Bioterrorism Information and Resources

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The Disaster Emergency Medicine Readiness Training (DEMRT) Center of the University of Illinois College of Dentistry compiled the following list of emergency preparedness and continuing education resources for dentists and other health professionals. Information found at these sights is intended to equip dentists for a variety of situations, ranging from the identification and reporting of new diseases found chairside to the standard operating procedures employed during large-scale emergency situations.

Some of the links below serve to connect dentists to continuing education opportunities centered on emergency preparedness and bioterrorism, as well as volunteer opportunities for those interested in participating in emergency response teams.

Dentists and their staffs are encouraged to browse these links at their leisure, and post them in a conspicuous place of the office. DEMRT director Dr. Michael Colvard further recommends that dentists acquire a copy of the Control of Communicable Disease Manual (18th Ed.), available from the American Public Health Association Web site, http://www.apha.org.

Illinois resources

Illinois Public Health Preparedness Center at the University of Illinois-Chicago
www.uic.edu/sph/prepare

UIC’s Disaster Emergency Medicine Readiness Training Center (DEMRT)
www.demrt.org

Illinois Dental Hygienists Association
www.idha.net

Illinois State Dental Society
www.isds.org

Illinois Department of Public Health’s Emergency Preparedness Division
www.idph.state.il.us/Bioterrorism/default.htm

UIC’s Illinois Public Health Preparedness Center (free online courses)
www.uic.edu/sph/prepare

Illinois Medical Emergency Response Team
www.imert.org

Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council
www.mchc.org

Illinois Poison Center’s Bioterrorism Recognition, Treatment and Reporting Protocols
www.mchc.org/ipc/pepid/main.aspx

National resources

CDC’s Emergency Preparedness and Response
www.bt.cdc.gov

National Center for Environmental Health Emergency and Terrorism Preparedness for Environmental Health Practitioners
www.cdc.gov/nceh/ehs/etp/default.htm

CDC’s Public Training Network
www.phppo.cdc.gov/phtn/default.asp

National Disaster Medical System, from the Department of Homeland Security
www.oep.dhhs.gov/federal_sites.html

Emergency Preparedness for Business and the Public, from the Department of Homeland Security
www.ready.gov

The National Strategy For Homeland Security (downloadable PDF), from the Office of Homeland Security
www.whitehouse.gov/homeland/book

Office for Domestic Preparedness, Department of Homeland Security
www.ojp.usdoj.gov/odp/training.htm

Department of Homeland Security, for the Public
www.dhs.gov/dhspublic

Online Courses from the Federal Emergency Management Agency
www.training.fema.gov

Online Description of Courses from National Disaster Life Support
www.bdls.com

Emergency Preparedness, from the Red Cross and Centers for Disease Control
www.redcross.org/preparedness/cdc_english/CDC.asp

List of Government Databases in Health
http://library.stmarytx.edu/acadlib/doc/electronic/dbhealth.htm

Biodefense Briefings from the New York Academy of Sciences
www.nyas.org/biodef/overview.asp

Toxicology Tutorials from the National Library of Medicine
http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/Tox/ToxTutor.html

National Institutes of Health Library
http://nihlibrary.nih.gov

Resource Guide for Public Health Preparedness from the New York Academy of Sciences
www.phpreparedness.info

Free Online Continuing Education Courses
www.bioterrorism.slu.edu
www.ualbanycphp.org
www.asph.org

Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy from the University of Minnesota
www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap

Disaster Technical Assistance Center from the Department of Health and Human Services
www.mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/dtac

Association of Schools for Public Health
www.asph.org