Team Charge

  • Provide regular and ongoing surveillance of illness data (including contagious disease and foodborne illness) on campus and in the state and local community
  • Provide initial response to outbreaks in a timely manner and activate standard of care for students, faculty or staff who may be affected
  • Bring together university partners for rapid response (implementation of care, swift notification of affected others, initiating quarantine/isolation procedures, mitigation cleaning, testing, vaccine clinics, and other necessary procedures)
  • Implement mitigation measures that may be mandated or recommended by local, state or national public health entities
  • Periodically review and update university emergency response protocols
  • Recommend university mitigation policies to Senior Staff
  • Support and advise the Emergency Operations Center, if it is activated in the event of a pandemic or infectious disease outbreak

Team Members

Jana Lynn Patterson, Co-Chair: Associate Vice President of Student Life and Dean of Student Health and Well-being

Dr. Terry Le, Co-Chair: University Physician and Medical Director of Student Health Services and Faculty/Staff Health and Wellness Clinic