Duke Among Sites to Train First Responders On Infectious Disease Safety

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE on Thursday, June 2, 2016
DURHAM, N.C. – Duke Health is one of eight sites nationally selected to participate in a program to help train first responders and other workers in properly handling infectious disease emergencies.
  The three-year, $9 million program is being launched by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health, in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other federal agencies.
The Duke Infectious Disease Response Training (DIDRT) Consortium will be based out of the Regional Biocontainment Laboratory at Duke and funded at $381,080 total cost per year for three years. The DIDRT Consortium will fulfill a core mandate for the Regional Biocontainment Laboratory, which was built with funding from the NIH.
The training program establishes Duke as a national center of excellence for infectious disease preparedness training. Duke has partnered with safety training experts at Colorado State University, University of Chicago, University of Louisville and George Mason University to extend the reach of the DIDRT consortium.
The DIDRT consortium will provide infectious disease preparedness training for worker populations with important roles in response to future infectious disease emergencies. Among those who will be trained are first responders, as well as ...

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