- Authored heat wave plan that halved heat-adjusted mortality (Milwaukee)
- Incident commander or command/general staff for H1N1 pandemic (Wisconsin); monkeypox and E. coli O157:H7 outbreaks, anthrax and food terrorism hoaxes, 9/11, Y2K (Milwaukee County); COVID-19 pandemic (Denver, CO)
- Tsunami medical relief with Operation Combined Assistance in Banda Aceh, Indonesia (USN/PHS/Project Hope)
- Designer/controller/evaluator of multi-jurisdiction internet-assisted pandemic exercises (Chicago area/Argonne National Lab)
- Curriculum design/faculty for six-nation Asian public health emergency training 2006 (Singapore/US Dept. Of State)
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Hi Seth,
As a pandemic preparedness coordinator and now an emergency preparedness coordinator for our small two county health dept., I would be most interested in the pandemic exercise “lessons learned”. We function as a region here in the UP of Michigan as we are all small jurisdictions. Interagency coordination is key for us.
Carol, like most preparedness exercises, the major lessons for the involved agencies are summarized in After-Action Reports. Although I participated in the writing of these (for both ILLWIND and FLUNAMI exercises in 2006 and 7), they are actually the property of the Chicago Health Department. I do not know that they were publicly released. However, some artifacts related to the execution of the FLUNAMI exercise are available here and here (thanks, Google!). Argonne National Laboratory also released a public document on lessons learned from conducting these multi-jurisdictional exercises in real time using distance Internet communications. This report IS available for your reading pleasure at http://www.ipd.anl.gov/anlpubs/2008/02/60983.pdf .
I believe after participating in SE Wisconsin’s multi-jurisdictional responses to E.coli O157:H7 and monkeypox outbreaks, you could author a pretty good guide to inter-jurisdictional response management already! All the best!