Webinar: Food Safety and Mold

Loss of power, excess moisture and standing water are common problems that exist as a result of natural disasters. During the webinar, get tips for determining safety of food after a power loss as well as information on understanding how to deal with mold in your child care program

Healthy Homes Basics App

US Dept of Housing & Urban Development The Healthy Homes Basics app, from HUD’s Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes offers practical how-to guidance on how to have a safe and healthy home, right at your fingertips. The app offers introductory information and guidance for consumers by teaching the “Principals of a Healthy Home”. Roszak served as the project lead for the app design and was the main interface between HUD and the app designer, Mobomo.

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Community Health & Shale Development

Developed for local public health officials, in collaboration with Shell Oil Corporation and RESOLVE, this guidebook provides information and guidance on the health issues that could accompany shale energy development.

Hurricane Preparedness with Sesame Street

During this one hour video, Andrew Roszak and the team from Sesame Street discuss preparing families for hurricanes. Roszak also discusses the public and environmental health consequences following hurricanes.

Contamination by Radioactive Material: Legal Preparedness

This document, developed in collaboration with the US Centers for Disease Control and Preventions’ National Center for Environmental Health, Radiation Studies Branch and Public Health Law Program examines the state and local legal authorities related to the response to and recovery from incidents in which members of the public become contaminated or potentially contaminated with radioactive material.

Puerto Rico's children need recovery funds

In this opinion piece, Roszak discusses the current status of the situation post hurricane in Puerto Rico and explores why supplemental funding is needed.

Emergency Preparedness Manual

Released in September of 2018, this emergency preparedness manual was developed for the National Center on Early Childhood Health and Wellness, for use in Head Start programs throughout the United States. through a collaboration with Roszak's emergency preparedness team at Child Care Aware of America and the American Academy of Pediatrics. A supplemental training program, with PowerPoint presentations was also developed.

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Domestic Preparedness Podcasts

Domestic Preparedness Advisor Andrew Roszak serves as host for the Domestic Preparedness Podcast Series, available at:
Numerous topics are available, including Protecting Children in Disasters, Protecting Food, Air and Water: Environmental Health, Hurricane Recovery - The Price of Paradise, Pandemic Influenza: Advice and Suggestions from an Expert.

Flint Water Crisis: A Firsthand Account

Roszak was chosen to moderate this important session at the National Association of Environmental Health’s Annual Education Conference and the US Dept of Housing and Urban Development’s Healthy Homes Conference. The session examined the events that lead to the tragic exposure of Flint’s residents to lead through the public drinking water system.

Violence and Active Shooter

Andrew secured support from the Ohio Child Care Resource & Referral Association, Child Care Aware of Kansas, and Child Care Aware of Virginia, which allowed him to pilot the active shooter training for child care providers course that he developed to nearly 500 child care providers. The training was featured as the lead story on several local news stations, including the Toledo ABC news, the Topeka NBC news, Kansas City CBS news, and the Wichita CBS news.