Avian Influenza Pandemic Awareness and Preparedness Training to be Offered Online by NexPort Solutions and NEHA.DENVER -- NexPort Solutions and the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA NEHA National Environmental Health Association NEHA National Executive Housekeepers Association NEHA Northern Estates Homeowners Association (Indianapolis, Indiana) ) have formed a partnership to develop and deliver Avian Influenza avian influenza: see influenza. (H5N1) Pandemic pandemic /pan·dem·ic/ (pan-dem´ik) 1. a widespread epidemic of a disease. 2. widely epidemic. pan·dem·ic adj. Epidemic over a wide geographic area. n. Awareness and Preparedness Training. This training will be available online through NexPort performance support portals to domestic and international public health, healthcare, and other professionals preparing for a possible flu pandemic. Throughout all levels of government, and increasingly throughout the private sector, service and business continuity planning Business Continuity Planning (BCP) is an interdisciplinary peer mentoring methodology used to create and validate a practiced logistical plan for how an organization will recover and restore partially or completely interrupted critical function(s) within a predetermined is underway for the eventuality of a prolonged disruptive pandemic of catastrophic proportions on the order of the 1918 Spanish Flu Upon completing the partnership agreement, Mark Allen Mark Allen is the name of:
Nelson Fabian, NEHA Executive Director, added, "The opportunity to provide continuing education continuing education: see adult education. continuing education or adult education Any form of learning provided for adults. In the U.S. the University of Wisconsin was the first academic institution to offer such programs (1904). through such an accessible medium on such a serious concern to our profession is exciting to NEHA. We must keep in mind that the more the public and environmental health professional can learn about this subject, the better they can do their jobs and in the process, protect the health of the communities they serve." The first course of a series of vital training topics will be available through www.nexportsolutions.com/neha beginning March 10, 2006. About NexPort Solutions: NexPort Solutions, a division of Advanced Systems Technology, Inc., provides hosted managed performance-support portals for government and industry in areas of national defense, homeland security, law enforcement and private security, professional associations, and corporate universities. NexPort(TM) is a registered trademark of Advanced Systems Technology, Inc. About NEHA: NEHA is a 5,000-member professional society that covers all areas of environmental health and protection, including terrorism and all-hazards preparedness, food protection, hazardous waste Hazardous waste Any solid, liquid, or gaseous waste materials that, if improperly managed or disposed of, may pose substantial hazards to human health and the environment. Every industrial country in the world has had problems with managing hazardous wastes. , onsite wastewater, air and water quality, and epidemiology -- in both the public and private sectors. NEHA's Journal of Environmental Health provides peer-reviewed scientific articles, as well as information on developments in the profession. |
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