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• Hospital Personal Protective Equipment Planning Tool

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  "The Hospital Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Planning Tool is designed to help hospitals determine approximate minimum PPE needs based on special pathogen category and a number of facility specific variables. Calculators are included for Ebola Virus Disease/Viral Hemorrhagic Fever (EVD/VHF) as well as special respiratory pathogen such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome/Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (MERS/SARS), and for pandemic influenza. The tool does not provide information for less virulent pathogens. It is not intended as a clinical tool and should be used as a pre-incident planning tool and NOT during an outbreak."

  United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response
• Questions and Answers: The National Veterinary Stockpile and the 24 Hour Push Pack

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  "The National Veterinary Stockpile (NVS) program, coordinated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), provides support to States, Tribes, and Territories responding to damaging animal disease outbreaks. Within 24 hours, the NVS can provide veterinary countermeasures--including certain types of animal vaccines, antivirals, supplies, equipment, and response services--to animal health officials in affected areas. [...] One of the services NVS provides is shipping the '24 Hour Push Pack' when needed to combat a damaging animal disease outbreak. [...] A 24 Hour Push Pack is the initial shipment of supplies. The shipment will arrive within 24 hours of APHIS' approval to deploy resources. The requestor only needs to provide basic information about the situation, and we will coordinate the transport of supplies needed to respond to a damaging animal disease."

  United States. Department of Agriculture; United States. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
• Biosecurity for Pigs with Outdoor Access

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  "Pigs raised with outdoor access are more likely to be exposed to disease than pigs raised indoors, but there are simple biosecurity steps you can take to reduce the chance of disease entering your farm or spreading on your farm. Biosecurity is best when it becomes a part of your daily routine."

  United States. Department of Agriculture; United States. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
• Cutters, Boats, and Aircraft of the U.S. Coast Guard

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  "Professionally and proficiently operated by the men and women of the U.S. Coast Guard, the service's cutters, aircraft, and boats are standing by 24/7 to respond to safety and security threats in all weather conditions, day or night. As the lead federal agency in the maritime domain for law enforcement, incident response, homeland security, and disaster management, these specialized capabilities enable the Coast Guard to save lives, protect the environment, enforce federal laws on the high seas, and defend the homeland. In recent years, the Coast Guard realized several achievements with recapitalizing its assets. [...] Despite these milestones, fleet and aircraft recapitalization timelines lag service need, endangering the ability to be 'Always Ready' to prepare for, respond to, and quickly recover from major incidents. Moving forward, the Coast Guard will thoughtfully pursue and achieve a balanced and executable acquisition program for the deteriorating offshore, coastal, and inland assets."

  United States. Coast Guard
• Field Force Operations: Student Guide

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  This is the Student Guide associated with the Center for Domestic Preparedness Field Force Operations training.

  United States. Center for Domestic Preparedness
• Learning Internet of Things Security 'Hands-On'

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  "The Internet of Things (IoT) encompasses a wide range of processes: sensing, computation, communication, time, context, and data, to name only a few. How do all of these function as a system when using commercially available components that can be purchased from anywhere and at a low cost, and with little or no component pedigree available? To provide some practical answers to the these questions, we purchased components and created a set of small use cases to see how it all interoperated. We additionally wanted to ask what this means in terms of security, given many reports warning that IoT often lacks security features. Said another way, what could we glean from buying cheap parts, creating our own use cases with them, and learning how to exploit the vulnerabilities of those off-the shelf parts? The answer is a lot."

  National Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S.)

  Kolias, Constantinos; Stavrou, Angelos; Voas, Jeffrey M. . . .
• Building Sustainability in Demonstration Projects for Children, Youth, and Families

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  "This toolkit is designed to provide ideas and linkages to other resources that will enable demonstration sites to build on their success and sustain effective efforts beyond the life of the grant. It offers case study examples and a variety of tools communities may want to use as they consider plans for sustaining, replicating or 'scaling-up' reform efforts. This toolkit is one of several resources developed to strengthen and sustain the capacity of OJJDP [Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention] sites served by SITTAP [Systems Improvement Training and Technical Assistance Project] to achieve and sustain their systems reform goals and effectively address the related challenges. Other toolkits will address topics such as: Building Community Partnerships; Using Data Effectively; and Family-Centered, Culturally Competent Partnerships. These resources are also designed to educate and inform other communities and the field about how they can more effectively pursue community-based systems reform."

