CSTE Disaster Epi Resource Tool

ACE "chapter" outline

Chemical release assessments (ACE) – Svetlana Smorodinsky, Jason Wilken, Mary Anne Duncan, Erica Thomasson, other partners?

  • ACE overview - Mary Anne
    • Brief introduction
    • Scalable and modular tool for large-scale chemical release incidents
    • Can use variety of epidemiological sampling techniques (vs CASPER which is a technique, not a tool)
    • Refer to the website, and other existing ACE overview documents

  • ACE application in an incident response - Mary Anne, Jason, Svetlana, Erica
    • How to start a project, what may be needed?
    • Timeline - response phase? recovery phase?
    • Integration within ICS???
    • Anything else?

  • ACE examples and lessons learned from state perspectives
    • Chlorine release at metal scrap facility, CA - Svetlana, Jason
      • Lessons learned: ??? product - industry alert
    • Elk River spill, WV - Erica
      • Lessons learned: ???
    • Vinyl Chloride, NJ - Jason, Mary Anne
      • Lessons learned: ???

  • Final thoughts

On 1.19.17 call, request was to mirror shelter surveillance write up structure

Purpose of shelter surveillance




Impact of conducting shelter surveillance




Partnerships




Applications of Shelter Surveillance in Disasters




Summary