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The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services created this emergency response plan to guide state officials on an effective response to a pandemic. This plan can be used and adapted by other state and public health officials to prepare their agencies for a pandemic influenza outbreak.
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This web page contains comprehensive resources for institutions of higher education related to preparing for, responding to, and recovering from an epidemic or pandemic. Resources cover vaccination and pandemic planning, pandemic response plans, and tips for health and safety.
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Ready.gov provides steps individuals can take before, during, and after a pandemic to reduce the likelihood of illness and stay as healthy and safe as possible. Links to related information are also provided.
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Influenza A viruses established in many animal species can infect humans. This fact sheet explores the pandemic potential of these viruses, signs and symptoms in humans, and treatment and prevention protocols.
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This report describes how law enforcement departments and offices responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in its first year (March 2020 through March 2021). It features information and key takeaways for readers to use to prepare for and respond to future public health emergencies. Although this report was created during the COVID-19 pandemic, it includes information that will be helpful in the event of future pandemics.
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This tip sheet explores the effects a pandemic can have on an individual’s ability to manage stress and provides coping skills and strategies. It provides information concerning common reactions in adults, children, and teenagers, as well as tips for managing financial stress.
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Provided for healthcare professionals and others responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, this hour-long webinar recording defines burnout, compassion fatigue, moral injury, and resilience. It covers ways to manage burnout, compassion fatigue, and moral injury and to increase resilience. Although this webinar was created during the COVID-19 pandemic, it includes information that will be helpful in the event of future pandemics.
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This tip sheet explores the effects a pandemic can have on an individual’s ability to manage stress and provides coping skills and strategies. It provides information concerning common reactions in adults, children, and teenagers, as well as tips for managing financial stress.
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This literature review explores the effect of quarantine and isolation during disease outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics on the risk of suicide. It includes studies on the impacts of outbreaks and epidemics including the Spanish influenza outbreaks, H1N1 influenza, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Ebola virus disease, and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS).
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Designed for healthcare workers, this 1-hour webinar recording covers ways to manage stress (and support colleagues in stress management) during the COVID-19 pandemic. The webinar focuses on the Stress First Aid framework for self-care, stress management, and peer support. Although this webinar was created during the COVID-19 pandemic, it includes information likely to be helpful in the event of future pandemics.
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This research brief provides recommendations and resources for supporting children during the COVID-19 pandemic. It explains possible reactions, highlights the importance of a responsive caregiver, and provides tips for self-care for adults and youth. While this brief was created during the COVID-19 pandemic, it includes information that will be helpful in the event of future pandemics.
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This manual provides emergency responders with guidance on pandemic best practices, models, and protocols. The guide suggests ways to protect first responders and their families and adjust operations for emergency preparedness and response maintenance during a pandemic. It also offers useful tools, including a staff planning tool and gap analysis activity.
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The authors of this PowerPoint presentation share information about the negative effects that a pandemic can have on mental health. The PowerPoint presents information on emotional responses, grief and loss, and mental health planning and response.
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This plan outlines strategies for the State of Arizona to contain a disease outbreak caused by an infectious disease or toxin with the potential to lead to major public health and economic concerns, or to respond to an outbreak that has led to such concerns. The plan identifies planning assumptions, defines organizations' roles and responsibilities, and addresses concerns such as personal protective equipment and public health monitoring.
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This fact sheet offers guidance on pandemic influenza preparedness and response. The authors list steps that officials can take to support communities in preparedness, response, and recovery and to plan for mental health interventions such as effective risk and safety communication and Psychological First Aid.
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An updated version of the 2013 interim guidance, this resource provides information to guide nations and regions in preparedness for and response to pandemic influenza. It outlines the World Health Organization’s responsibilities related to pandemic preparedness, describes the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework, and offers guidance on pandemic influenza risk assessment and management.
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This guide provides law enforcement agencies with the steps to follow to ensure good health for their workforce. The authors offer an overview of occupational health and safety for law enforcement, review occupational health and safety programs, discuss assessing current efforts, and identify common challenges and provide recommendations for overcoming them.
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This tip sheet provides information on the impact pandemic flu can have on families. It provides tips for parents on how to prepare their families, and how to cope with stress and grief.
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The purpose of this report is to provide a step-by-step planning process guide to ensure the continuation of police work during an influenza pandemic. The resource includes information on identifying a department planning team, gathering information and resources, communicating internally and externally before and during pandemic influenza, and exercising and updating the plan.
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This tip sheet provides information on the impact pandemic flu can have on families. It provides tips for parents on how to prepare their families and how to cope with stress and grief.
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This document is intended to help healthcare workers and employers prepare for and respond to an influenza pandemic. It provides clinical background information on influenza, infection control strategies, and appendices that provide pandemic planners with infection control plan samples, pandemic planning tools, and additional technical information.
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The authors of this manual developed a customizable template for tabletop exercises for pandemic influenza preparedness. The resource includes the overall objective of the exercises, general exercise framework, and template exercise slides for the tabletop exercise.
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Developed for emergency planners and service providers for people experiencing homelessness, this resource reviews research and highlights the importance of disaster planning to best serve at-risk populations. Guidance provided includes suggestions for supporting specific needs and managing service reductions. Although this resource was created during the COVID-19 pandemic, it includes information applicable to future pandemics.
This web page offers information about pandemic influenza, including links to information about the differences between seasonal and pandemic influenza, national pandemic strategy documents, and updates on public health monitoring activities. The page also features links to resources for pandemic influenza planning at global, national, state, and local levels.
This web page defines different types of flu outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics, and H1N1 and avian influenza. The page also shares tips for preventing and treating the flu.
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