The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Association of Public Health Laboratories co-sponsor the Laboratory Efficiencies Initiative (LEI), which is working to ensure a sustainable public health laboratory system. The group considers interstate test service sharing to be one of the most promising strategies for improving efficiency at public health laboratories. To assist […]
This article identifies that responding to an emergency requires societal coalescence and cohesion to optimize effectiveness. Local, state, territorial, tribal, federal and international jurisdictional levels have to cooperate with each other in ways that are distinct from the norm in order to maximize resource utilization and minimize response time. Available online: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com
The project charter outlines the project objectives, assumptions, scope, milestones, and potential impacts. It also allows participants to identify the project coordinator and team members and briefly describes their roles and responsibilities.
This presentation provides an overview of the Northwoods Shared Services Project in Wisconsin, a member of the Center’s Shared Services Learning Community, and includes its impetus and the history of collaboration in the region. It also explores resources and expectations for the project, project objectives, process deliverables, organization and approach, accomplishments, and evaluation.
This is a Prezi presentation that overviews the Northwoods Shared Services Project in Wisconsin, including who the participants were, what services were already being shared before the project began, why the project was desirable, the resources needed and expected outcomes, the implementation path, lessons learned through implementation, plans for evaluation, and final goals of the […]
The document is a survey to assess how well partners in the Emergency Preparedness North collaboration think that the collaboration is doing. It was developed by the Northwoods Shared Services Project in Wisconsin, a member of the Center’s Shared Services Learning Community.
This article describes the formation of Region 4b, an emergency preparedness region in Massachusetts, and how the region came together to work on emergency preparedness issues. It also examines the organizational, financial, and planning challenges associated with organizing these towns as a unified entity. Available online: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2430641/
Observers have identified a strong need for states and tribes to coordinate responses to public health emergencies on Indian lands. This paper explores the need for such collaboration and the difficulties such cross-jurisdictional relationships face. Available online.
This poster presentation from the from the California Tribal Epidemiology Center at the California Rural Indian Health Board examined the types of emergencies relevant to tribal communities in California and the prevalence of cross-jurisdictional sharing (CJS) for emergency management (i.e., preparedness, mitigation, response, recovery) between California tribal and county governments. This study also explored whether […]
This ongoing study will examine cross-jurisdictional sharing (CJS) between tribal and county governments in emergency preparedness capacity building and response. Investigators from the California Rural Indian Health Board, Inc., and partners from California Conference of Local Health Officers, Inter-Tribal Long Term Recovery Foundation, California Department of Health Care Services, and Indian Health Program of the […]