04/29/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Published: 4/29/2020. This five-page report provides two data dashboards that highlight the huge disparities in countries’ abilities to cope with and recover from the COVID-19 crisis. They provide statistics about preparedness of countries to respond to COVID-19, and vulnerability to pandemics. (PDF)
04/29/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Imperial College London. Published: 4/29/2020. This 29-page report describes the characteristics and outcomes of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 in three large London hospitals with a multi-ethnic catchment population. (PDF)
04/28/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 4/28/2020. This interim guidance is intended for healthcare providers who care for breastfeeding women and infants who receive breast milk in the context of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). It is based on what is currently known about SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and the transmission of other viral respiratory pathogens. (Text)
04/28/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: White House. Published: 4/28/2020. This 11-page document, published with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration, provides guidelines to help state and local officials reopen their economies and get people back to work, while protecting the health and safety of the American people during the COVID-19 pandemic. It highlights three core elements: Robust Diagnostic Testing Plans, Timely Monitoring Systems, and Rapid Response Programs. (PDF)
04/28/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC). Published: 4/28/2020. This nine-page guidance is designed to be a short, technical step-by-step guide aimed at non-Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) countries to support the development, or strengthening, of preparedness measures to ensure that country teams are operationally ready-to-implement activities to address the potential non-health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and its compound effect on existing risks. (PDF)
04/28/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: International Labour Organization (ILO). Published: 4/28/2020. This 52-page document highlights the occupational safety and health risks arising from the spread of COVID-19. It also explores measures to prevent and control the risk of contagion, psychosocial risks, and ergonomic and other work-related safety and health risks associated with the pandemic. (PDF)
04/28/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO). Published: 4/28/2020. This is an introductory online course for entry-level COVID-19 contact tracers, for use by health agencies in rapid training of new contact tracers. The training will be augmented by state/local specific training required to orient individuals to jurisdiction-specific protocols. It focuses on building knowledge for remote contact tracing; a subsequent release will include a module on field services. (Video or Multimedia)
04/27/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 4/27/2020. This web page, updated on April 27, 2020, provides interim guidance for healthcare professionals regarding COVID-19 in two sections: Criteria to Guide Evaluation and Laboratory Testing for COVID-19; and Recommendations for Reporting, Testing, and Specimen Collection. (Text)
04/27/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division (HMD). Published: 4/27/2020. The aim of this paper is to identify strategies to increase access to effective medical treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD), with a focus on addressing barriers limiting access to medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) in healthcare settings that patients with OUD are likely to encounter. It includes nine key barriers that prevent access to evidence-based care, including stigma; inadequate clinical training; a dearth of addiction specialists; lack of integration of MOUD provision in practice; regulatory, statutory, and data sharing restrictions; and financial barriers. (Text)
04/23/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Published: 4/23/2020. This data note provides data on long-term care facility COVID-19 cases and deaths by state, using data reported directly by states (versus through news outlets) through either state COVID-19 reporting or state press releases. It includes all available long-term care facility data reported by state, including cases among both residents and staff, where available. (Text)
04/22/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Published: 4/22/2020. This 54-minute webinar, sponsored by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Roundtable on Quality Care for People with Serious Illness, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, and the Forum on Aging, Disability, and Independence, highlights the innovative approaches to address the complex challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic for nursing homes that are currently being implemented in the state of Maryland. (Video or Multimedia)
04/14/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Nurse-Led Care Consortium (NNCC). Published: 4/14/2020. Speakers in this one-hour, three-minute webinar discuss the importance of enhanced response where opportunities exist to flattened the curve of the COVID-19 pandemic, how to recognize the importance of addressing social determinants of health in managing pandemic, and five best practices to flatten the curve. (Video or Multimedia)
04/08/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Enhancing Learning and Research for Humanitarian Assistance (ELRHA). Published: 4/8/2020. While this 14-page resource is especially relevant for those working in refugee or other low resource settings, the researchers suggest this guidance can be adopted by children’s mental health services worldwide who are now transitioning to online or phone delivery due to COVID-19. It draws on the researchers’ experience adapting an existing psychological treatment to phone delivery for Syrian refugee children living in Lebanon. (PDF)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Mongan Institute [Massachusetts General Hospital]. Published: 4/1/2020. This 42-page document was developed to assist institutions as they are trying to get approval for use of the COVID-19 Symptom Tracker app. These documents are templates to help them work toward getting IRB approval. The app will offer an opportunity to rapidly introduce an easy-to-use data collection tool to track COVID-19 exposure, symptoms, and outcomes in real-time during the acute phase of this pandemic, which will be invaluable for studies. Population: Adults only Length: 66 questions Administered by: Self Administered/Self Report Language: English COVID-19 Symptom Tracker Mobile App (CSTM): Full Survey https://www.phenxtoolkit.org/
