Learning from Katrina: Tough Lessons in Preparedness and Emergency Response
Handouts
List of case interview participants
Deaths related to Hurricane Floyd in Eastern North Carolina
Resources
Stay Healthy Louisiana, Louisiana Public Health Institute
Agents, Diseases, and Other Threats, CDC Emergency Preparedness and Response
National Weather Service Materials
This information has been developed specifically for use with medical/public health communities. It is intended a basic introduction to uses of hurricane forecasts and follow-up with a NWS meteorologist is highly recommended. The objective is to help medical participants identify/interpret useful NWS hurricane information in empowering decisions and prevent crisis at each stage of hurricane preparedness. If participants need further assistance with interpreting weather information they are welcome to contact me and I will direct them to our research meteorologist, John Gaynor or a Warning Coordination Meteorologist (WCM) in their area. The WCM may also be contacted directly at any of our local Weather Forecast Offices (WFO's) around the country.
- Meaning of Hurricane Forecasts and Understanding Probabilities, National Weather Service ( pdf file, Adobe Acrobat Reader required--free download)
- Interpreting Hurricane Forecasts for the Public Health Sector with Application to Other Severe Storms, National Weather Service
- Hurricane Quiz, National Weather Service
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Public Health Grand Rounds is a collaboration between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health North Carolina Institute for Public Health Updated October 19, 2009 2:26 PM |
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