Category: General
Disaster Movies: Lessons Learned
By Regina Quadir With the Oscars just 3 days away, movies have been on our mind lately here at CDC’s Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response. Especially disaster movies. They come in all kinds of flavors: deadly viruses, tornadoes, earthquakes, and, yes, even snakes on a plane. Read More >
Posted on by 41 CommentsTeachable Moments – Courtesy of The Walking Dead on AMC
By Maggie Silver If you’ve been following our blog, you’ve probably figured out we’re big fans of zombies. While we know zombies are fictional, they tie in so well with another topic we’re deeply invested in, emergency preparedness, that it seems like a perfect match for us! Being true zombie fans, we love The Walking Read More >
Posted on by 44 CommentsHANDI – A Handy App for Public Health
By Melissa McClung, MSPH Denver Public Health The next person in line hands me their driver’s license. I scan it with a device docked with my iPod touch, ask some questions, print a barcoded sticker, and direct them to where they need to go. Are we at the airport? Car rental? Sports venue? None of Read More >
Posted on by 16 CommentsNew Year’s Resolution: Be Ready
We all make resolutions for the New Year, lose weight, read more, learn a new skill. Well this year why not make one of your resolutions to be ready? 2011 was full of devastating emergencies, from the Mississippi River flooding to the more than 343 tornados that tore through the Southeast. Just a few simple steps can Read More >
Posted on by 11 CommentsReal-life Contagion: Part 2
By Tyler M. Sharp, PhD Before we left off in Part 1 I had just gotten on a boat to visit a small atoll in the Marshall Islands affected by the dengue outbreak… A few days earlier we had identified a small cluster of cases on Arno, a small atoll about 30 miles from Majuro. I Read More >
Posted on by 6 CommentsReal-life Contagion: Governments unite to fight dengue outbreak in Marshall Islands
By Tyler M. Sharp, PhD The whole thing was straight out of a movie. An outbreak of dengue fever on a small island chain in the middle of the Pacific. A local government requesting assistance to control the outbreak. In the end, CDC, the US Department of Defense, the World Health Organization (WHO), USAID, local Read More >
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