  Institute for Educational Leadership (Washington, D.C.)

  Kaufman, Martha
• Hazard Assessment Template

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  "This Internet tool helps to construct websites that identify potential hazards for specific locations. Website users identify the location by address, owner name, or by clicking in the map. The tool queries the hazards data to determine the hazards zone(s) for the location. Typical users include planning and permitting departments, residents applying for building permits, hazard mitigation officials, and natural resource planners. The tool's functionality can be set up for any location that has the required data and resources."

  Coastal Services Center (U.S.)
• Healthcare Coalition Recovery Plan Template

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  "Both the 2017-2022 Health Care Preparedness and Response Capabilities and HPP-PHEP [Hospital Preparedness Program - Public Health Emergency Preparedness] Cooperative Agreement Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) emphasize the role of HCCs [Health Care Coalitions] during the recovery phase of a disaster. This template provides general headers and descriptions for a sample pre-disaster HCC Recovery Plan that can be modified after an incident to become a disaster-specific plan. The resources used to develop this template include sample HCC plans, Health Care Preparedness and Response Capabilities, and the ASPR [Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response] Healthcare COOP & Recovery Planning Concepts, Principles, Templates, & Resources."

  United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response; United States. Department of Health and Human Services
• Health Care Coalition Response Plan [Template]

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  "Both the 2017-2022 Health Care Preparedness and Response Capabilities and HPP-PHEP [Hospital Preparedness Program - Public Health Emergency Preparedness] Cooperative Agreement Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) require Health Care Coalitions (HCCs) to develop a response plan. This template provides general headers and descriptions for a sample HCC Response Plan Template. The resources used to develop this template includes sample HCC plans and the Health Care Preparedness and Response Capabilities."

  United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response; United States. Department of Health and Human Services
• National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals [website]

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  This is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals webpage. This webpage includes the 'Fourth National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals, 2009' and subsequent updated tables to accompany the report. "The National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals (National Exposure Report) is a series of ongoing assessments of the U.S. population's exposure to environmental chemicals by measuring chemicals in people's blood and urine, also called biomonitoring. The Fourth National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals (Fourth Report) presents exposure data for 212 environmental chemicals for the civilian, noninstitutionalized U.S. population." Additional information on the webpage includes Chemical Factsheets, Chemical Selection, Biomonitoring Summaries, Frequently Asked Questions and more.

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• 'Manhattan District History' [website]

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  From the Department of Energy's Office of Science and Technical Information webpage on the 'Manhattan District History': "General Leslie Groves, head of the Manhattan Engineer District, in late 1944 commissioned a multi-volume history of the Manhattan Project called the 'Manhattan District History'. Prepared by multiple authors under the general editorship of Gavin Hadden, a longtime civil employee of the Army Corps of Engineers, the classified history was 'intended to describe, in simple terms, easily understood by the average reader, just what the Manhattan District did, and how, when, and where.' The volumes record the Manhattan Project's activities and achievements in research, design, construction, operation, and administration, assembling a vast amount of information in a systematic, readily available form. The 'Manhattan District History' contains extensive annotations, statistical tables, charts, engineering drawings, maps, photographs, and detailed indices. Only a handful of copies of the history were prepared. The Department of Energy's Office of History and Heritage Resources is custodian of one of these copies. The history is arranged in thirty-six volumes grouped in eight books. Some of the volumes were further divided into stand-alone chapters. Several of the volumes and stand-alone chapters were never security classified. Many of the volumes and chapters were declassified at various times and were available to the public on microfilm. Parts of approximately a third of the volumes remain classified. […] Following is a listing of the books, volumes, and stand-alone chapters of the 'Manhattan District History' with links to pdf [portable document format] copies."

