Public Health Departments play a key role in the preparation, detection, and response to a pandemic. Although grant funding gives health departments ample resources to prepare for a pandemic event, many departments do not have adequate capabilities in place. Avalution provides the expertise to help deliver results quickly.
Avalution provides the following services to Public Health Departments:
Emergency Planning Staff (Temporary/Contract/Full Time)
Avalution can provide the resources you need to successfully develop and test continuity plans. We offer flexible options to provide expert staff to support or manage the emergency planning team. Every professional we provide benefits from our extensive experience in building and deploying practical continuity plans.
Pandemic Response Planning
Public Health Departments must be able to react by re-allocating their resources from daily operations to dealing with the pandemic situation at hand. Health departments need to meet the requirements set forth by the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza and comply with the plans created by state agencies. Frequently, public health response plans get divided up into several of the following categories:
- Incident command structure
- Mass vaccination plan
- Mass antiviral plan
- Mortuary services surge plan
While these plans are all relevant and important, frequently, the big picture for the organization can get lost. Avalution can take these various plans and build a comprehensive response framework to organize decision making, communications, and event escalation. Our planning experience with Public health groups will allow us to quickly add value to your organization and deliver compelling, action oriented plans.
Internal Training & Exercising
Public Health Department employees, in order to sufficiently support a pandemic response, must be knowledgeable about the departments’ plans and about the threat of a pandemic. Avalution can organize workshop training sessions, online training, and facilitate exercises to build public officials’ knowledge of this threat. During a pandemic, the proper personnel must have plans to assess risks to the public and navigate through critical events, and Avalution is prepared to provide its expertise to assist you in your efforts.
External Training
Public Health Departments, which are ultimately responsible for the health and safety of the local community, can organize training sessions designed to help local businesses with pandemic planning. Avalution can provide its knowledge and experience to host workshops in the community, as well as other unique activities to assist public and private companies prepare for this threat.