Strategic Planning Work Groups

Over 50 staff from Georgia DPH, GHA and regional health care coalitions are active members of the Georgia Hurricane Response Hub work groups. Each group is charged with developing strategic work plans in one of the following areas: disaster epidemiology, incident management, resilience, strategic communications, and surge management.

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Disaster Epidemiology Work Group

This group will focus on projects related to epidemiology training and tabletop exercise guidance; post-event needs assessment; exposure response and investigation; and integration of data sources into dashboard for disaster response.

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Incident Management Work Group

This group will focus on projects related to the management of hurricane incidents, including the development of statewide capabilities and capacities tools and maps, as well as trainings about patient handoff and receiving processes, and the Incident Management Team support processes.

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Reslience Work Group

This group will focus on projects related to toolkits for shelters and strike team training.

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Strategic Communications Work Group

This group will focus on projects related to crisis and emergency risk communications and web-based emergency operations centers.

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Surge Management Work Group

This group will focus on projects related to shelter operations, patient tracking and evacuation protocol.

Funding for this project has been provided to the National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI) through a Cooperative Agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC – NU1ROT000004-01-00). NNPHI is collaborating with Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University and the CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health on this project.