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Journal of Emergency Management ®

Webinar Series 

Mental Health in Emergency Management

Surveying mental health stressors of emergency management professionals:

Factors in recruiting and retaining emergency managers

in an era of disasters and pandemics

 

 November 1, 2023

1:00 PM Eastern Time (EST)

 

 

Abstract: This 60-minute webinar will address the current state of mental wellness in the emergency management field. Emergency managers (EM) are responsible for managing crises and disasters, and while their work is essential, it can be stressful and impact their mental health and effectiveness as emergency managers. This study aimed to examine the mental health of professional emergency managers and factors associated with their intent to leave the field before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

The webinar will present the latest findings from the recent Journal of Emergency Management Stressors and Mental Health Survey and published paper. The webinar will address general and specific stressors and challenges in our profession. The webinar will explore potential changes in how EMs and related fields manage mental health across their disciplines. The webinar will also address organizational culture and other significant factors that affect the recruitment and retention of emergency managers across the field.

 

Questions will be taken. Please email your concise question and contact information to: jem@pnpco.com We will try to cover as many questions as possible and get input from our panelists.

 

Note: A PDF of the full paper will be sent to all registered attendees during the webinar.

 

Keywords: emergency managers, COVID-19, pandemic, disasters, mental health, survey, stressors, professional development, secondary traumatic stress, organizational culture, recruitment, retention

 

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Presenters:

Chris E. Stout, PsyD

Dr. Stout is a clinical psychologist and the Founding Director of the Center for Global Initiatives. He has held academic appointments at the College of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and was an Invited Faculty at the Annual Meetings of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He has also served as a Non-Government Organization (NGO) Special Representative to the United Nations, is a Fellow in the American Psychological Association, past-President of the Illinois Psychological Association, and a Distinguished Practitioner in the National Academies of Practice. He is the Chief Clinical Officer of Prevail Health, Clinical Advisor at HighTop Health, and serves as a Division Staff Officer for the Auxiliary Branch of the US Coast Guard where he holds a number of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Incident Command and National Incident Management qualifications. 

Andre Pennardt, MD

FEMA Mission Support Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Andre (Andy) Pennardt is FEMA’s Chief Medical Officer (CMO). (Invited) In addition to serving as CMO, he serves as Chief of FEMA’s Medical Branch overseeing the work of contact tracers, epidemiologists, nurses and licensed clinicians.

 

Dr. Pennardt is board certified in emergency medicine and emergency medical services. He earned his Doctor of Medicine (MD) from the State University of New York at Syracuse, a Master of Science (MS) in fire and emergency sciences/emergency management from the University of Florida, and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in biology/biotechnology from the University of Rochester. He completed a fellowship in Austere and Wilderness Medicine, specializing in providing lifesaving services in remote and extreme environments.

 

Dr. Pennardt retired as a Colonel from the United States Army after 23 years of active duty during which he was assigned to a variety of special missions, weapons of mass destruction counterproliferation, and other special operations units. He deployed overseas on numerous sensitive, high-risk missions and served over 3 years on the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq. His assignments included Medical Squadron Commander for the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-DELTA, Chief Medical Officer for the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Arabian Peninsula, Command Surgeon for Special Operations Command-SOUTH, and Deputy Command Surgeon for Joint Special Operations Command. While on active duty, he also participated in hurricane relief missions and provided humanitarian assistance in the Kurdish region of Iraq.

Sonny S. Patel, MPH, MPhil

Sonny S. Patel, MPH, MPhil, is an award-winning researcher and a former National Institutes of Health Fogarty Global Health Scholar. He is a Presidential Fellow at the Transcultural Conflict and Violence Initiative at Georgia State University and a Visiting Scientist at Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. He is also a Non-Resident Fellow at Joint Special Operations University.

 

Patel is a Top Voice on LinkedIn, and he is the author of the book, Community Resilience When Disaster Strikes: Security and Community Health in UK Flood Zones, published by Springer Nature. He has contributed to the Emerald Publishing book, COVID-19, Frontline Responders and Mental Health: A Playbook for Delivering Resilient Public Health Systems Post-Pandemic, and the Routledge published textbook, Service-Learning for Disaster Resilience: Partnerships for Social Good. Recently, Patel was named a top 40 under 40 Public Health Catalyst by the Boston Congress of Public Health, and he was picked by LinkedIn as 1 of 120 experts for their US program on Technology and Innovation. He won the Emerald Publishing Literati Award in 2021 for Outstanding Research Paper by the Journal of Disaster Prevention and Management.

