CEEDR Projects:

• National Capital Region (NCR) / Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (MWCOG) - Emergency Support Function (ESF) - 8 (disaster health & medical) core training curriculum development project - development, production, and delivery of a core training curriculum for NCR ESF-8 responders to ensure that all ESF-8 responders in the NCR have the same basic disaster response training, regardless of individual discipline or employing agency.
• U.S. Department of Homeland Security / Federal Emergency Management Agency Emergency Management Institute - Catastrophe Readiness and Response Higher Education Course Development Project - developing a higher education course on the essential elements of Catastrophe Readiness and Response, as well as consulting with the FEMA Catastrophe Readiness and Response Planning team in the development of the national Catastrophe Readiness and Response plan.
• Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Emergency planning and surge capacity project for department treatment facilities and hospitals statewide.
• Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Disaster preparedness and surge capacity exercise project for department treatment facilities and hospitals statewide.
• Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments /. National Capital Region Disaster Health and Medical (ESF-8) training core curriculum development.
• Howard County (MD) Public School System - Continuity of Operations / Pandemic Influenza planning and exercise project.
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Public Health Emergency Preparedness Training Blanket Purchase Agreement. Center for Naval Analysis (CNA)/ U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Subcontractor to CNA on a DHHS Blanket Purchase Agreement with multiple training and exercise tasks.
• Maryland Regional National Disaster Life Support (NDLS) Coalition - key and founding member of the coalition; steering committee and executive council member.
• International Emergency Preparedness and Response Research and Training Project (IEPRP), key and founding member of the coalition with responsibility for organizing and delivering international emergency preparedness training. Experience includes multiple training missions to Jordan and Egypt to train Egyptian Ministry of Health and Populations personnel, Iraqi National and Governorate Ministry of Health Personnel, and Afghani Emergency Responders.
• Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Emergency planning and surge capacity project for department treatment facilities and hospitals statewide.
• Howard County (MD) Public School System, Emergency planning, preparedness, training, and exercise project. Revised and updated school emergency response plans and Central Office Emergency Operations Center operations plan; provided incident command training, and emergency preparedness exercises for personnel from 60 schools and for EOC staff; provided emergency operations consulting and advice.
• Prince Georges County (MD) Healthcare Coalition and Health Department, developed a hospital surge capacity expansion plan and resources for use in the event of a disaster.
• Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Developed and wrote the model Statewide Infectious Disease / Bioterrorism Outbreak Response Guidance Plan for EMS for the State of Maryland, USA.
• Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene / University of Maryland, Baltimore - University Hospital Center, consulted in the evaluation of the Harbor Base III statewide bioterrorism drill conducted in 2005.
• Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, wrote the exercise evaluation after action report for the Harbor Base II statewide bioterrorism drill conducted in 2004
• U.S. Public Health Service's Commissioned Corps Ready Reserve Ready Responders, developed and delivered emergency responder training and in-service update training.
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security National Disaster Medical System and Commissioned Corps Readiness Force, produced and delivered online and direct delivery basic and advanced training programs for Federal ESF-8 (health and medical) Disaster Response Teams, reaching over 16,000 responders nationwide.
• Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, National Incident Management System Training Program - direct delivery and distance education.
• Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Emergency Decision Making for Public Health Personnel Training Project - direct delivery and distance education.
• Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Incident Command System Training Program - direct delivery and distance education.
• Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Operational Security Training Program - direct delivery and distance education.