Parsons Institute for Information Mapping (PIIM) A Presentation of the American HotSpots Project (Video & Slides: 27 minutes)
	Mark Smith, PhD, Epidemiologist, Guilford County Department of Public Health, North Carolina Rapid Assessment: Mobile GIS for Public Health Response (Video & Slides: 23 minutes)
	Theresa Pardo, PhD, Director of the Center for Technology in Government, University of Albany (Coming Soon!)
Featured Online Courses
	Pandemic Influenza The Home Health Care Agency Workforce: An Essential Partner in Community Response No Registration required.
	Examining the “Unanticipated Consequences” of Pandemic Flu No Registration required. Narrated by David Abramson, PhD
	Basic Emergency Preparedness Online Course Registration required. Certificate available upon completion.
	Chemical Emergencies and the Role of Public Health Registration required. Certificate available upon completion.
	Basic Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication for Public Health Workers Registration required. Certificate available upon completion.
	Dealing with Disaster Related Trauma in Young Children Registration required. Certificate available upon completion.
	Basic Emergency Preparedness for Dental Professionals Registration required. Certificate available upon completion.
	Principles of Disaster and Public Health Emergency Response for Journalists Webinar: No Registration required.
	Israel Lessons Learned in Emergency Preparedness Webinar: No Registration required.
Additional Training Resources
	Community Collaboration A H1N1 Pandemic Influenza course uses a "Mission Impossible' - 1960 TV series of espionage, secret agents and missions - to introduce and engage high school students to accept their 'assignment' as Community Health Messengers (Agents) to keep their community prepared and informed. Designed by the Harlem Children's Zone in conjunction with the National Center for Disaster Preparedness.
	Cover Story: Nursing Without Borders, Karen L. Levin's unique combination of clinical expertise
	Basic Emergency Preparedness Course (PDF download)
	Emergency Preparedness and Response Competencies for Hospital Workers
	Pre/Post Test and Learning Objectives
	Instructions for Use of Competency Document
	Building Academic-Practice Partnerships: The Center for Public Health Preparedness at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Before and After 9/11, by Dr. Stephen Morse
	National Consensus Conference: Pediatric Preparedness for Disasters and Terrorism
	Resulting from work performed while the authors were staff members and investigators at National Center for Disaster Preparedness' Center for Public Health Preparedness, this Public Health Incident Command System (PHICS) document is designed to help illustrate how public health can use and help integrate the incident command system into public health emergency response plans.
	Elements of an Outbreak Investigation (PPT)