TY - JOUR
T1 - Public Health Resilience Checklist for High-Consequence Infectious Diseases - Informed by the Domestic Ebola Response in the United States
AU - Sell, Tara Kirk
AU - Shearer, Matthew P.
AU - Meyer, Diane
AU - Chandler, Hannah
AU - Schoch-Spana, Monica
AU - Thomas, Erin
AU - Rose, Dale A.
AU - Carbone, Eric G.
AU - Toner, Eric
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) through research contract 200-2015-M-87759. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.
PY - 2018/11/1
Y1 - 2018/11/1
N2 - Context: The experiences of communities that responded to confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease in the United States provide a rare opportunity for collective learning to improve resilience to future high-consequence infectious disease events. Design: Key informant interviews (n = 73) were conducted between February and November 2016 with individuals who participated in Ebola virus disease planning or response in Atlanta, Georgia; Dallas, Texas; New York, New York; or Omaha, Nebraska; or had direct knowledge of response activities. Participants represented health care; local, state, and federal public health; law; local and state emergency management; academia; local and national media; individuals affected by the response; and local and state governments. Two focus groups were then conducted in New York and Dallas, and study results were vetted with an expert advisory group. Results: Participants focused on a number of important areas to improve public health resilience to high-consequence infectious disease events, including governance and leadership, communication and public trust, quarantine and the law, monitoring programs, environmental decontamination, and waste management. Conclusions: Findings provided the basis for an evidence-informed checklist outlining specific actions for public health authorities to take to strengthen public health resilience to future high-consequence infectious disease events.
AB - Context: The experiences of communities that responded to confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease in the United States provide a rare opportunity for collective learning to improve resilience to future high-consequence infectious disease events. Design: Key informant interviews (n = 73) were conducted between February and November 2016 with individuals who participated in Ebola virus disease planning or response in Atlanta, Georgia; Dallas, Texas; New York, New York; or Omaha, Nebraska; or had direct knowledge of response activities. Participants represented health care; local, state, and federal public health; law; local and state emergency management; academia; local and national media; individuals affected by the response; and local and state governments. Two focus groups were then conducted in New York and Dallas, and study results were vetted with an expert advisory group. Results: Participants focused on a number of important areas to improve public health resilience to high-consequence infectious disease events, including governance and leadership, communication and public trust, quarantine and the law, monitoring programs, environmental decontamination, and waste management. Conclusions: Findings provided the basis for an evidence-informed checklist outlining specific actions for public health authorities to take to strengthen public health resilience to future high-consequence infectious disease events.
KW - Ebola
KW - infectious disease
KW - resilience
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U2 - 10.1097/PHH.0000000000000787
DO - 10.1097/PHH.0000000000000787
M3 - Article
C2 - 29595573
AN - SCOPUS:85054074462
SN - 1078-4659
VL - 24
SP - 510
EP - 518
JO - Journal of Public Health Management and Practice
JF - Journal of Public Health Management and Practice
IS - 6
ER -