As part of its mission in enhancing military-to-military surveillance and outbreak response initiatives, AFHSC-GEIS, supported a workshop at the request of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) with the aim of sharing resources, strategies and expertise in implementing outbreak preparedness and response initiatives with African militaries.

This is a biosurveillance summary of West Africa Ebola as of April 23, 2015. Since the previous summary (16 APR), there has been an increase of 34 confirmed and 230 suspected and/or probable Ebola virus disease (EVD) cases, (+106 total deaths), bringing the total to 26,097 cases (10,828 deaths). Read more:

Document highlights the updated process timeline for course coordinators and participants to receive Continuing Education (CE) credits post-course facilitation of the TeamSTEPPS curriculum. This process has been udpated due to a recent transition to Postgraduate Institute for Medicine (PIM) accreditation for the curriculum.

Document highlighting the roles and responsibilities of all TeamSTEPPS Course Coordinators, responsible for facilitating training utilizing the DoD Patient Safety Program's TeamSTEPPS curriculum.

Example of a TeamSTEPPS Train the Trainer two day course agenda. TeamSTEPPS Course Coordinators should utilize this example to submit a course request to the DoD Patient Safety Program. This is a requirement to receive accreditation approval for each course from the Postgraduate Institute for Medicine (PIM).

Document outlines the steps for course coordinators and instructors of the DoD Patient Safety Program (PSP) safety training curriculum TeamSTEPPS, to access their instructor profile in the Online Registration Center (ORC). Included in these steps is an overview of the instructor's responsibilities post-course in the ORC to ensure participants receive ...

Example of a TeamSTEPPS Train the Staff course agenda for an AM session. TeamSTEPPS Course Coordinators should utilize this example to submit a course requests to the DoD Patient Safety Program. This is a requirement to receive accreditation approval for each course from the Postgraduate Institute for Medicine (PIM).

Example of a TeamSTEPPS Train the Staff course agenda for an PM session. TeamSTEPPS Course Coordinators should utilize this example to submit a course request to the DoD Patient Safety Program. This is a requirement to receive accreditation approval for each course from the Postgraduate Institute for Medicine (PIM).

HR 4870, SAC Report for FY 2015, 113-211, Pg. 253

This is a biosurveillance summary of Chikungunya as of April 22, 2015. Based on multiple reliable sources, as of 17 APR 2015, 45 (+1) countries or territories in the Americas are reporting locally transmitted chikungunya cases. In the region, there have been at least 1,365,626 (+28,651) suspected, probable, or confirmed cases of the disease (190 ...

Global Influenza Summary: April 18, 2015

This Military Health System (MHS) Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) summarizes the Defense Medical Accessions Computing System (DMACS) system.

S 1197, SASC Report for FY 2014, 113-044, Pg. 133

This is a biosurveillance summary of West Africa Ebola as of April 16, 2015. Since the previous summary (9 APR), there has been an increase of 30 confirmed and 236 suspected and/or probable Ebola virus disease (EVD) cases, (+123 total deaths), bringing the total to 25,833 cases (10,722 deaths). Read more:

This is a biosurveillance summary of Global MERS-CoV Surveillance, as reported by the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch: April 15, 2015. From SEP 2012 to 15 APR, 1,153 (+6) cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) have been reported including 444 (+15) deaths in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), Jordan, Qatar, United ...