Kim Guevara, MA

Kim Guevara is the Founder and CEO of Mozaik Solutions. She has provided services to all levels of government, the US military, and in the private and non-profit sectors. Ms. Guevara has more than 25 years’ experience in crisis and emergency management/homeland security, development, and stakeholder engagement. Her executive experience includes leadership for change management/business transformation initiatives to comply with local, state, federal and Department of Defense regulations, and to improve employee morale, talent recruitment, and retention. She also has significant international experience in telemedicine and humanitarian development and has led and supported initiatives and efforts in Southwest Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean among others to include projects in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Honduras, Antigua and Barbuda, Tristan da Cunha, and Kenya. Her combined experiences led her to co-create Crisis Athlete™. Crisis Athlete leverages a unique blend of neuroscience, emotional intelligence, performance coaching, sports and industrial/organizational psychology, and other disciplines to foster resilience and peak performance.

T. Lucas Hollar, PhD

Dr. T. Lucas Hollar is an Associate Professor within Nova Southeastern University’s Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine, teaching health policy at the graduate and undergraduate levels. He has evaluated federally funded initiatives addressing COVID-19 health literacy, hazardous materials trainings for maritime workers, interprofessional primary care and public health, among others. He has performed foundation and corporation-funded research and evaluation in such areas as zoning and urban planning, cancer screening and education for underserved women, and childhood obesity interventions in public schools. His current research focuses on policy, systems, and environmental change to improve population health; the political determinants of health; and social vulnerability. Dr. Hollar’s work has been published in the American Journal of Public Health, the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, and the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, to list a few. He has served as Chairperson of the Health Advisory Board for Broward County, Humana Bold Goal Broward initiative. He currently serves as a board member for the L.A. Lee YMCA and The Fruitful Field in Broward County, FL. 

Timothy B. Erickson, MD

Dr. Timothy B. Erickson is an Harvard Humanitarian Initiative Core Faculty member with areas of expertise in humanitarian health, environmental toxicology, crisis in climate change, wastewater epidemiology, chemical/biological terrorism, and acute injuries in global conflict and disaster settings. He has active humanitarian health projects in conflict regions of Ukraine and Syria. Dr. Erickson is an Emergency Medicine Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts where he serves as the Vice Chair for Academic Affairs and the Division Chief of Medical Toxicology in the Mass General Brigham Department of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Webinar Overview

 

Brief overview of the goals and design of the survey. 

  • Introduction, the need for the survey, survey design and goals
  • Hypothesis that mental health may be an issue facing emergency managers
  • Hypothesis that other factors may influence mental health and EM retention
  • Direct factors leading to emergency managers leaving the field

 

 

Presentation of the findings from our survey. 

  • Unique stressors in emergency management as a profession
  • Unique stressors to emergency managers due to the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Unique stressors due to concurrent disasters and pandemic response
  • Factors leading to emergency managers leaving the field
  • Direct actionable changes that can be made to retain emergency managers
  • Impact of organizational culture on retention of emergency managers
  • Impact of additional work-environment related stressors on retention of EMs
  • Additional statistics collected from the survey and their impacts on EMs

 

Discussion from the panelists.

 

Questions from the audience. 

  • Please send specific concised questions to jem@pnpco.com and include your full name, title, question and contact details in case additional communication is needed.

 

(Speakers and topics subject to change without notice)

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Webinar - Mariner Mental Health During COVID-19 and Beyond
 
Focus on Mental Health During COVID-19
 
Journal of Emergency Management ®
 
Webinar Series
 
Mariner Mental Health During COVID-19
and Beyond
 
.....U.S. Mariners worked through the COVID-19 pandemic, providing essential services and goods. U.S. Mariners hold stressful jobs—spending long periods of time away from home often with disrupted communication while working long hours at sea. The COVID-19 pandemic has made it more challenging for U.S. Mariners to come ashore and has added additional stressors to their work and personal lives. There are 95,471 +/- miles of U.S. coastline, numerous rivers, and other seaways, and 90%+ of the population is served by this critical field!
 
Please forward this invitation to your colleagues who may be involved in the maritime
or marine emergency management professions.
 
 
 
Register
 
Abstract
.....The COVID-19 pandemic has further emphasized the impact work has on mental health, particularly for essential workers. U.S. Mariners are an essential occupation who have continued sailing throughout the pandemic, and many aspects of their work could make them prone to adverse mental health outcomes including spending long periods at sea with limited access to shore leave, limited ability to communicate with home, and often long and physical work hours. Between January and July 2021, an online survey developed in collaboration with U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was deployed to U.S. Mariners to assess their mental health, barriers to accessing mental health care, concerns, worries, and experiences when sailing during the pandemic, job satisfaction, and safety climate. The survey was completed by n=1,384 U.S. Coast Guard-credentialed mariners who had sailed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The prevalence of likely depression and anxiety were 20.7% and 22.7%, respectively, among survey respondents; 8.9% of respondents had feelings of suicidal ideation. Worse mental health outcomes were seen in mariners who identified as female and in younger mariners. Results from this study will help to prioritize interventions to minimize the mental health impacts of the pandemic in this population and make evidence-based recommendations to improve the mental health of mariners going forward.
 
