Welcome! Decision Making for Using Community Mitigation Measures: Planning for Influenza and Other...

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Welcome! Decision Making for Using Community Mitigation Measures: Planning for Influenza and Other Public Health Emergencies 19-20 January 2011 Caribbean Regional Workshop

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Welcome!

Decision Making for Using Community

Mitigation Measures: Planning

for Influenza and Other Public Health

Emergencies 19-20 January 2011Caribbean Regional

Workshop

Registration

Please Complete the Pre Workshop Questionnaire

Welcome and Opening Ceremony

Dr. Guillermo Troya, MD

Advisor Health Services Administration

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)

World Health Organization (WHO)

Ms. Yvonne Lewis

DirectorHealth Promotion

Ministry of Health, Trinidad and Tobago

Introductions of Special Guests,

Workshop Faculty, and Staff

Dr. Emily B. Kahn, PhD, MPHSenior Epidemiologist

Community Interventions for Infection Control

Division of Global Migration and Quarantine

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Dr. Alfonso Contreras, MD, MPH

Regional Advisor in Health Promotion and Communication

Pan American Health Organization World Health Organization

Introductions of Participants

Name: Occupation:Organizatio

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Today’sAgenda

Participant Guide

Workshop Objectives

Understand community mitigation strategies to respond to an influenza pandemic, seasonal influenza epidemics or other public health emergency

Understand and apply the principles of risk communication needed to communicate with the public and the media during an influenza pandemic, seasonal influenza epidemics or other public health emergency

Identify the key components of the decision-making process for use of community mitigation measures during an influenza pandemic, seasonal influenza epidemics or other public health emergency

Practice using the decision-making process for use of community mitigation measures

Open Your Tool Kit!

Tool Kit Inventory

Participant Guide Learning Objectives, Agenda, Biographies,

Other Resources, Glossary, Web Sites for Working with Businesses, Slides

Printed Planning Tools CM Decision Making Tool Posters A Job Aid for Trainers (Key Ring) CD and USB Flash Drive Hand Sanitizer Wipes

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