Come learn more about the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) Student Chapter and how YOU can get involved

EVENT DETAILS

When: April 28, 2025

Time: 12pm - 1pm

Where: Sherman Hall, B Wing, room 354 (Conference Room)

Please RSVP: https://forms.gle/zQwb3eyuv5zWK6

• Free IAEM gear & giveaway

• Meet other students passionate about emergency management

• Learn about career paths in crisis response, climate resilience, public safety & more

No matter your major, emergency management needs your skills to drive real world impact!

The Emergency and Disaster Health Systems (EDHS) Professional and Continuing Education department (PACE) has the classes for you!

**Please choose the correct session for your skill level**

Morning Session: Saturday, April 27th from 10am – 12pm
BLS Healthcare Providers skills check class.

Intended for Healthcare Providers only

Afternoon Session: Saturday, April 27th from 1pm – 3pm
Heartsaver First Aid/CPR/AED skills check class.

Intended for lay rescuers, community members, non-healthcare providers, individuals, student organizations, department faculty & staff.

All are welcome!

TO REGISTER: (Last day to register for this session - April 19th)

Must register 5 days in advance of course dates using the Calendly link.

https://calendly.com/ehspace/umbc-dept-of-ehs-heartsaver-cpr-aed-first-aid-1

The skill trainings will be held on campus at 900 Walker Ave. (old courthouse building) in the main Emergency Health Services classroom, room 114. Enter through the front doors, turn right, and follow the signs to the department. (We are all the way in the back of the building!)

Please contact PACE at 410-455-3584 or email ehspace@umbc.edu with any questions.

The Emergency Health Services (EHS) Professional and Continuing Education department (PACE) has the classes for you!

**Please choose the correct session for your skill level**

Morning Session: Saturday, January 20th from 10am – 12pm
BLS Healthcare Providers skills check class.

Intended for Healthcare Providers only

Afternoon Session: Saturday, January 20th from 1pm – 3pm
Heartsaver First Aid/CPR/AED skills check class.

Intended for lay rescuers, community members, non-healthcare providers, individuals, student organizations, department faculty & staff.

All are welcome!

TO REGISTER: (Last day to register for this session - January 15th)

Must register 5 days in advance of course dates using the Calendly link.

https://calendly.com/ehspace/umbc-dept-of-ehs-heartsaver-cpr-aed-first-aid-1

The skill trainings will be held on campus at 900 Walker Ave. (old courthouse building) in the main Emergency Health Services classroom, room 114. Enter through the front doors, turn right, and follow the signs to the department. (We are all the way in the back of the building!)

Please contact PACE at 410-455-3584 or email ehspace@umbc.edu with any questions.

The Department of Emergency Health Services will be holding mini job fair Meet & Greets on Thursdays from 1:00pm - 3:00pm starting March 10th through April 28th. Located in the 3rd floor lobby of Sherman Hall, A wing.

Each week will feature up to three agencies looking to hire. This includes fire & EMS departments as well as critical care ambulance and air medical services.

Opportunities and information are available for students in Public Health, Biology, Pre-Med or Pre-PA, Nursing, or other health-related fields, but all UMBC students are welcome to come to meet the recruiters.

Check out our website for which companies are coming on which weeks. https://ehs.umbc.edu/umbc-mini-job-fairs/

To cap off this semester's informative and intriguing EHS seminar presentations and discussions, tomorrow's final seminar is being led by our own EHS Professor Diane Flint, who will be talking about public policy vs public administration, and how they affect EMS and health care at large.

• How does policy affect implementation?
  
• How does administration affect policy?
  
• How can we work with both to obtain the best outcomes for our public?

Wednesday, December 5, 2017 in Sherman Hall Rm 305, 3:00pm - 5:00pm. 

As always, if you want to view remotely and don't know how, please contact Kara Buckmaster for assistance (by 2:30pm, 12/05/17 please).

SPEAKER: Jeff Halverson, PhD, UMBC Department of Geography and Associate Dean of the Graduate School

TOPIC: Natural Disasters From A Geophysical And Human Geographical Perspective

Dr Halverson's deep knowledge of the relationships between disasters and human-geography interactions, will add to all of our understanding how to predict the kinds of consequences we can expect from various kinds of interactions between natural and man-made phenomena.

Be There!

I would suggest that on-campus students arrive a bit earlier than usual, given that it's likely that we will have a number of non-EHS visitors this time around.  

Off campus and you don't know how to log in to the simulcast?  Contact Kara Buckmaster.

This EHS grad seminar is a special one, covering a really important topic: the need for legal and safety protection for refugee women and children. As you probably know, there are scores of large refugee camps in different parts of the world, and, all too often, women and children are abused or worse, either in the camps or on their way to the camps. We are even seeing some of this here in the States, in the commercially staffed refugee detention centers on contract to ICE.

If you look at the refugee camps in Turkey, Lebanon, Hungary, Libya, Central African Republic, etc, human rights abuses against women and children are rampant. So, come and learn from our own students (Noor Abdel Rahman, Taylor Lutich, and Kara Buckmaster) about this important issue dogging the world's attempts to provide emergency health and humanitarian services for refugees in disparate parts of the world. Non-EMS students and faculty are welcome to attend.

John Warchal is an alumnus of our EHS undergraduate program, and holds a Master of Science degree from Johns Hopkins University.  He'll be talking on 11/1/2017 (Wednesday, 3:00pm-5:00pm in Sherman Hall, Room 305, A Wing) about the importance of using analytical methods in emergency preparedness and response decisions...which is one of the most powerful tools for breaking away from the old "well, we always did it this way" crowd. Much of what John has to share with us can be applied to many of the decisions we make, which affect the well-being and lives of others.   Be there!

LIVE LINK via BLACKBOARD:

https://us.bbcollab.com/guest/13876aa9beb44d42b1e7cfe5df3004f6