Register
 
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Learning Objectives
  1. Describe how work can impact mental health.
  2. Describe how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the work of mariners.
  3. Summarize factors that may have contributed to adverse mental health of mariners during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  4. Suggest interventions to improve the mental health of mariners during a public health emergency and beyond.
 
(Note: A recording will be made but you need to be registered to get notice when the recording is available.)
 
Presenter:
 
 
Marissa Baker, PhD
 
Dr. Marissa Baker is an Assistant Professor in the University of Washington (UW) Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences (DEOHS). She also serves as program director of the industrial hygiene training program. She is an affiliate faculty in the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies at UW.
 
Dr. Baker's current research mostly centers on occupational experiences of vulnerable or under-represented groups. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she has been working closely with a variety of worker organizations, government, and industry partners to characterize physical and mental health outcomes experienced by workers due to the pandemic. Dr. Baker also develops and evaluates occupational interventions to protect worker health and well-being and studies the experiences of women in the workplace.
 
Trained as an industrial hygienist, Dr. Baker has expertise in workplace exposure assessment, using techniques such as air sampling, biomonitoring, exposure modeling, and surveys. In 2021, Baker was appointed by the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to the Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals.
 
Moderator:
 
 
Sonny S. Patel, MPH, MPhil
 
Sonny S. Patel, MPH, MPhil, is a Presidential Fellow at Georgia State University and a Visiting Scientist at Harvard University. Patel is a Public Health Executive who serves on advisory committees and board of directors of organizations creating positive social and community impact. Patel is a former National Institutes of Health Fogarty Global Health Scholar and has developed protocols, programs, and training to build capacity and knowledge in communities worldwide - from subject matters in Public Health, Community Health, and Mental Health to specialized topics in Emergency Management, Community Resilience, and Disaster Risk Reduction. Patel was recently recognized as a top 40 under 40 Public Health Catalyst by the Boston Congress of Public Health and named by USAID in India as one of the top DevDistruptors in Mental Health.
 
 
Funding for this training/webinar has been provided by The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under award number U45ES019350, in association with Nova Southeastern University.
 
Interested in creating a webinar series?
With over 700 peer-review published papers and access to thought leaders across the globe, we can create webinars on virtually any topic to support your education or marketing needs. Please contact us at jem@pnpco.com for details.
 

 

Previously Recorded Live Webinars
 
 

Webinar - Mental Health in Emergency Management and Public Health post COVID-19

 
 
Care for your team. Care for yourself. Join us!
 
Journal of Emergency Management ®
 
Webinar Series
 
Mental Health in Emergency Management
and Public Health post COVID-19
 
Has the mental health situation for emergency management
and public health professionals improved
as the pandemic subsides?
 
 
 June 8th, 2022
 
 
Abstract
.....This webinar will provide an update on the current state of mental health across the landscape including the emergency management and public health professions. As the pandemic subsides, are the mental health effects diminishing in these critical work forces or is the damage going untreated?
Details
.....It has been about a year since major efforts were initiated to gauge the mental health of professionals in the field.* Given the focus to reduce the mental health stigma, improve mental health hygiene, reduce stressors and provide relevant resources, has the actual mental health improved?
 
.....New data from the recent Journal of Emergency Management Stressors and Mental Health Survey will be woven into the panel discussion. Our panelists will add their expertise to illuminate the findings from that survey. A round-robin discussion will bring forward methods to survey populations, emergency management, public health, and local responders for mental health issues as well as techniques to address concerns found.
 
.....Join us as we discuss this important issue and share the latest findings acquired about the COVID-19 impact on our mental health.
 
Register
 
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Discussion Points
  • What is the state of mental health among emergency management and public health professionals?
 
  • Has the mental health situation for public health and emergency management professionals improved since the COVID-19 pandemic started or even the past year?
 
  • What are the constant pitfalls and maladaptive vices happening? Are these types of coping behaviors increasing in prevalence due to the COVID-19 impact?
 
  • What are ways or tools to better deal with critical stress and anxiety? What can we do for ourselves? And for our teams? For our families?
 
  • We will also be sharing initial findings from the recent Journal of Emergency ManagementStressors and Mental Health Survey where it applies to our discussion.
 
  • Question and Answer from the audience.
 
*For example, the Journal of Emergency Management completed the Stressors and Mental Health Survey and has published two special issues and several webinars on this critical topic.
 
(Note: A recording will be made but you need to be registered to get notice when the recording is available.)
 
Moderator:
 
 
Sonny S. Patel, MPH, MPhil
 
Sonny S. Patel, MPH, MPhil, is a Presidential Fellow at Georgia State University and a Visiting Scientist at Harvard University. Patel is a Public Health Executive who serves on advisory committees and board of directors of organizations creating positive social and community impact. Patel is a former National Institutes of Health Fogarty Global Health Scholar and has developed protocols, programs, and training to build capacity and knowledge in communities worldwide - from subject matters in Public Health, Community Health, and Mental Health to specialized topics in Emergency Management, Community Resilience, and Disaster Risk Reduction. Patel was recently recognized as a top 40 under 40 Public Health Catalyst by the Boston Congress of Public Health and named by USAID in India as one of the top DevDistruptors in Mental Health.
 
