TY - JOUR
T1 - The practice community meets the ivory tower
T2 - A health department/academic partnership to improve Public Health Preparedness
AU - Covich, Judith R.
AU - Parker, Cindy L.
AU - White, Vanessa A.
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - When the local health department of Montgomery County, Maryland, was chosen to participate in Project Public Health Ready and was charged with the daunting task of providing a comprehensive emergency preparedness plan, training all 600 employees to carry out that plan, and conducting exercises to demonstrate the department's competency, it realized it couldn't do it alone. The department sought the assistance of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The first challenge for these unlikely partners, one a bastion of research and the other firmly immersed in the practice world of public health, was to figure out how to work together. This article describes the development of their partnership; outlines the preparedness plan, training, and exercises that resulted from the partnership; summarizes the challenges and benefits for each entity; and enumerates lessons learned that could be useful to other public health entities planning to undertake similar partnerships.
AB - When the local health department of Montgomery County, Maryland, was chosen to participate in Project Public Health Ready and was charged with the daunting task of providing a comprehensive emergency preparedness plan, training all 600 employees to carry out that plan, and conducting exercises to demonstrate the department's competency, it realized it couldn't do it alone. The department sought the assistance of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The first challenge for these unlikely partners, one a bastion of research and the other firmly immersed in the practice world of public health, was to figure out how to work together. This article describes the development of their partnership; outlines the preparedness plan, training, and exercises that resulted from the partnership; summarizes the challenges and benefits for each entity; and enumerates lessons learned that could be useful to other public health entities planning to undertake similar partnerships.
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U2 - 10.1177/00333549051200s116
DO - 10.1177/00333549051200s116
M3 - Article
C2 - 16025712
AN - SCOPUS:22844452341
SN - 0033-3549
VL - 120
SP - 84
EP - 90
JO - Public health reports
JF - Public health reports
IS - SUPLL. 1
ER -