Regional Emergency Information
To protect the health and lives of people in Maine by strengthening the ability of health agencies and partner organizations in Southern Maine to detect, contain and manage public health threats and emergencies.
Yale New Haven Center for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response: Online Education & Training For NIMS, ICS, PPE, Radiological Preparedness and Mental HealthEmergency Management Courses. Also see the Preparedness Report (click on This week's report)
Maine Epi-Gram, A science-based information guide to Maine's healthcare professionals on issues of public health and infectious disease. Promoting statewide infectious disease surveillance
Emergency Preparedness Monthly. The Harvard School of Public Health, Center for Public Health Preparedness, Maine Edition.
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Maine Weekly Influenza Surveillance Report
May 21, 2008 full story..
Reportable Diseases in Maine full story...
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Steven J. Trockman, MPH
Steve Trockman is Director of the Southern Maine Regional Resource Center for
Public Health Emergency Preparedness (http://www.smrrc.org/) at Maine Medical
Center (http://www.mmc.org) in Portland. With a staff of eight, the Resource Center is responsible for training, exercising, and developing comprehensive health systems emergency preparedness and response planning in Southern Maine. Before this, Steve served as Public Health Emergency Preparedness Coordinator with the Maine Department of Health and Human Services, Bureau of Health (http://www.maine.gov/dhhs/boh/). Previous to that position, Steve worked with the Utah Department of Health (http://health.utah.gov/), where he spent two years on field assignment from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (http://www.cdc.gov/) as a Public Health Prevention Specialist. While in Utah he worked on a team to develop and implement enhanced reportable, sentinel, and syndromic surveillance systems for the 2002 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. Prior to his field assignment, Steve worked with CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
and with the National Center for Chronic Disease
Prevention and Health Promotion. He is a graduate of
the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he studied
sociology, history of medicine, and pre-medicine; and Emory University's Rollins
School of Public Health (http://www.sph.emory.edu/index.php) where he studied
behavioral sciences and health education, with a specialization in maternal and
child health. In their free time, Steve and his wife enjoy sea kayaking, camping,
nordic skiing, mountaineering, and adventure travel.
Steve can be contacted by telephone: 207.662.5142 or by e-mail:
trocks@mmc.org
Southern Maine Regional Resource Center For Emergency Preparedness at Maine Medical Center, 131 Chadwick Street, Portland, ME 04102, Phone: (207) 662-5142, fax: (207) 662-5139
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