Workshops are filling
up.
Members throughout the U.S.,
check with The Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health Preparedness to schedule a workshop in
your community.
Check
with FBI on crime scene data\evidence collection, or investigation courses for
first responders or follow-on responders. (Review bullet #2 below).
All
agencies working together and sharing information.
BEMA
REGION IV - COURSE DATE AND LOCATION
Hyatt Regency
Chesapeake Bay
100 Heron Blvd
Cambridge, Maryland
Tuesday, 8/19/2014
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
REGION III - COURSE
DATE AND LOCATION
STATUS: CLOSED FULL CAPACITY
STATUS: CLOSED FULL CAPACITY
Mt. Washington
Conference Center
5801 Smith Avenue
Baltimore, Maryland
21209
Thursday, 8/21/2014
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
MARYLAND
Emergency Management Agency in conjunction with The Johns Hopkins Center for
Public Health Preparedness
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Maryland Forensic
Epi Training
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JOINT CRIMINAL AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL
INVESTIGATION WORKSHOP
The unique challenges of responding
to a biological incident necessitate a high level of cooperation between law
enforcement and public health officials during their respective
investigations. The Joint Criminal and Epidemiological
Investigation Workshop is conducted by subject matter experts from the
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC). The purpose of the workshop is to train law
enforcement and public health professionals how to work closely together for
notification and information sharing purposes in order to successfully and
rapidly respond to a suspected biological incident.
While each discipline has
distinctive investigative roles and responsibilities, there are common goals
shared by law enforcement and public health that unite the two disciplines:
· Early identification and notification that an event has
occurred;
· Rapid and ongoing assessment of whether an event is manmade or
naturally-occurring; and
· Protecting public health and public safety during a response.
Specific topics covered during the
workshop include:
· Roles, responsibilities, and authorities during a biological
incident;
o Law
enforcement investigations and threat assessment
o Public
health epidemiological and medical investigations
· Identification of assets and capabilities for each discipline;
· Joint investigation models and protocols;
· Demonstration of the types of information gathered by law
enforcement and public health and how sharing information can advance both
investigations; and
· Best practices for conducting a joint law enforcement-public
health interview.
At the conclusion of the workshop,
students demonstrate how to conduct a joint investigation by participating in
a scenario-based exercise designed to apply what they have learned during the
course to include notification policies, initial threat assessment, analysis
and sharing of data, identifying the threat, mitigating the threat and
identifying the cause.
Students will receive a copy of the
FBI/CDC Criminal and Epidemiological Investigation Handbook as well as other
tools that can be shared with colleagues.
A .pdf version of the handbook can
be accessed at http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/terrorism/wmd/criminal-and-epidemiological-investigation-handbook.
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