Memorandum
Date: February 11, 2020
To: The Honorable Moke Simon, Chair, Lake County Board of Supervisors
From: Denise Pomeroy, Health Services Director
Subject: Approve Long Distance Travel for Dr. Gary Pace, Iyesha Miller, Dean Eichelmann, Christine Hannigan, Jasjit Kang, and Craig Wetherbee to Anniston Alabama March 21st 2020 through March 28th 2020 to attend the Disaster Related Exposure Assessment and Monitoring (DREAM) training.
Executive Summary:
Dr. Gary Pace, Health Officer, Iyesha Miller, Health Programs Manager, Dean Eichelmann, Emergency Preparedness Coordinator, Christine Hannigan, Health Programs Support Specialist II, Jasjit Kang, Environmental Health Director, and Craig Wetherbee, Hazardous Materials specialist III, have been invited to attend the 2020 Disaster Related Exposure Assessment and Monitoring (DREAM) training by FEMA.
The DREAM training is a four-day course designed to provide knowledge and experience in assessing, monitoring, and tracking health effects to emergency responders and community members before, during and after, an emergency or disaster. This includes exposures to chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, explosives, and other hazards.
The course provides training experience on disaster epidemiologic tools that combines Emergency Responder Health Monitoring and Surveillance (ERHMS), Assessment of Chemical Exposure (ACE), and Epi CASE (Case Assessment Symptom and Exposure) tools developed by the U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) with additional training on disaster response and a capstone exercise.
This type of team based emergency response training or the opportunity to train together with other emergency response teams is not available to us locally.
Below are some, but not all, of the critical skill sets learned during this training program:
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