Presenters:
 
 
Jennifer Horney, PhD, MPH
 
Jennifer Horney, PhD, MPH, is Professor and Founding Director of the Program in Epidemiology and Core Faculty at the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware. Her research focuses on measuring the health impacts of disasters, as well as the linkages between disaster planning and household actions related to preparedness, response, and recovery.
 
Dr. Horney received her PhD and MPH from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where her research focused on the role of social factors in decision making during disasters. She has served on a number of national committees and is currently a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Center for Preparedness and Response, a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Planning Committee on Exploring Best Practices in Integration of Public Health and Human Services Service Delivery and Assessment Following Large Scale Disasters, and a member of the Publications Board of the American Public Health Association. She has led interdisciplinary research projects funded by the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, National Science Foundation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Academies of Sciences, the Department of Homeland Security and other federal, state, and local agencies.
 
Dr. Horney was a member of a team of public health practitioners who responded to Hurricanes Isabel, Charley, Katrina, Wilma, Irene, and Harvey where she conducted rapid assessments of disaster impact on the public health of individuals and communities. She has also provided technical assistance to public health agencies globally around disasters, emerging infectious disease outbreaks, and pandemic influenza planning and response.
 
 
 
Kelsey Merlo, PhD
 
Kelsey Merlo, PhD, is an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist specializing in Occupational Health. Her research examines burnout, emotions, and stress over time in the disaster response workforce. She has been collaborating with the Florida Department of Health for the past 2+ years on addressing burnout and psychological health. As a psychologist, her expertise focuses on the organizational antecedents to burnout and interventions to mitigate its development.
 
 
Aidan Peat, EMT-B, BS
 
Aidan is currently a second-year medical student at Tufts University School of Medicine. His research work focuses on the factors influencing first responders’ mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. This issue hits close to home for him, as he has been a volunteer firefighter and EMT for the last 6 years. Having worked in emergency services throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Aidan has a unique perspective on the challenges healthcare providers have faced.
 
 
Funding for this training/webinar has been provided by The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under award number U45ES019350, in association with Nova Southeastern University.
 
Interested in creating a webinar series?
With over 650 peer-review published papers and access to thought leaders across the globe, we can create webinars on virtually any topic to support your education or marketing needs. Please contact us at jem@pnpco.com for details.
 

 

 
 
Journal of Emergency Management ®
 
Webinar Series
 
Vaccine Hesitancy:
Where do we stand and where do we go from here?
Lessons learned from COVID-19
 
 
 
 
 Abstract:This webinar explores the reasons behind vaccine hesitancy and how decision makers responsible for public health and emergency management can more effectively navigate future public health crises. We examine the lessons learned both domestically and internationally in overcoming vaccine hesitancy. What are the implications of vaccine hesitancy if we are faced with another pandemic that is potentially more lethal? What are the implications for society if governments use emergency powers to mandate compliance?
 
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Once you register, please complete the form located here so we can gauge levels
of vaccinations in your area as well as successes and challenges faced.
 
Learning Objectives:
 
  • Explore the antecedents of vaccine hesitancy from a historical context
and during the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Examine the lessons learned from domestic and international experiences
in overcoming vaccine hesitancy
  • Discuss the ramifications if government uses emergency powers to quash
dissent, and mandate vaccines
 
(Note: A recording will be made but you need to be registered to get notice when the recording is available.)
 
Presenters:
 
 
Attila J. Hertelendy, PhD, MHA, MS
 
Moderator:
Dr. Attila J. Hertelendy, Director of Research, Disaster Medicine Fellowship, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University, Emergency and Disaster Management Program.
 
Attila Hertelendy, PhD, MHA, MS has over 25 years leadership experience in emergency and disaster management including the development, implementation and evaluation of public health emergency plans. He has worked as a hospital administrator in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Canada and the USA with responsibilities that included the oversight of emergency and disaster management for the Saudi Arabian National Guard Hospitals and the American Hospital in Dubai. Dr. Hertelendy's consultations have involved pandemic planning and response efforts related to H5N1, SARS, MERS and COVID-19. Dr. Hertelendy is the Journal of Emergency Management COVID-19 Special Issue Editor as well as the upcoming special on Emergency Management and Climate Change.
 
 
Derrick Tin, MD
 
Dr. Derrick Tin, Senior Fellow, Disaster Medicine Fellowship, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Associate Professor, Department of Critical Care, University of Melbourne.
 
