The UTMB Montgomery County Health Department hosts and participates in several exercises and training each year. The following are a few examples of trainings and exercises that MCHD sponsored in 2006 and 2007.

2007

Exercises conducted:

• Full-scale drive-flu flu vaccination exercise with community nurses and volunteers
  Montgomery College - The Woodlands, TX - October 2007
  
• Full-scale mass vaccination exercise with school and hospital nurses
  Peet Junior High School - Conroe, TX - August 2007
  
• Full-scale Bioterrorism Exercise with VSTA Volunteers and members of the public
  The Woodlands 9th Grade Campus - The Woodlands, TX - July 2007
  

Exercises attended:

• Tabletop Pandemic Influenza exercise with health departments and stakeholders from Health Service Region 6/5 South
  Lone Star Convention Center, Conroe, TX - August 2007
  

Trainings conducted:

• Introductory Public Health Volunteer Training
  Various locations throughout the county - Spring - Fall 2007
  
• Advanced Volunteer Staging and Training Area Training
  Conroe Recreation Center Gymnasium - July 2007
  

2006

Exercises conducted:

• Functional Pandemic mass vaccination exercise with school and hospital nurses
  Peet Junior High School - Conroe, TX - August 2006
  
• Tabletop Pandemic Influenza exercise with Conroe ISD Police
  Conroe ISD Police Headquarters - Conroe, TX - July 2006
  
• Functional anthrax exercise with local POD volunteers
  Montgomery College - Conroe, TX  - March 2006
  

Exercises attended:

• Tabletop Pandemic Influenza exercise with health departments and stakeholders from Health Service Region 6/5 South
  Moody Gardens, Galveston, TX - December 2006
  
• Tabletop Weapons of Mass Destruction exercise with members of the Houston-Galveston Area Council of Government
  Houston, TX - December 2006
  

Trainings Conducted:

• Strategic National Stockpile Point of Dispensing Operations training
  Montgomery College - Conroe, TX - March 2006
  
• POD Commander & Security Lead training
  Lone Star Convention Center - Conroe, TX - June 2006
  
• Pandemic Influenza Focus Group
  Lone Star Convention Center - Conroe, TX - October 2006
  
• Montgomery County Pandemic Influenza Forum
  The Woodlands, TX - December 2006