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Module 3 - Preparing, Planning, and Training


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Categories:
Integrated Mosquito Management |  Emergency Response
Faculty:
Michael Doyle, M.S. |  Susanne Kluh, MS
Course Levels:
All Levels
Duration:
32 minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
License:
Never Expires.


Description

Welcome to Module 3 Preparing, Planning, and Training of the AMCA's Mosquito Management During a Public Health Emergency Virtual Training Program.

Preparing, Planning, and Training

  • Planning for natural disaster vs. disease outbreak
  • Necessary information
  • Contracts and MOUs in place
  • Practice and review your plan regularly
  • Hold a workshop

Additional Resources:

  1. ASTHO. 2012. Retrieved July 16, 2024 from www.astho.org/globalassets/pdf/state-local-governance-classification-tree.pdf
  2. CDC. (2024). CDC Guidelines for West Nile Virus Surveillance and Control. Retrieved July 16, 2024 from www.cdc.gov/west-nile-virus/php/surveillance-and-control-guidelines/index.html

If you are interested in completing the AMCA's Mosquito Management During a Public Health Emergency Virtual Training Program Certificate, you MUST do this module within the overall program. If you have not come to this page from the program please subscribe to the program prior to beginning this module, please click here to begin

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Faculty

Michael Doyle, M.S.'s Profile

Michael Doyle, M.S. Related Seminars and Products


Michael Doyle has over 25 years of experience in municipal, county, state, federal and Special District mosquito control operations and research, and is a State Public Health Entomologist for NC DHHS. He is currently serving as Mid-Atlantic Director for the American Mosquito Control Association and formerly served as President of the North Carolina and West Central Mosquito Control Associations. He was most recently Executive Director of the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District and worked alongside FDA, FDACS and other regulatory agencies on introducing genetically modified mosquitoes into the US. Prior to serving the Florida Keys he was a contract entomologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Fort Collins, CO. His direct mosquito control experience started as a field technician for Colorado Mosquito Control, Inc. while in graduate school, eventually managing multiple integrated mosquito management programs for HOAs, cities, and counties along Colorado’s Front Range.


Susanne Kluh, MS Related Seminars and Products


Susanne Kluh is the General manager for the Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District (GLACVCD). She has a MS in biology from the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Susanne was selected to lead the agency in March of 2022. She joined the GLACVCD staff in 1999 as Assistant Vector Ecologist and was the Scientific-technical Director of the agency for 13 years before taking on the GM position. Susanne has many decades of experience, having spent her entire career in the field of mosquito and vector control, working for the German Mosquito Control Association before joining Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District.


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