Dr. Derrick Tin is the Senior Fellow in Disaster Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. He previously led a COVID Rapid Response team and was later involved in the Hotel Quarantine for Returned Travelers Program in Australia. He is the current Co-Chair of the Counter Terrorism Medicine Special Interest Group at WADEM and has a specialist interest in the healthcare impacts of intentional, man-made events.
 
 
 
Rajeev Fernando, MD
 
Fellow, Disaster Medicine Fellowship, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Former Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, Stony Brook University, Southampton Hospital.
 
Dr. Fernando is a Disaster Medicine Fellow at Harvard Medical School and he was the first doctor to visit Wuhan, China to investigate COVID-19. Dr. Fernando has led multiple COVID-19 operations with New York City Health and Hospitals. He has worked numerous FEMA missions as an infectious diseases consultant and was also actively involved with Doctors Without Borders and their Mission Darfur during the Genocide. Dr. Fernando was former Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, Stony Brook University, Southampton Hospital, Southampton, NY. Dr. Fernando is Founder and CEO of CHIRAJ, a global non-profit dedicated to help those most vulnerable regardless of color, sex, religion or gender.https://www.chiraj.org/
 
 
Funding for this training/webinar has been provided by The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under award number U45ES019350, in association with Nova Southeastern University.
 
Interested in creating a webinar series?
With over 650 peer-review published papers and access to thought leaders across the globe, we can create webinars on virtually any topic to support your education or marketing needs. Please contact us at jem@pnpco.com for details.
 
 

 
 
Tales from the front lines: An alarming rise in hospitalizations
related to opioid use disorder in the era of COVID-19
 
 
Recorded June 10, 2021
2:00 PM Eastern Time (EDST)
 
Abstract:This 60-minute webinar will explore an alarming rise in hospitalizations related to opioid use disorder and provide behavioral health resources to assist medical professionals in disaster response. 
 
The COVID-19 pandemic has had harmful effects on the opioid epidemic. While a negative effect was predicted, the presenters will report on this reality in the hospital setting. They have seen a sharp rise in hospitalized patients with opioid use disorder (OUD). their data should encourage ongoing efforts to reduce barriers in accessing medications for treatment, harm reduction interventions and additional education for trainees, primary care providers, and hospitalists alike. In the current climate, these interventions are critical to save the lives of patients with OUD.
 

Link to the recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPnL6BoUR7s

Link to slide handouts: http://wmpllc.org/81643560217_Handouts.pdf

Link to post webinar survey: http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07ei49rmf0kpsic2oz/start

 
Presenters:
 
Noel Ivey, MD
Noel Ivey, MD attended the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and completed her training in Internal Medicine at the Oregon Health & Sciences University Hospital in Portland, Oregon in 2010. From 2010-2017, she worked as a hospitalist at the Charles George Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Asheville, North Carolina. She joined the faculty at Duke University Hospital in 2017. She currently serves as co-director of Project COMET – Caring for patients with Opioid Misuse through Evidence-based Treatment, a quality improvement project seeking to improve care for hospitalized patients with opioid use disorder. Additionally, she is actively involved in clinical trial work for hospitalized patients with COVID-19, and she has a special interest in physician wellness.
 
Dana Clifton, MD
Dana Clifton, MD is an Assistant Professor in Medicine and Pediatrics at Duke University. Dr. Clifton attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for undergraduate studies. She attended Duke University for her medical degree and was inducted into AOA. She is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. Dr. Clifton works clinically as a Medicine/Pediatrics hospitalist, rounding on both General Medicine and Pediatrics services. Dr. Clifton is the Co-Medical Director of Project COMET, a program designed to improve the care of hospitalized patients with opioid use disorder and withdrawal at Duke University Hospital. She is the Associate Medical Director for Quality Improvement within the Duke Hospital Medicine Program. Dr. Clifton is also the Associate Director for Pediatric Undergraduate Medical Education and Pediatric Sub-Internship Director.
 
Shavone Hamilton, LCSW
Shavone Hamilton, LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker with a Master of Social Work from Fordham University and a Bachelor of Social Work from Iona College. She has worked in the behavioral health field since 1999 and has experience in community behavioral health administration.  Shavone joined Duke University Hospital in 2019. Shavone is currently an adult inpatient clinical social worker, where she is a member of the Opioid Use Disorder and Withdrawal consult team, also known as Project COMET (Caring for Patients with Opioid Misuse through Evidence-based Treatment).
 
Richard C. Dart, MD, PhD
Dr. Dart is certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine and the American Board of Medical Toxicology. Since 1992 he has served as the Director of the Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center. He is the Executive Director of Researched Abuse, Diversion, and Addiction-Related Surveillance (RADARS®) System. He has published more than 250 papers and chapters as well as served as editor for the book The 5-Minute Toxicology Consult and the 3rd edition of Medical Toxicology. In 2002 he was recognized with a special
citation from the Commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration. He was the 2004 recipient of the American College of Medical Toxicology Matthew J. Ellenhorn Award for Excellence in Medical Toxicology. He also serves as a Deputy Editor of the medical journal Annals of Emergency Medicine and is past-president of the American Association of Poison Control Centers.
Funding for this training/webinar has been provided by The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under award number U45ES019350, in association with Nova Southeastern University.
 