  United States. Department of Energy. Office of Classification; United States. Department of Energy. Office of History and Heritage Resources; United States. Department of Energy. Office of Science Education and Technical Information

  Hadden, Gavin, 1888-1956
• Ebola Outbreak 2014: Information Resources [website]

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  This National Library of Medicine website is about the 2014 Ebola outbreak and contains various resources concerning the outbreak. The purpose of this page is to provide individuals and organizations with information about the disease and resources available to those providing local and international services. Information resources include the following: 1) U.S. Federal Organizations; 2) U.S. Organizations; 3) International Organizations; 4) Free Resources from Publishers for Medical Responders; 5) Biomedical Journal Literature and Reports; 6) Social Media; 7) Health Resources for the Public; 8) Multi-Language Resources; and 9) Disclaimer.

  National Library of Medicine (U.S.). Disaster Information Management Research Center; National Library of Medicine (U.S.). Specialized Information Services Division; United States. Department of Health and Human Services
• Department of Homeland Security: Blue Campaign [website]

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  This the Document Library webpage for the Department of Homeland Security's Blue Campaign against human trafficking: "Join the fight to end human trafficking by raising awareness of this heinous crime in your community. We have a wide variety of human trafficking awareness materials to help educate the public to watch out for signs and indicators of trafficking and report suspected trafficking to law enforcement."

  United States. Department of Homeland Security
• SAMHSA's Disaster Kit [website]

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  "This toolkit arms disaster recovery workers with materials that aid in responding effectively to the general public during and after a disaster, and in dealing with workplace stress. The toolkit includes SAFE-T [Suicide Assessment Five-Step Evaluation and Triage] practice guidelines, and suicide prevention wallet cards. It also includes guides for parents, caregivers, teachers, and others."

  United States. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
• Naloxone Training Toolkit [website]

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  This webpage offers several PDFs on Naloxone and its use in emergency situations as well as training resources.

  United States. Indian Health Service
• Shelters (Evacuation and Emergency) [website]

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  "Shelters provide a safe place for individuals affected by emergency events to reside. These shelters can provide a variety of services such as food, sleeping quarters, sanitation facilities, and medical care. Environmental health practitioners perform many critical functions in shelters; examples include conducting shelter assessments, testing drinking water supplies, conducting food safety inspections, and evaluating general safety and sanitation."

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Vector Control [website]

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  This webpage offers resources for environmental health practitioners. In particular, these resources focus on vector and pest issues to mitigate potential public health crises by means of insects or pests.

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• EPIC Webinars [website]

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  "EPIC [Emergency Partners Information Connection] conference calls & webinars bring together experts from CDC [Center for Disease Control] and partner organizations to discuss emergency-related health and communication topics."

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• First EMP Commission [website]

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  From the home page: "I am William R. Graham, former chairman of the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States of Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack, also known as the Congressional EMP Commission. From from 2001-2008 and again in 2017-2018, I was privileged to lead a team of our country's preeminent experts in the first public study of how EMP would affect civilian infrastructures. This website has been established to better disseminate the unclassified portion of our work. Concerned citizens deserve the opportunity to learn more about the existential EMP threat to our nation. Please ​take some time to click on the links below and read our reports."

  Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack
• Hazardous Materials [website]

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  This the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's website for Emergency and Terrorism Preparedness for Environmental Health Practitioners specifically dealing with Hazardous Materials. This section provides information on handling chemical releases.

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Water Security [website]

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  "Many changes have occurred recently in how our country protects its water supplies. Environmental health practitioners work daily to ensure that our water is safe through treatment, monitoring, and regulating activities. This section provides information on the protection of water supplies as well as on responding to contamination threats and incidents."

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Biologic and Infectious Waste [website]

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  "Controlling waste is an important part of public health, whether it's hospital infectious waste or household garbage. Improperly managed waste can create conditions that may have severe adverse effects on public health, safety, and the environment. Proper storage, collection, transportation, and disposal are key elements to controlling biologic and infectious waste. Environmental health practitioners help ensure that waste controls are in place and are maintained. The potential for a disease outbreak and the threat of terrorism increases when proper controls are not in place. This section contains general information on waste issues as well as new and emerging issues in biologic and infectious waste."

