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Preparing, Planning, and Training - Module 3


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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. To complete the certificate please subscribe to the program prior to beginning this module, please click here to begin

Handouts

Faculty

Michael Doyle, M.S.'s Profile

Michael Doyle, M.S. Related Seminars and Products

State Public Health Entomologist

North Carolina Dept of Health


Michael Doyle has served as a State Public Health Entomologist for the NC Division of Public Health, specializing in mosquito diseases since 2016.  His primary roles are to assist counties with mosquito disease surveillance/control and to serve as a central resource for vector risk mitigation.  He also represents the State in the North Carolina Mosquito and Vector Control Association and as Director of the American Mosquito Control Association’s Mid-Atlantic Region. 

The common theme of his career is that all positions involved water and the insects that grow in it. For example, he served as the following: Executive Director of the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District, Entomologist at the Centers for Disease Control, Program Manager at Colorado Mosquito Control, Inc., Regulatory Biologist at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and Wetlands Biologist for Environmental Resource Management, Inc.

His degrees are in Interpretive Natural History (B.A. in Biology/Geology/Education) from Albion College and Entomology (M.S.) from Colorado State University.  


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.