Public Health Resilience Checklist for High Consequence Infectious Diseases – Informed by the Domestic Ebola Response in the United States

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• Alternative Title:
  J Public Health Manag Pract
• Personal Author:
  Sell, Tara Kirk ; Shearer, Matthew P. ; Meyer, Diane ; Schoch-Spana, Monica ; Thomas, Erin ; Rose, Dale A. ; Carbone, Eric G. ; Toner, Eric
• Description:
  Objectives.
  
  To gather lessons from the communities that responded to confirmed cases of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the United States in order to inform recommendations to improve resilience to future High Consequence Infectious Disease (HCID) events.
  
  Methods.
  
  Key informant interviews (n=73) were conducted between February and November 2016 with individuals who participated in EVD planning or response in Atlanta, Georgia; Dallas, Texas; New York, New York; or Omaha, Nebraska. Participants represented healthcare; local, state, and federal public health; law; local and state emergency management; academia; local and national media; and local and state government. Two focus groups were then conducted in New York and Dallas, and study results were vetted with an expert advisory group. Accounts from the domestic Ebola response and recommendations for future events were used to develop an evidence-informed checklist that outlines specific actions for public health authorities.
  
  Results.
  
  Participants focused on a number of important areas to improve public health resilience to HCID events, including governance and leadership, communication and public trust, quarantine and the law, monitoring programs, environmental decontamination, and waste management.
  
  Conclusions.
  
  The direct experiences of select jurisdictions recently engaged in EVD response provided a rare opportunity for collective learning and the development of a concrete list of actions with which to strengthen of public health resilience to future HCID events.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Disaster Planning Disease Outbreaks Ebolavirus Focus Groups Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola Humans Interviews As Topic Public Health Quarantine
• Source:
  J Public Health Manag Pract. 24(6):510-518
• Pubmed ID:
  29595573
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC8666127
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Place as Subject:
  Georgia ; Nebraska ; New York ; Texas
• Volume:
  24
• Issue:
  6
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:f2ff1a2765f0a68989526c544afdbe2a2729adc59602089bfd680bd52797eede
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/112545/cdc_112545_DS1.pdf
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