UNC center receives grant for public health preparedness
October 20, 2005 | |
The N.C. Center for Public Health Preparedness will receive more than $1 million in renewed funding from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this year.Formed in 2000, the center is part of the UNC School of Public Health’s Institute for Public Health and works to help public health professionals develop skills to prepare for and respond to terrorism and other emerging public health threats.
The center has created a Web site with more than 100 free online training courses on topics such as surveillance, public health law and forensic epidemiology. The center also publishes the FOCUS on Field Epidemiology bimonthly online periodical, coordinates the Online Certificate Program in Field Epidemiology, provides the www.PublicHealthPreparedness.org online learning management system, supplies assistance and training to state and local epidemiology teams, and coordinates Team EpiAid, in which students volunteer assistance to health departments statewide when public health issues arise. More information is available at www.sph.unc.edu/nccphp. # # # For further information please contact Ramona DuBose, Director of Communications for the UNC School of Public Health, by phone at 919-966-7467 or by e-mail at ramona_dubose@unc.edu. |