Emergency Operations and Incident Command

Below are guidelines and courses to help healthcare providers and frontline workers to implement best standards of care for COVID-19 patients with limited resources at hand, and provide information on how to deal with COVID-19 for the general population during natural disasters.

Guidelines and Research

Implementing Crisis Standards of Care: Allocating Scarce Resources

  • Languages: English, Hindi
  • For: Community Health Workers, Nurses, Physicians, Respiratory Therapists, Healers, Hospital and Health Systems, Public Health Organizations
  • Created by: Society of Critical Care Medicine

American Red Cross: Preparing for Disaster during COVID-19

  • Language: English
  • For: General population, Community Health Workers, Nurses, Physicians, Respiratory Therapists, Healers, Hospital and Health Systems, Public Health Organizations
  • Created by: American Red Cross

FEMA COVID-19 Emergency Management Best Practices

  • Language: English
  • For: Community Health Workers, Nurses, Physicians, Respiratory Therapists, Healers, Hospital and Health Systems, Public Health Organizations
  • Created by: FEMA. Updated: 2/23/2021

CDC: Emergency Preparedness and Response

  • A compilation of the guidelines for emergency preparedness and response by CDC.
  • Languages: English, Spanish
  • For: Community Health Workers, Nurses, Physicians, Respiratory Therapists, Healers, Hospital and Health Systems, Public Health Organizations

Created by: Center for Preparedness and Response, CDC. Updated: 5/20/2021

Courses and Training Materials

Basic Emergency Care (BEC) Course

Self-guided training course with presentation slides and a practice manual for frontline healthcare providers who manage acute illness and injury with limited resources.

  • Languages: English, Spanish
  • For: Community Health Workers, Nurses, Physicians, Respiratory Therapists, Healers
  • Created by: WHO and ICRC. Updated: 10/30/2018

101 Operations and Management: Facilitator Guide

Guiding document outlines important considerations for public health emergency operations and management with various tools and trainings to help those in charge of emergency operations

  • Language: English
  • For: Public Health Officials, Nurses, Physicians, Hospital and Health Systems, Public Health Organizations
  • Created by: WHO, CDC

*The resources for this section were reviewed by Johns Hopkins University student Shagufta Farheen, Research Associate Noor Zanial, and Faculty Tolbert Nyenswah on behalf of the Johns Hopkins India Institute COVID-19 Task Force Technical Working Group.