Volume 28, Supplement—December 2022
SUPPLEMENT ISSUE
Workforce
COVID-19 Response Roles among CDC International Public Health Emergency Management Fellowship Graduates
, Catherine Espinosa, Michelle N. Podgornik, Seghen Haile, José J. Aponte, Christopher K. Brown, and Sara J. Vagi
Table 3
Confidence to perform emergency management skills acquired in the CDC PHEM Fellowship program as reported by respondents to a survey of program graduates, April 2021*
| Skill | Emergency management skills used† |
Confidence to perform activity without CDC support‡ |
|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agree or strongly agree | Total no.§ | % (95% CI) | Confident or very confident | Total no.§ | % (95% CI) | ||
| IMS, coordination, communication | |||||||
| Develop a situation report | 64 | 64 | 100 (100.0–100.0) | 55 | 64 | 86 (79.6–92.3) | |
| Develop an incident action plan | 66 | 68 | 97 (94.2–100.0) | 55 | 68 | 81 (74.1–87.6) | |
| Develop response objectives | 72 | 72 | 100 (100.0–100.0) | 61 | 72 | 85 (78.9–90.6) | |
| Develop risk communications | 43 | 45 | 96 (90.6–100.5) | 31 | 45 | 69 (57.7–80.1) | |
| Manage meetings | 73 | 75 | 97 (94.8–99.8) | 61 | 75 | 81 (75.3–87.4) | |
| Serve in an IMS functional role | 66 | 67 | 99 (96.4–100.6) | 51 | 67 | 76 (68.7- 83.5) | |
| Track tasks |
61 |
66 |
92 (87.8– 97.1) |
51 |
66 |
77 (69.9–84.7) |
|
| Policies, plans, SOPs | |||||||
| Create a PHEOC handbook | 43 | 46 | 94 (87.6–99.4) | 31 | 46 | 67 (56.2–78.6) | |
| Create standard operating procedures | 70 | 70 | 100 (100.0–100.0) | 54 | 70 | 77 (70.1–84.1) | |
| Develop a concept of operations | 47 | 50 | 94 (88.7–99.3) | 34 | 50 | 68 (57.6–78.4) | |
| Develop an all-hazards plan | 44 | 45 | 98 (94.2–101.3) | 32 | 45 | 71 (60.1–82.1) | |
| Develop hazard-specific contingency plans | 53 | 57 | 93 (87.8–98.1) | 38 | 57 | 67 (57.2–76.1) | |
| Develop legal authorities for PHEOC |
46 |
48 |
96 (91.2–100.4) |
30 |
48 |
63 (51.3–73.7) |
|
| Preparedness, exercises, evaluation | |||||||
| Conduct a risk assessment | 50 | 52 | 96 (92.0–100.3) | 35 | 52 | 67 (57.1–77.5) | |
| Conduct an after-action review | 54 | 56 | 96 (92.6–100.2) | 41 | 56 | 73 (64.2–82.3) | |
| Contribute to exercise development | 60 | 61 | 98 (96.0–100.8) | 45 | 61 | 74 (65.4–82.1) | |
| Facilitate PHEM trainings in-country | 65 | 67 | 97 (94.1–100.0) | 50 | 67 | 75 (67.1–82.2) | |
| Perform watch desk duties | 48 | 48 | 100 (100.0–100.0) | 39 | 48 | 81 (72.3–90.2) | |
| Other | 14 | 15 | 93 (81.4–105.3) | 10 | 15 | 67 (44.0–89.3) | |
*CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; PHEM, Public Health Emergency Management; PHEOC, public health emergency operations center; SOP, standard operating procedure. †Complete survey question: The PHEM fellowship program introduces many emergency management skills. Which of those skills have you performed individually or as part of a group, before, during, or after a public health response? ‡Complete survey question: How confident were you in your abilities to implement the activity in your country without any technical support from CDC? §No. respondents answering questions. Questions were dependent on a skip pattern, so no. respondents differed for each question.