Resources for Emergency Professionals Who Serve Communities
that are Disproportionately Impacted by COVID-19
The Role of Social Determinants of Health
As They Relate to Emotional Well-Being Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic
How Right Now Campaign
 
 
 Recorded May 19, 2021
1:00 PM (EST)
 
 
Abstract: How Right Now/Que’ Hacer Ahora, a national communication campaign made possible with support from The CDC Foundation in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), offers supportive resources for emergency professionals who serve communities that are disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 as well as for emergency professionals themselves, who may be experiencing stress, grief, and/or loss due to their work. 
 
To support emergency professionals and the communities they serve, this 60-minute webinar will present an overview of this campaign and its resources. To contextualize the campaign, the webinar will begin by providing a brief overview of some recent mental health data from a CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Then, data that were collected that helped inform the development of the How Right Now campaign will be presented. Specifically, the relationship between Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) and COVID-19-related emotional well-being was examined and will be discussed. Finally, tailored resources that emergency professionals can use in their work or for themselves and detailed ideas for implementation and roll out of this program in your neighborhoods will be highlighted.
 
A webinar overview is listed below our speakers.
 

Webinar Recording:

https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/lOUlrcWraI94W0_wv_NpQAakjatLOuUYNj-mESOYiKf87VV3IX8ozSRtX4JnGKTN.-gUYR-ggMgyFypax

Access Passcode: D1%r5YWN

Note: You may be required to register to access this recording.
Link to full webinar details and presenters: https://conta.cc/3uLQBza
 
 
 
Presenters:
 
Rebecca Leeb, PhD
Dr. Rebecca Leeb is a Health Scientist/Epidemiologist in the Division of Population Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention where her work is focused on expanding CDC’s capacity to address emotional well-being at the population-level. Trained as a Developmental Psychologist, Dr. Leeb has served in CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (2002-2010) where she led the CDC’s work to improve public health tracking and monitoring of child abuse and neglect, including publication of CDC’s Child Maltreatment Surveillance-Uniform Definitions for Public Health and Recommended Data Elements. From 2010 to 2021, Dr. Leeb served in the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities where she focused on children’s emotional well-being, children’s disaster related mental health, adolescent mental health and transition to adulthood, and mental health surveillance. Dr. Leeb has participated in numerous CDC emergency responses and most recently served for more than 150 days on the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. She is the author of recent publications including reports describing healthcare transitions for adolescentswith mental, behavioral and developmental disorders and children’s mental health-related emergency department visits during the COVID-19 pandemic.
 
Amelia Burke-Garcia, PhD
Dr. Amelia Burke-Garcia is a seasoned health communications professional with nearly 20 years of experience in public health communication program planning, implementation and evaluation, with specific expertise in developing and evaluating digital health communications campaigns and intervention studies. Currently, Dr. Burke-Garcia is a Program Area Director in the Public Health Department at NORC at the University of Chicago where she directs the How Right Now/Que’ Hacer Ahoracampaign, which is aimed at increasing people’s ability to cope and be resilient amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the course of her career, Dr. Burke-Garcia has spearheaded some of the most innovative communication programs and studies on a variety of health topics including investigating perspectives and motivations of non-vaccinating online influencers, designing a targeted intervention with social media influencers to help lower their readers' risk for breast cancer, and leveraging MeetUp groups and the Waze mobile application to move people to action around flu vaccination and HIV testing, respectively. Her book entitled, Influencing Health: A Comprehensive Guide to Working with Online Influencers, was released in 2019 by Routledge Press. She has been named to VeryWellHealth.com’s list of 10 Modern Female Innovators Shaking Up Health Care and was also named as Diverse Health Hub’s Woman of the Week. She holds a PhD in Communication from George Mason University, a Master’s degree in Communication, Culture, and Technology from Georgetown University, and a joint honors Bachelor’s degree in International Development Studies and Humanistic Studies from McGill University.
 
Lela R. McKnight-Eily, PhD
Dr. Lela R. McKnight-Eily is a Behavioral Scientist and Clinical Psychologist on the Intervention Research Team in the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention at Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention. Dr. McKnight-Eily is lead author of the recent CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) on Racial and Ethnic Disparities titled Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Prevalence of Stress and Worry, Mental Health Conditions, and Increased Substance Use Among Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Additionally, she works to prevent HIV transmission in incarcerated persons rejoining the community and examines the impact of trauma-informed care on HIV transmission. Previously, Dr. McKnight-Eily led programmatic/scientific efforts to increase alcohol screening and brief intervention (alcohol SBI) in primary care to prevent risky alcohol consumption and harms like Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders or FAS. Prior to joining the FAS team, she led several science-based initiatives within the CDC alcohol program with a focus on policy. She has served as a lead scientist, subject matter expert and epidemiologist for mental health and sleep work in National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Dr. McKnight-Eily came to the CDC as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer in 2005, in the Office on Smoking and Health’s Global Tobacco Control Program/Epidemiology Branch.
 
