Expert Quote

"The world is now in the gravest possible danger of a (bird flu) pandemic."
-World Health Organization (WHO) regional director Shigeru Omi

12. Winnebago County Health Department's Board of Health and the Oshkosh Board of Health Role

In 1918, the Oshkosh Board of Health played a vital role in enforcing the banning of public gatherings, setting up an isolation hospital, closing schools etc. If a pandemic were to occur today, who serves on the Oshkosh Board of Health?  Have they created an Oshkosh flu Plan? What role with the Winnebago County Health Department's Board of Health play in creating a pandemic flu plan? List all Board of Health members.

Oshkosh Community Pandemic Flu Questions

The plan is divided into 12 sections

  1. Individual preparedness (stockpiling food, water, masks, medicines, miscellaneous)
  2. Create an emergency workforce team (who will be on this team)
  3. Role of the Media (educating the community)
  4. Community Communication (e.g. moving goods and services)
  5. Quarantine measures /Prevention/Travel/Curfews/Crime Prevention
  6. Public gathering policies
  7. Hospitals
  8. Pharmacies/Health Plans/Stockpiling Antiviral Drugs
  9. Long-term care, including nursing home residents and elderly living alone
  10. Vaccines
  11. City Issues (garbage collection, electricity, water treatment, burial procedures, business plans)
  12. Oshkosh Board of Health Role