# IAFF Coronavirus and Infectious Disease Response Training

> **NIH NIH UH4** · INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FIRE FIGHTERS · 2020 · $200,000

## Abstract

The International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) proposes to continue its worker health and safety training program
to train workers, across multiple disciplines, within a 150-mile radius of DOE weapons complex facilities in order to
prevent work-related harm and improve worker-related health and safety. In alignment with the National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences Worker Training Program's (WTP) strategic plan, the International Association of Fire
Fighters (IAFF) seeks to conduct worker-based training to prevent and reduce exposure of emergency first responders and
other workers who are at risk of exposure to Coronavirus through their work duties. This proposal includes a series of
instructional train-the-trainer (TtT) modules to foster awareness of changes in the use of personal protective equipment for
fire fighters, EMTs and paramedics, to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic and to protect the health of those front-line
providers while serving the public. The modules will support the 32-hour course designed and integrated in online
webinars, virtual classrooms and formal classroom use and follow the standard process in collaboration with NIEHS.
Through this continued cooperative agreement, the IAFF will:
 1. Ensure our Nation's first responders and other workers who are at risk of exposure to Coronavirus through their
 work duties are protected and available to respond to emergencies.
 2. Using an evidence-based Train-the-Trainer curriculum that addresses the science of Coronavirus (clinical
 symptoms, mode of transmission, persistence in the environment, and treatment); infection control and worker
 protection (isolation/quarantine and PPE); working in the contaminated environment (sampling and
 decontamination); and behavioral health resiliency, exposures to COVID-19 will be reduced, first responders and
 other at risk workers will be able to be better prepared.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10149055
- **Project number:** 3UH4ES009759-28S2
- **Recipient organization:** INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FIRE FIGHTERS
- **Principal Investigator:** Elizabeth Marie Del Re
- **Activity code:** UH4 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $200,000
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2020-06-03 → 2020-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10149055

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10149055, IAFF Coronavirus and Infectious Disease Response Training (3UH4ES009759-28S2). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10149055. Licensed CC0.

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