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Epidemiology Rapid Response Teams

Division of Epidemiology and Health Planning
HS2E-B, Frankfort, KY 40601
(502) 564-3418
davide.jones@ky.gov

Background

The Epi Rapid Responders are a small group of multi-disciplinary investigators that act with an immediate and comprehensive response to clusters and potential disease outbreaks.  The teams primarly consist of a nurse, environmentalist and epidemiologist at the local health department level.

The appropriate discipline-specific team members then investigate the case and determine the actual extent and potential spread of the disease. The teams as a whole remain in constant contact with other team members during the entire intervention process until all infected persons have been treated, all contacts have been identified and contacted, and all at-risk persons have been adequately interviewed and/or prophylactically treated. The team will stand down only when all members are in agreement that the disease has sufficiently been controlled.

2007 ERRT Training/Refresher

2006 ERRT Conference
2005 ERRT Conference
2004 ERRT Conference
CE's

Continuing Education:

Online training modules:

University of North Carolina

E is for Epi Session I, Part I: Epidemiology in the Context of Public Health
E is for Epi Session I, Part II: Profile and Practice of Epidemiology
E is for Epi Session II, Part II: Data and Technology "Tools"
E is for Epi Session III, Part I: Descriptive and Analytic Epidemiology
E is for Epi Session III, Part II: Hypotheses and Study Designs

Epi Info Online Courses – All listed and accessible on TRAIN

Session I:  Introduction to Screen Components and Analysis Commands.
Session II: Importing and Exporting Data Tables
Session III: Merging and Relating Data Tables
Session IV: Manipulating Data Prior to Analysis (1)
Session V: Manipulating Data Prior To Analysis (2)
Session VI: Generating Analysis Output 1
Session VII: Generating Analysis Output 2
Session VIII: Generating Epi Curves

 

Membership Requirements

Each member of a local health department Epi Rapid Response Team is required to:

·          Have supervisor and LHD Director approval and submit official Sign-Off Sheet;

·          Attend an ERRT Beginner’s Training Session (usually 2 days);

·          Attend the Application Exercise Day if in the first year as an ERRT member;

·          Attend, as a refresher, an Application Exercise Day once every five years;

·          Complete at least four hours of approved continuing education annually (see below);

·          Attend at least two ERRT Annual Conferences out of every four years.
Last Updated 4/9/2008
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