Cynthia Crick, MPH
Cynthia Crick, MPH is currently serving as a Health Communications campaign and Special Projects Advisor in CDC's Division of Population Health. Cynthia is an experienced Public Health Professional. She is an expert communicator with about 25 years of US Government experience. Skilled in Health Communication, Social Media Strategy, Campaign Management, Partnership Development, and Media Relations. MPH from Emory University.
Webinar Overview
 
  • Opening Remarks/Welcome, Richard DeVito & Professor Attila Hertelendy, PhD (co-moderators)
  • Overview of CDC MMWR on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Prevalence of Mental Health Conditions, Dr. Lela McKnight-Eily, CDC 
  • Introduction of How Right Now & Review of the Research, Dr. Amelia Burke-Garcia, NORC at the University of Chicago
  • The Campaign and Resources for Emergency Professionals, Dr. Rebecca Leeb, CDC
  • Curated Q&A via Chat & Closing Remarks Richard DeVito & Professor Attila Hertelendy, PhD 
 
 
(Speakers and topics subject to change without notice)
 
Funding for this training/webinar has been provided by The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under award number U45ES019350, in association with Nova Southeastern University.
 
Moderators:

Professor Attila Hertelendy, PhD, COVID-19 Special Issue Editor, Journal of Emergency Management
Richard A. DeVito, Jr, Managing Editor, Journal of Emergency Management

 


 
 
Stress and Mental Health in Emergency Management
and Affiliated Professions:
It’s OK to talk about it.
 
 Recorded May 6, 2021
1:00 PM (EST)
 
 
 Abstract: This 90 minute webinar will address the current state of mental wellness in the emergency management field and affiliated professions surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic and concurrent disasters. The webinar will address general and pandemic specific stressors and challenges in our profession. Finally, the webinar will delve into potential changes in how EMs and related fields manage mental health across their disciplines. A webinar overview is listed below our speakers.
 
Link to the recording: https://youtu.be/O2dMGUKCNpk
 
Link to post webinar survey: https://conta.cc/3uHskKx

Link to full webinar details and presenters: https://conta.cc/3xBhGqA


 
Presenters:
 
Eric Goralnick, MD, MS
Eric Goralnick, MD, MS serves as Medical Director of the Brigham Health Access Center and Emergency Preparedness. He is responsible for system wide efforts to prepare, mitigate, respond, and recover from disasters in addition to coordination of all outside hospital transfers to the Brigham Health system. He is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and is a practicing Emergency Medicine physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a Level I trauma and burn center in Boston, Massachusetts. He also serves as Medical Director of Gillette Stadium, providing medical direction for all mass gathering events including New England Patriots’ football games and concerts.
 
Chris E. Stout, PsyD
Dr. Chris Stout is a clinical psychologist and the Founding Director of the Center for Global Initiatives. He has held academic appointments at the College of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and was an Invited Faculty at the Annual Meetings of the World Economic Forum in Davos. He also has served as a NGO Special Representative to the United Nations, is a Fellow in the American Psychological Association, past-President of the Illinois Psychological Association, and a Distinguished Practitioner in the National Academies of Practice.
 
Jill Raycroft, MSS, MPA, CEM, MEP
Jill Raycroft, MSS, MPA, CEM, MEP is a dedicated emergency manager with over fifteen years of experience. Her north star is to lead with empathy, equity, and integrity. She is currently the Deputy Incident Commander of the City & County of San Francisco’s (CCSF) COVID Command Center, which comprises over 1,000 disaster service workers and began as an Emergency Operations Center (EOC) in February 2020. She manages the CCSF Department of Emergency Management’s Exercise Program and has directed and helped coordinate over 145 exercises spanning all the Emergency Support Functions with local, regional, state, federal, international, private, and non-governmental organizations. Jill has participated in approximately 60 activations of the city’s EOC and was a Deputy Planning Section Chief in the Westchester County EOC following Hurricane Sandy. Jill is a Certified Emergency Manager and Master Exercise Practitioner.
 
Vincent B. Davis, CEM, MCP, NEMAA
Vincent B. Davis, CEM, MCP, NEMAA is an experienced crisis management and emergency management professional, specializing in design and development of corporate, public sector, and non-government comprehensive frameworks for business resilience and disaster planning. Mr. Davis's experience includes FEMA, American Red Cross, SAIC, Walgreens Co. Sony, Amazon HQ and Feeding America as well as multiple client consulting projects nationwide.
 
