We’re excited to share that Kara Marshall, Program Manager with UTMB’s SPECTRE program, was recently featured on Sam Houston State University’s Institute for Homeland Security podcast, Structurally Sound, for a conversation about special pathogens and mass casualty incident (MCI) training.
During the episode, Kara discusses the importance of training and the challenge of measuring its effectiveness. The conversation explores how organizations can use exercises and evaluation to better understand whether their training is achieving its intended goals and supporting preparedness.
Preparedness is an ongoing effort, and opportunities to exercise, evaluate, and learn are an important part of building and maintaining response capabilities. Kara’s conversation offers a look at some of the approaches used to think critically about training and preparedness for high-consequence events.