University-based SARS Tabletop Excercise

University of California at Berkeley SARS Task Force
Public Health Response Subcommittee

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Posted August 22, 2003

On August 21, 2003, the UC Berkeley SARS Public Health Response Working Group held a 3.5 hour SARS tabletop exercise. Below are links to download the silde presentions. There are 30 slides. After presenting background slides, there are 8 pauses for discussion (about 20 min each) and then a debriefing (30 minutes). For our purposes we focused on policy gaps and vulnerabilities. Although there was a tendency to talk about what we "can do", we had to repeatedly remind ourselves to identify gaps and vulnerabilities. We found this approach useful because we had already been meeting since April 2003 to develop our response plan. By now we had a good idea of we can do; for this tabletop we addressed what can go wrong and why.

We found this exercise very useful and we hope you will too. We owe special thanks to the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice (http://healthlinks.washington.edu/nwcphp/), based at the University of Washington School of Public Health. We adapted their approach and some initial slides for our tabletop. Please visit their site because they have a wealth of useful public health educational and training resources.

Slide presentation

• OpenOffice.org Presention file^* (23 KB)
• MS PowerPoint file (98 KB, exported from OpenOffice.org)
• Portable Document Format (PDF) file (134KB, exported from OpenOffice.org)

Schedule and focus areas

• OpenOffice.org Writer file^* (8KB)
• MS Word file (16KB, exported from OpenOffice.org)
• Portable Document Format (PDF) file (65KB, exported from OpenOffice.org)

For feedback, comments, or suggestions please send your emails to Dr. Tomás Aragón at aragon@ucbcidp.org.

Thanks!