Mar 2024 Offering
This course has been cancelled.
- Course
- MGT 319 - Medical Countermeasures: Point of Dispensing (POD), Planning and Response
- Date & Times
- Mar 27 - 28, 2024 from 8 AM - 4 PM
- Description
This course is a guide for local health officials and their partners to coordinate plans to provide mass distribution of medical countermeasures in response to a large-scale public health incident. This course focuses on planning considerations, recommendation to achieve the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) 48-hour standard for Mass Prophylaxis, and the local community’s Mass Prophylaxis and Point of Dispensing (POD) site preparedness. The course material is applicable to pandemic influenza, bio-terrorism, and other public health emergencies.
- Hours
- 16
- Region
- 4
- Locations
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LSU AgCenter
157 Cherokee Drive
Crowley, LA 70526 - POST Approved
- No
- Target Audiences
- Emergency Management, Emergency Management Director, Emergency Medical Services (EMS), First Responders, Government Administrative, Medical (Hospital), Public Health, and Volunteer Organizations
- Availability
- Open To The Public
- Prerequisites
- None Set
- Cancelled On
- Apr 4, 2024