DMAN 7350.
Basic Disaster Management for Public Health Professionals.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: DISASTER MGMT I.
Not open to students with credit in PHRM(HPAM) 7350 or HPAM 7360.
Basic disaster relief training for health care professionals,
and graduate students. First responders training and mock
simulations for weapons of destruction events, including case
studies, tabletop exercises, and mass casualty medical response.
Offered fall semester every year.
DMAN 7351.
Advanced Emergency/Disaster Management for Health Professionals.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: DISASTER MANAGEMENT.
Not open to students with credit in HPAM 7351.
Prerequisite: PHRM 5350 or permission of department.
Theory and practice needed to perform as a Public Health
Professional in emergencies including hands-on experience with
Tabletop and actual on-site Full Scale Exercises; JCAHO
standards for emergency management; National Incident Management
System (NIMS) and Incident Command System (ICS), AMA Advanced
Disaster Life Support certification.
Offered spring semester every year.
DMAN 7353.
Disaster Management in the Middle East.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: DISASTER MGMT III.
Disaster relief training for healthcare professionals and
students, as performed in Israel and other Middle Eastern
nations with their unique mass casualty experience in civilian
populations, with applications to the American system. First
responder and medical casualty training, including case
studies, eyewitness reports from medical personnel, and mass
casualty response.
Offered fall semester every year.
DMAN 8350.
Public Health Consequences of Disasters.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: DISASTER CONSEQUENC.
Not open to students with credit in HPAM 8350.
Historical events/case studies for public health emergencies;
disaster disease surveillance and epidemiology; managing
environmental health aspects of disasters; public health risk in
disasters; key laws guiding public health emergency response;
mental health consequences, mass prophylaxis; mass casualty
issues including burn care and isolation.
Offered spring semester every year.
DMAN 8351.
Information for Management of Emergencies and Disasters.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: DISASTER INFO.
Not open to students with credit in HPAM 8351.
Discussion of the various types of data and information and
their collection for effective disaster mitigation, planning,
response and recovery. Several national and international case
studies will be analyzed as well as discussion of lessons
learned.
Offered fall semester every year.