Introduction

This lesson builds on the last lesson's orientation by expanding your contacts to include your course team members. It also explores the vital issue of decision-making in the emerging field of public health preparedness and frames the remainder of the course topics in this larger context. To that end, you will also begin to familiarize yourself with the National Response Framework (NRF), a seminal document that you will return to throughout the program.

Objectives

By the end of this lesson, you should be able to

• recall your team assignment, fellow team members, and assigned lessons for which you serve as team leader; and
• demonstrate an appreciation of the overall course objectives in the context of decision making in an emerging professional discipline.