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The Department of Defense 
Medical Interagency Satellite Training Program  (MIST)

Present: 

“Mosquito Abatement in Louisiana
Post Katrina and Rita”

Thursday 11 October 2007; 1300-1430 ET

New; Live Broadcast

Available on GETN/Warrior/MIST Satellite Platforms

No CE Credits 

a.  Sponsors:  This program is co-sponsored for Military and Federal GETN subscribers by The Alabama Department of Public Health and Department of Defense Medical Interagency Satellite Program with the  technical support of the Satellite Education Network (SEN) at Ft. Lee, VA.  

b.  Availability:  This program will be available to military and federal GETN/MIST sites that have GETN/ATN/Warrior digital satellite downlinks.  List of potential GETN receive sites can be seen here:  GETN Site Location.

MIST affiliate satellite networks such as the VA’s Employee Education System and the Department of Justice Television Network may also carry this program but IAW with their own scheduling requirements.  C/KU analog coordinates are available for this live program.  Look for final confirmation for this information. 

Videoconferencing availability may be available to selected military and federal VTC sites using the USA TNET or the USN CNET networks and other VTC networks able to connect to this satellite feed.   Site coordinators using VTC are responsible for their own bridge coordination.

Will this program be Webcast?  Yes, live and archived, see confirmation.

c.  Target Audience Statement:  Military, federal and Environmental health personnel, public health nurses, rural public health, laboratory personnel, first responders, community planners, command and control personnel, public health and medical students, all public health professionals and their partners with whom they will need to communicate in a public health emergency. 

d.  Program Summary:  On August 31, 2005, the landfall of Hurricane Katrina and its associated storm surge resulted in the destruction of large areas of Louisiana, which included Plaquemines and St. Bernard Parishes and the cities of Slidell and New Orleans.  Three weeks later, Hurricane Rita pushed a second record storm surge over the western coast of Louisiana, destroying huge areas of Cameron and Vermillion Parishes.  Vector control became an issue of utmost importance.  Many of the professionals who normally handled these duties had evacuated and were as far away as California.  

The mosquito/vector control response capacity pre-Katrina and Rita will be addressed and compared to mosquito/vector control response post-hurricane.  Other topics to be covered include vector-related public health concerns such as arboviruses, as well as vectors of concern such as various mosquitoes, filth flies, bottle and blow flies and rats.  The broadcast also will address the vector-related problems that continue to confront professionals, as storm-related changes in the ecology of vast areas of the state present ongoing challenges to mosquito abatement. 

Program Objectives: 

·         Describe several post hurricane (major) public health vector concerns.
·         Discuss several Katrina/Rita public health vector abatement solutions.
·         Explain how post Katrina/Rita ecological changes have permanently altered vector abatement in Louisiana.

Faculty:  Kyle Moppert, Medical Entomologist, Department of Health and Hospitals, Office of Public Health Center for Environmental Health Services

 e.  CEUs, CMEs, Certificates:  None for this program.

f.  DVD/Videotape Availability:  None, sites should tape from broadcast.

g.  Videotape release (if taping from broadcast):  This FREE program is unclassified and non-scrambled.  There are no copyright restrictions on this program, however it MAY NOT be videotaped and re-broadcast where fees are attached to its showing.  They may also not be used for commercial purposes or for profit purposes by commercial organizations without additional permission of the sponsors.  

h.  Web Site Support:  Handouts in final confirmation.

i.  Interactivity/Questions:  You are invited to join an in-depth question and answer session and your questions will be answered live as they are received throughout the broadcast.  For a preview of the program format, visit: www.adph.org/alphtn  and click the "Preparedness Video Link."  You can email your questions in advance to: alphtnquestions@adph.state.al.us.

j.  Registration:  All military and federal GETN sites MUST register for this FREE, public domain program to receive the necessary illumination authentication (GETN/Warrior dishes) and coordinates.  Sites may register at: DOD-MIST Registration Site or by calling the DOD-MIST Satellite Program Registrations Coordinator, toll free at 877-820-0305 or 888-820-4898. 

k.  Future Programs:  For future information on free interagency satellite broadcasts co-sponsored by the DOD MIST program (subject to change due to satellite availability and other scheduling issues) and other sponsors please visit this web site:  (Information changes periodically; please refresh your browser upon each visit) http://www.dlnets.com/itv.htm#current.

l.  Program Requests:  Miss a program and would like it repeated?  Make your request here: DOD-MIST Program Request Form.

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