Class Recordings

ASPR TRACIE: A Healthcare Emergency Preparedness Information Gateway

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange (TRACIE) provides stakeholders easy access to healthcare emergency preparedness information, promising practices, and relevant new knowledge. ASPR TRACIE is designed to identify and remedy knowledge gaps and provide unique and complex technical assistance to a variety of stakeholders working to meet healthcare system and public health preparedness objectives. During this…
Date: September 13, 2023

Your Environment. Your Health: Free Information Resources from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

This webinar will introduce you to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the wealth of free resources available to you. NIEHS has several tools that will help increase your awareness of knowledge of environmental health sciences including new literature portals on climate change and human health, PFAS and related chemicals, and disaster research response. You will also learn how the NIEHS Library can be your partner in providing environmental health information.

Please join NNLM and guest speaker, Erin…
Date: November 15, 2022

Connecting Climate Change, Mosquitoes, and Community Health

Abstract

Scientists use environmental data obtained from NASA satellites to create regional predictive risk models of mosquito-borne disease outbreaks. The spatial patterns of precipitation, humidity, temperature, and land cover identify the locations where disease carrying mosquitoes can thrive and transmit pathogens that cause disease. The data obtained from satellites can be enhanced with high resolution, ground-based observations made by citizen scientists participating…
Date: December 8, 2021