Operations Section
Section color: RED
The Operations Section is the one most likely to vary across agencies, as it depends on the size and scope of the agency and the range of staff expertise. For example, a small public health agency that is dependent upon a state field environmental health staff for inspections and investigations would not have a field environmental unit. It might, however, have the functional role of collecting environmental specimens if the state staff were some distance away and the agency decided that public health nurses or others might make the first round of specimen collection to save time.
Figure 6: Examples of some functional roles that may be utilized in the Operations Section
Text Version of Figure 6: Examples of some functional roles that may be utilized in the Operations Section
I. Operations Section Chief
A. Essential Public Health Services Branch Director
B. Field Response Branch Director
1. Medical Consultant
2. Field Response Coordinator
3. Environmental Unit Leader
a. Field Environmental Specimen Collectors
b. Environmental Field Technical Specialist
c. Technical Environment Liaison
4. Epidemiology Unit Leader
a. Human Epidemiology Technical Liaison
b. Epidemiology Investigation Site Coordinator
(1) Case Investigator
(2) Human Specimen Collector
(3) Diagnostic Testing Coordinator
5. Mass Care Unit Leader
a. Mass Care Operations Coordinator
(1) Flow Monitor
(2) Patient Educator
(3) POD Medical Consultant
(4) POD Security
(5) Registration
(6) Medical Screener
(7) Shelter Nurse
(8) Triage Nurse
(9) Vaccinator, Rx
(10)Vaccinator Assistant
C. Health Information and Public Education Branch Director
1. Hotline Unit Leader
a. Hotline Operator
b. Multilingual Hotline Operator
2. Information Distribution Unit Leader
a. Clerk
3. Media Facilitator
a. Media Telephone Operator
4. Public Information Writer
5. Public Relations Communications Specialist
6. Webmaster