Long Term Power Outages and Public Health: Perspectives from Practitioners

On Demand

Speaker(s)

Tara Kirk Sell, PhD

Senior Scholar
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Amanda Kobokovich, MPH

Analyst, Research Associate
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Elena Martin, MPH

Analyst, Research Associate
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Michael E. Pafford

Member
International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE)

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Part A: Long Term Power Outages and Public Health: Perspectives from Practitioners

Power outages — whether natural or intentional in nature — have the potential to cripple communications, mass transit, and healthcare systems, wreaking an impact on nearly all facets of everyday life. With a focus on health consequences, this session will present barriers, response strategies, and lessons learned from responding to long-term power outages.

Part B: Modeling Resilient Hospitals: Critical Operations Persistence During Extended Power Outages

Long-term loss of electrical power is a major disabling obstacle to critical hospital operations. This session will introduce an ongoing effort by experts in hospital operations and model-based systems engineering to develop ways that hospitals can best deal with this threat and continue to serve their communities.

Watch the Part B video here: https://90af0f3e7394e7f0679d-cd4886c59f77181c86c2341e2910ad5f.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/NACCHO_Virtual/1234881_Long_Term_Power_2.mp4