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Radiation [website]

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  "Environmental health practitioners play a unique role in identifying potentially harmful radiation exposures and examining health risks associated with these exposures. They are an important educational link to the public, providing information on a variety of radiation issues. This section provides guidance on planning for and responding to radiation issues and events."

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Intelligence Publications [website]

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  This is a website provided by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) containing intelligence-related publications.

  United States. Drug Enforcement Administration
• Tet Declassified

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  "In recognition of the 50th anniversary of the Tet Offensive--which took place on January 30, 1968--Director of National Intelligence Daniel R. Coats directed intelligence agencies to review their holdings to reveal previously classified details to the public. This page displays selected documents from the declassified volume as well as other contextual images, videos, and quotes which will be updated on a periodic basis. To view all declassified documents that have been released to date please click on the 'view documents' link. Additional items of interest can be found in the menu to provide greater context and insight into the Tet Offensive declassification effort. Intel.gov will serve as the hub for the release of Tet offensive declassified documents. However, some agencies have dedicated locations for their corresponding documents[.]"

  United States. Office of the Director of National Intelligence
• H. Rept. 115-273: Strong Visa Integrity Secures America Act, Report to Accompany H.R. 2626, August 8, 2017

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  "The Committee on Homeland Security, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 2626) to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 and the Immigration and Nationality Act to improve visa security, visa applicant vetting, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with an amendment and recommend that the bill as amended do pass."

  United States. Government Publishing Office
• How Climate Affects Community Health: A Social Media Toolkit for Engaging Local Communities in Climate and Health Adaptation

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  From the Document, "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), through the Climate-Ready States and Cities Initiative (CRSCI), is helping health departments identify likely climate impacts in their communities, potential health effects associated with these impacts, and the populations most likely to be at risk. [...] This social media toolkit was developed to support CRSCI grantees in their communication efforts. The toolkit includes suggested post copy, shareable graphics, videos and best practices. Tips on using this content to engage audiences and boost the reach of messages are included throughout the toolkit."

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Fueling an Epidemic: Inside the Insys Strategy for Boosting Fentanyl Sales (Report Four)

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  "During the height of the prescription opioid crisis in the United States, Insys Therapeutics, Inc., adopted and intensified sales and marketing techniques Purdue Pharma pioneered in the 1990s for OxyContin and applied them to Insys' powerful fentanyl drug Subsys. Like Purdue, Insys aggressively used speakers programs--in which the company paid physicians to discuss Subsys with colleagues--and compensation programs for sales representatives to boost sales for Subsys [...] This report also highlights the examples of Heather Alfonso, a nurse practitioner from Connecticut, and Dr. Steven Simon, a physician practicing near Kansas City, Missouri--two practitioners separated by geography but united in their high Subsys prescribing and receipt of substantial payments from Insys. These case studies demonstrate exactly how company executives motivated sales representatives to 'own' physicians through promises of compensation for both sides--and how these efforts in turn significantly affected patient treatment."

  United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
• United States Coast Guard Posture Statement with 2017 Budget in Brief and 2015 Performance Highlights

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  This document contains the United States Coast Guard Posture Statement, Budget-in-Brief for 2017, and Performance Highlights for 2015. From the U.S. Coast Guard Admiral's Statement: "Aligned with Department of Homeland Security and National strategies, Coast Guard strategies inform the 2017 budget request, ensuring continued Service to the Nation through fiscal stewardship and value to the American public. The Posture Statement provides the strategic context for our external environment and highlights my focus for Fiscal Year 2017. The Fiscal Year 2017 Budget illustrates the Coast Guard's dedication to strategically investing for the future while sustaining mission excellence. [...] The 2015 Performance Highlights demonstrate the enduring, multi-mission character of the Coast Guard and our intrinsic value to the United States."

  United States. Coast Guard