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Training Health Workers About Bioterrorism
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Business New Haven
11/11/2002
By: BNH
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NEW HAVEN - Yale and a number other Connecticut institutions have formed a partnership to develop a statewide plan to train public health and medical workers about bioterrorism and emergency preparedness.
The group, to be known as the Connecticut Partnership for Public Health Workforce Development, was awarded a $320,000 first-year contract by the state's Department of Public Health (DPH). The state received $12.5 million of $1 billion in funding from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention's Public Health Preparedness and Response to Bioterrorism Cooperative Agreement.
Target date for completion of the master training plan is March. Most of the actual training will take place after that date and will include a mix of traditional courses, workshops, lectures, symposiums, satellite broadcasts and Web-based learning modules. Practical training will be emphasized.
Yale formed the Connecticut partnership two years ago as part of a larger initiative, the New England Alliance for Public Health Workforce Development. The alliance includes the schools of public health at Harvard, the University of Massachusetts/Amherst, Boston University and the master's in public health program at Tufts University.
The Connecticut partnership includes Area Health Education Centers; the Connecticut Association of Directors of Health; DPH; the Connecticut Environmental Health Association; the Connecticut Public Health Association; the Connecticut Public Health Nursing Association; the Southern Connecticut State University Public Health Program; and the University of Connecticut Health Center Graduate Program in Public Health.
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