DGMQ Project Outline

Division of Global Migration and Quarantine

Survey Methodologies

PROJECT:

2014 Ebola Global Migration Task Force (GMTF) Response After-Action Report (AAR) Survey

IMMEDIATE PURPOSE:

The CDC Global Migration Task Force (GMTF) has been engaging in prevention, mitigation, and response operations for the Ebola response since August 2014 until the present. This emergency response has been the most resource intensive operation to date; the CDC has deployed teams and individual staff domestically and internationally to assist with response efforts, including surveillance, contact tracing, data management, laboratory testing, and health education. The purpose of developing a survey instrument is to gather feedback from individuals who served in the Ebola response, to better inform our After-Action Report and Improvement Plan for GMTF, and improve overall emergency response processes for the future.

LONG-TERM OBJECTIVE:

Develop a “menu” of divisionally approved survey questions and scales to support DGMQ response evaluations. This collection of cleared material will be designed to assist in both standardizing and streamlining the AAR feedback and analysis process.

DESCRIPTION OF RESPONDENTS:

The respondent pool includes anyone who has served in a role for the GMTF during the 2014 Ebola Response. This respondents will be identified by using both GMTF historical and current response staffing roster maintained by the Operations Chief.

DATA COLLECTION METHOD:

The questionnaire will be disseminated using the survey feature on SharePoint

DATA ANALYSIS METHOD:

The SharePoint link that will be distributed via e-mail to the previous and current response participants. An activated feature on SharePoint will allow respondents to be kept anonymous; no personally identifiable information (PII) will be tracked or recorded when this feature is engaged. There will be a very limited number of individuals – limited to the response evaluation coordinator and the SharePoint administrator(s) – who will have access to the raw data. The aggregated data will be exported to Microsoft Excel to complete the analysis.