| Target Audience: Public health environmentalists, sanitarians, public health administrators and personnel, emergency management personnel, state homeland security personnel, emergency response volunteers, animal control staff and public health students.
Course Description: Hurricanes are just one example of a catastrophic event when the public health workforce must be ready to set up, staff, and manage shelters for those displaced by the disaster. Maintaining appropriate environmental health standards is one of the many considerations for those responsible in setting up the shelters. Broadcast faculty will examine the example of two mega shelters set up in Houston in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Issues to be discussed include medical care, food safety, housekeeping and sanitation procedures, infection and outbreak control, pet shelters, and communication and staffing, including the screening and management of volunteers
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