Carolyn J. Harshman, CEM
Carolyn J. Harshman, CEM is President of Emergency Planning Consultants located in San Diego, California. Since 1984, Ms. Harshman’s company has provided emergency management plans, training, and exercises to a wide range of government entities. Ms. Harshman's work in emergency management began as a hazard planner and public information officer for the County of San Diego Office of Emergency Services. Ms. Harshman holds a Master of Public Administration Degree from San Diego State University and is a Certified Emergency Manager as conferred by the International Association of Emergency Managers. She is a very active member of IAEM, presently serving as IAEM-USA First Vice President. Prior to working in the field of emergency management, Ms. Harshman enjoyed a combined 20-year career as a city, regional, and redevelopment planner for the County of San Diego, City of San Diego, and Southeastern Economic Development Corporation.
 
Timothy B. Erickson, MD
Dr. Timothy B. Erickson is an Harvard Humanitarian Initiative Core Faculty member with areas of expertise in humanitarian health, environmental toxicology, crisis in climate change, wastewater epidemiology, chemical/biological terrorism, and acute injuries in global conflict and disaster settings. He has active humanitarian health projects in conflict regions of Ukraine and Syria. Dr. Erickson is an emergency medicine physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA where he serves as the Vice Chair for Academic Affairs and the Division Chief of Medical Toxicology in the Mass General Brigham Department of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
 
Kim Guevara, MA
Kim Guevara is the Founder and CEO of Mozaik Solutions. She has 25 years’ experience in emergency management, homeland security, and development. She has provided services to all levels of government, the U.S. military, and in the private and non-profit sectors. Her executive experience includes leadership for change management/business transformation initiatives in order to comply with local, state, federal and Department of Defense regulations and to improve employee morale, talent recruitment, and retention. Kim also has significant international experience in telemedicine and humanitarian development and led initiatives and efforts in Southwest Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Her combined experience in emergency/crisis management, health community initiatives in humanitarian crises, and organizational leadership led her to co-create the Crisis Athlete™ program. At its core, the program challenges, questions, and envisions new, more sustainable pathways for crisis leaders to think about resilience and leadership by leveraging and applying the power of neuroscience at the individual, organizational, and community levels.
 
Sonny S. Patel, MPH, MPhil
Sonny S. Patel, MPH, MPhil, is a Fellow at Harvard University and International Research Scholar at The University of Sydney. Patel is a Public Health and Global Health Executive who serves on advisory committees and board of directors of organizations creating positive social and community impact. Patel is a former National Institutes of Health Fogarty Global Health Scholar and has developed protocols, programs and training to build capacity and knowledge in communities worldwide - from subject matters in Public Health, Community Health, and Mental Health to specialized topics in Emergency Management, Community Resilience, and Disaster Risk Reduction. Patel was recently named in 2020 by USAID in India as one of the top DevDistruptors in Mental Health.
Webinar Overview
 
Brief overview and survey of the stressors in the field. 
  • Unique stressors in emergency management as a profession
  • Unique stressors to emergency managers due to this pandemic
  • Unique stressors due to concurrent disasters and pandemic
 
Normalize mental health challenges across all the populations engaged emergency management
  • Managing mental health for professional staff
  • Managing mental health for volunteer and laypersons
  • Perception of mental health as a sign of weakness
  • Are emergency managers psychologically wired differently to manage stressors?
  • Tending our mental health as a normal preventative health maintenance process
  • Brief discussion on support services, techniques, interventions, etc
 
Determining when to refer out to Mental Health professionals
  • Detection in yourself and others in your team or professional circle of additional help
  • Tools and strategies for prevention of long term destructive and harmful responses
 
Looking Forward: How do we change the way EMs manage mental health as a professional discipline?
  • Competitive stressors
  • Incremental change towards a larger goal
 
Touch on the positive. What does not kill you makes you stronger? Fiction or fact?
 
Lessons learned to this point managing mental health challenges in EM and related professions 
 
Survey of next topics that attendees would like covered in next Mental Health webinar and webinar wrap up.
 
(Speakers and topics subject to change without notice)
 
Funding for this training/webinar has been provided by The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under award number U45ES019350, in association with Nova Southeastern University.
 

COVID-19: Nationalizing the COVID-19 Response under the National Response Framework
 
Join us for an in depth discussion about bringing the COVID-19 response under the National Disaster Framework. Listen to thought leaders including past FEMA Director Craig Fugate, FEMA Manager Richard Buck, Journal of Emergency Management (JEM) Editor-in-Chief, Dr. William Waugh, Jr. and JEM COVID-19 Special Issue Editor Dr. Attila Hertelendy as they discuss the current multi-faceted disaster, bring forward ideas to retool the response, break down silos between the state and federal governments and bring the full capabilities of FEMA and the broad range of players together to address this national emergency.
 
Moderator:
Attila Hertelendy, PhD

Panelists:
Craig Fugate
William Waugh, Jr, PhD
Richard Buck
 
  Jan 28, 2021
 

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