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Published: 4/1/2020. UNICEF and USAID Advancing Nutrition, with the support of the Infant Feeding in Emergencies (IFE) Core Group represented by Save the Children and Safely Fed Canada, have developed this counseling package for infant and young child feeding in the context of COVID-19, which includes 10 Counseling Cards and a Recommended Practices Booklet. It provides both easy-to-understand recommended practices for counselors and user-friendly graphics that can be used with low-literacy communities in different contexts. (Text)
03/30/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 3/30/2020. This web page provides a simple screening tool that can be used to identify people with symptoms that indicate they might have a respiratory infection. Although not every person who has respiratory infection symptoms will have coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), using this tool during community spread of COVID-19 may help separate those who are more likely to have COVID-19 from the general population at entry to a homeless shelter or other homeless service program. (Text)
03/30/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). Published: 3/30/2020. This 135-page report examines federal efforts and challenges related to surveillance of antibiotic resistance, the development and use of diagnostic testing to identify antibiotic resistance, the development of treatments for resistant infections, and appropriate antibiotic use. It provides eight recommendations to strengthen the federal response to combating antibiotic resistance. (PDF)
03/25/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: American College of Medical Toxicology (ACMT). Published: 3/25/2020. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the American College of Medical Toxicology is collaborating with national and international partner societies, as well as members of the Global Clinical Toxicology Community, to offer periodic web-based presentations, panel discussions, and briefings. The goal of these web-based communications is to provide timely, critical, and science-practice-based information to those who are part of the global response to this pandemic and caring for COVID-19 patients. (Video or Multimedia)
03/10/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: University of North Carolina, Gillings School of Global Public Health. Published: 3/10/2020. This module was developed to inform public health professionals such as community health workers, case managers, nurses, and other professionals in the public health sector about how extreme heat can exacerbate air pollution. It was developed by the Community Engagement Core in the UNC Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility at the UNC-Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health. Content covered in this module is derived from current peer-reviewed scientific research; this module has been reviewed by subject matter experts. Funding was provided by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. (Video or Multimedia)
01/30/2020 12:00 AM EST
Source: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services] (HHS ASPR). Published: 1/30/2020. This webinar provides public health partners with an overview of the Federal Medical Station (FMS) mission, capabilities, and formulary, as well as an orientation to the 50-bed and 250-bed FMS cache configurations, components of an FMS bariatric kit, and facility and logistical support requirements to successfully conduct FMS operations. (Video or Multimedia)
01/27/2020 12:00 AM EST
Source: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services] (HHS ASPR). Published: 1/27/2020. The Put Away process is used to move inventory from the receiving area to the proper storage location. The Put Away lists are automatically generated when inventory is received in IMATS. Note: This is a training video. Once the three-minute video has been completed, please close the video window by clicking the (X) in the top left corner of page to return to TRAIN. Registration will be marked complete and a certificate will be awarded. (Video or Multimedia)
01/08/2020 12:00 AM EST
Source: Boston Public Health Commission, Office of Public Health Preparedness, DelValle Institute for Emergency Preparedness. Published: 1/8/2020. This online course provides an overview of how to implement a Hazard Vulnerability Analysis (HVA) process in a healthcare organization. The course is based on Joint Commission standards, federal guidance, and best practices using the Kaiser Permanente Hazards and Vulnerability Assessment Tool as a model. By completing this course, emergency management healthcare professionals will learn to develop and implement an HVA process. (Video or Multimedia)
01/01/2020 12:00 AM EST
Source: Global Consortium for Chemosensory Research (GCCR). Published: 2020. The Global Consortium for Chemosensory Research COVID-19 Survey (GCCR) is about how COVID-19 or other upper respiratory illnesses affect taste, smell, and chemesthesis (e.g., burn of chili peppers). The questionnaire is deployed in 21 languages and data collection is ongoing. The Questionnaire was created by the Global Consortium for Chemosensory Research which has more than >500 members in more than 50 countries. Preliminary testing of these items was conducted by an expert review and other validation efforts (e.g., the comparison of these questionnaire results to laboratory-based methods of measuring smell loss) are ongoing. Population: All/Anyone Length: 40 questions, some optional Administered by: Self Administered/Self Report Language(s): English, Spanish, Dutch, German, French, Italian, Portugese, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Urdu, Arabic, Hindi, Bangla, Punjabi, Gujarati, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Chinese, Japanese, Korean (PDF)
01/01/2020 12:00 AM EST
Source: U.S. Census Bureau. Published: 2020. The Household Pulse Survey has been designed as an experimental endeavor by the Census Bureau in cooperation with five other federal agencies to provide critical, up-to-date information about the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on the U.S. population. Question domains were contributed by the Census Bureau, Economic Research Service (ERS), Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), and the Department of Housing (HUD) to measure employment status, consumer spending, food security, housing, education disruptions, and basic dimensions of health. Many of the questions that will be asked on this survey have been fielded on other surveys in the past. However some are new, designed to explore potential impacts associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. These latter questions have been and continue to be cognitively tested. Questions may be modified slightly based on findings in this process. Population: All/Anyone Length: 50 questions Time to Complete: 20 minutes Administered by: Self Administered/Self Report Language(s): English, Spanish (PDF)
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