Resource Library
By Topic – Population Monitoring
| Title | Source | Media | Audience |
|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Source | Media | Audience |
Radiation Emergencies: What to Expect at a Community Reception Center (CRC)
 An infographic detailing services that you may receive at a CRC, but you may not need to receive all of these services. Each CRC may be a little different. |
CDC | PDF, Image | Clinicians, Public Health Professionals |
| Radiation Response Briefing Manual: A Guide for Key Leaders and Public Health Decision Makers (July 2020) is a just-in-time overview of radiation hazards and response considerations for radiation emergencies to help public health officials, emergency managers, and elected officials involved in planning for and managing the public health response to a radiation emergency. | CDC | Public Health Professionals, Emergency Management Officials, Radiation Protection Officials | |
| Success Stories in Radiation Emergency Preparedness These videos show state and local best practices in radiation emergency preparedness, and describe how state and local partners have used CDC resources to increase their capacity and enhance programs. |
CDC | Website | Public health professionals |
| CRC Electronic Data Collection Tool (CRC eTool) This tool is designed to collect, analyze, visualize, and securely exchange population monitoring data, including demographics, radiation contamination measurements, radiation exposure assessment, and health outcomes, using the Epi Info™ 7 platform. | CDC | Website | Public health professionals |
| Public Health Radiological/Nuclear Preparedness Webinar This August 2017 webinar provides discussion of the priority public health actions for state and local radiological/nuclear response, as well as an outline of CDC resources to assist with public health planning, particularly for a nuclear detonation. | CDC | Website | Public, public health professionals, clinicians, first responders |
| Where to Go in a Radiation Emergency This animated infographic shows the best way to shelter in place in a radiation emergency. | CDC | Video | Public, public health professionals, clinicians, first responders |
| Determining Deaths from a Radiation Emergency This fact sheet helps medical certifiers such as medical examiners and coroners understand the health effects of radiation so that they can accurately determine the illnesses or injuries that caused the death. | CDC | Website | Medical examiners |
| Community Reception Center (CRC) Drill Toolkit
This new toolkit has been created to help communities, agencies, and emergency planners design and implement a Community Reception Center (CRC) Drill.The CRC Drill toolkit provides guidance and templates that any jurisdiction can adapt to exercise the full range of CRC operations. The drill was developed to be compatible with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP). It also incorporates insights, issues, and lessons learned from real-world events. |
CDC | Website | Public Health Professionals, First Responders |
| Use of Environmental Monitoring Data to Support Public Health Decision Making in Radiation Emergencies
This training is a panel discussion focused on identifying federal resources available to respond to radiation emergencies, discussing the response timeline, and describing the types of information and data products that will be available to responders and decision makers. |
CDC | Video | Public Health Professionals, First Responders, Clinicians |
| Population Monitoring in Radiation Emergencies: A Guide for State and Local Public Health Planners – Second Edition, April 2014
The second edition of this planners guide presents an introduction to population monitoring in radiation emergencies for public health officials and emergency preparedness planners at the state and local levels. It also incorporates recommendations received from users as well as new information from a number of recent national and international consensus documents related to population monitoring. This second edition also features expanded appendices with related tools and resources. |
CDC | Public Health Professionals | |
| Application: Internal Contamination Clinical Reference (ICCR)
An application (for Android devices, iPads, and iPhones) estimating reference concentrations of radionuclides in urine assuming intakes equal to one Clinical Decision Guide (CDG) for each radionuclide. |
CDC | Application | Public Health Professionals, Clinicians, First Responders |
| Internal Contamination Clinical Reference (ICCR) Walkthrough
A walkthrough for the ICCR, an application (for Android devices, iPads, and iPhones) estimating reference concentrations of radionuclides in urine assuming intakes equal to one Clinical Decision Guide (CDG) for each radionuclide. |
CDC | Public Health Professionals, Clinicians, First Responders | |
| Use of Radiation Detection, Measuring, and Imaging Instruments to Assess Internal Contamination from Intakes of Radionuclides
A website detailing how to assess internal contamination from intakes of radionuclides through the use of radiation detection, measuring and imaging instruments. |
CDC | Website | Clinicians, First Responders |
| Radiation Emergency Medical Management (REMM) Homepage
REMM provides guidance to health care providers (primarily physicians) about clinical diagnosis and treatment of radiation injury during radiological and nuclear emergencies. It also provides just-in-time, evidence-based, usable information with sufficient background and context to make complex issues understandable to those without formal radiation medicine expertise. |
REMM | Website | Clinicians, Public Health Professionals, First Responders, Medical Examiners |
| National Alliance for Radiation Readiness (NARR) Homepage
NARR is a coalition of public health, healthcare, and emergency management organizations that represent practitioners in the field of radiation readiness. This includes state and local public health practitioners, elected officials at the sate and local level, and first responder and first receiver groups. |
NARR | Website | Clinicians, Public Health Professionals, First Responders, Medical Examiners |
| Public Health Planning for Radiological and Nuclear Terrorism This activity offers proactive education on the most up-to-date information on state and local public health emergency response planning for radiological and nuclear terrorism incidents. | CDC | Website | Public Health Professionals, First Responders |
| Video: Screening People for External Contamination: How to Use Hand-held Radiation Survey Equipment
An 18 minute skills training video that demonstrates how to screen people for external contamination using a hand held Geiger Mueller Detector. |
CDC | Video | Clinicians, First Responders |
| Screening People for External Contamination: How to Use Hand-Held Radiation Survey Equipment
A video demonstration of how to manually screen people for radiation contamination. |
CDC | Video | Clinicians, First Responders |
| Population Monitoring in Radiation Emergencies: A Guide for State and Local Public Health Planners – First Edition, August 2007
The first edition of this planners guide presents an introduction to population monitoring in radiation emergencies for public health officials and emergency preparedness planners at the state and local levels. |
CDC | Public Health Professionals | |
| Training: Community Reception Center (CRC) Overview
A training video providing an overview of CRC operations. |
CDC | Website | Clinicians, Public Health Professionals, First Responders |
| Community Reception Center Simulation Tool for Evaluation and Planning (CRC-STEP)
CRC-STEP is designed to help emergency planners determine the best process flow, resource utilization, and staffing for community reception center (CRC) operations in a radiation emergency response. |
CDC | Website | Clinicians, Public Health Professionals, First Responders |
| Japan Incident – CDC Recommendations for Public Health Follow-Up of Travelers
From 2011: A description of follow-up with travelers identified as contaminated with radioactive mateiral by customs and border protection at US ports of entry. |
CDC | Clinicians, Public health professionals | |
| Japan Incident– Epidemiology Form for Public Health Follow-Up of Travelers
From 2011: A form to follow-up with travelers and obtain consent in better understanding the results of screening for radioactive materials as a result of being in Japan during the incident at Fukushima Daiichi, Japan in March 2011. |
CDC | Clinicians, Public health professionals | |
| Japan — CDC Revised Recommendation to Radiation Control Health Physics Staff
From 2011: A revised group of recommendations for follow-up assessment of contaminated travelers by radiation control health physics staff. |
CDC | Clinicians, Public health professionals |