{"id":8251,"date":"2013-01-11T15:12:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T23:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nnlm.gov\/pnr\/dragonfly\/?p=8251"},"modified":"2026-02-03T16:34:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T16:34:37","slug":"hot-topics-incident-command","status":"archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/hot-topics-incident-command\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Topics in Practice: Incident Command Decision Making For Public Health Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8255\" src=\"\/pnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2013\/01\/HTIP_logo.gif\" alt=\"HTIP_logo\" width=\"40\" height=\"46\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, January 15, 2013,\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Noon &#8211; 1pm Pacific<br \/>\nPresenters: <\/strong>Jefferson Ketchel, Jennifer Tebaldi, David Kennedy, Robert Howarth, Kimberly Link<\/p>\n<p>Because obvious public health emergencies like catastrophic storms disrupt the daily activities of a health department, leaders and managers often utilize the Incident Command System to organize resources in these situations.\u00a0 But, how do public health leaders determine when a routine incident evolves into a more complicated situation that requires activating the structure?\u00a0 In the January Hot Topics, representatives from state and local health jurisdictions will decsontruct their decision-making processes to activate Incident Command, respond to emergencies, and ensure business continuity.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A team from Washington State and the CDC will lead off the discussion by describing the algorithm they developed to help public health executives address situations that blur between the routine and non-routine.<\/p>\n<p>A team from Idaho&#8217;s Central District Health Department will then explain ow they used Incident Command to manage a prolonged syphilis outbreak.\u00a0 They will also compare and contrast this experience with managing shorter incidents and speak to the common command structure challenge of managing role dynamics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Registration Information:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For a link to online registration, or to find out about viewing opportunities in your area, click here: \u00a0<a title=\"Hot Topics registration link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nwcphp.org\/training\/opportunities\/hot-topics-in-practice\/register\">http:\/\/www.nwcphp.org\/training\/opportunities\/hot-topics-in-practice\/register<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Connection Information:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Join Link: https:\/\/nwcphp.ilinc.com\/join\/bktcbpb<br \/>\nPhone Number*: 1-800-379-6841 \u00a0Passcode: 541133#<\/p>\n<p>*You may choose to listen to the audio through your computer&#8217;s speakers (choose &#8220;Connect&#8221; when you enter the webinar) or call in by telephone (select &#8220;I am dialed in&#8221; when you join the webinar).<\/p>\n<p>More information about this and other\u00a0<em>Hot Topics<\/em> sessions is available from the\u00a0<em>Hot Topics\u00a0<\/em>web site:\u00a0http:\/\/www.nwcphp.org\/training\/hot-topics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, January 15, 2013,\u00a0Noon &#8211; 1pm Pacific Presenters: Jefferson Ketchel, Jennifer Tebaldi, David Kennedy, Robert Howarth, Kimberly Link Because obvious public health emergencies like catastrophic storms disrupt the daily activities of a health department, leaders and managers often utilize the Incident Command System to organize resources in these situations.\u00a0 But, how do public health leaders&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/hot-topics-incident-command\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[43,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8251","post","type-post","status-archive","format-standard","hentry","category-emergency-preparedness","category-training-education"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17385,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8251\/revisions\/17385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}