welcome to virtual world preparedness planning!

The University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health CADE (Center for the Advancement of Distance Education) has created a group of Public Health Preparedness Islands in the virtual world called "Second Life". The virtual island chain offers a variety of urban and rural environments with customized buildings, objects, and scripting tailored to emergency scenarios ranging from pandemic influenza to bio-terrorism and dirty bombs. Training is being provided to local health department staff to conduct a wide variety of virtual operations in support of Planning, Training, and Evaluation.

planning scenarios

  • •  RSS
  • •  Drop sites
  • •  PODS
  • •  Surge capacity
CADE staff develop and run preparedness planning workshops for state and local health agencies using virtual world technology.