The “island” in the title is the Public Health Preparedness island that is part of the virtual world Second Life. The island is developed by the Center for the Advancement of Distance Education (CADE) at the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Our collaborators at the [...]
Entries from December 2007
A Trip to the Island
December 18th, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: software
Advanced Practice Centers
December 12th, 2007 · No Comments
Our research on public health preparedness modeling is funded directly by the Montgomery County, Maryland, Advanced Practice Center for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response. This APC is one of eight APCs supported by the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO). [...]
Tags: planning
Mass Casualty Assessment
December 4th, 2007 · No Comments
The latest addition to our list of public health preparedness models is a mass casualty assessment model called EMCAPS, created by researchers at the PACER center at Johns Hopkins University. According to the developers, “it is intended to allow users to model disaster scenarios for drill planning and to use as an education resource. [...]
Tags: software
