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2015 National Snapshot of Public Health Preparedness
From the Executive Summary: "This report presents a snapshot of public health preparedness and response activities during 2013 and 2014. Information on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and its Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (PHPR), as well as performance data for Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) cooperative agreement awardees, are highlighted throughout. Some of the key accomplishments are: 1) Due in large part to PHEP funding and other preparedness investments, the nation is better prepared to prevent and respond to public health emergencies now than before the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks; 2) Over the past 3 years PHEP awardees have improved capacity in nearly all high priority public health preparedness capabilities; 3) During 2013,131 CDC field staff were assigned to 50 different PHEP awardee locations. These staff filled critical roles in epidemiology, medical countermeasure management, and technical assistance and were prepared if called upon to assist during public health emergencies; and, 4) PHPR improved collaborations with federal partners, such as the Department of Health and Human Services' Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response; state and local public health departments; nongovernmental organizations; and other countries to prevent and respond to public health emergencies."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response
2015
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Preparing for Ebola: What U.S. Hospitals Can Learn From Emory Healthcare and Nebraska Medical Center
This presentation is a "Clinician outreach and Communication Activity (COCA) Webinar" from October 14, 2014. Presenters were Steve Redd, Senior Advisor of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Ebola Response, Bruce S. Ribner, Director of Emory Healthcare's Serious Communicable Diseases Unit, Alexander P. Isakov, director of Section of Prehospital and Disaster Medicine of Emory Healthcare, Phillip W. Smith of University of Nebraska Medical Center's Biocontainment Unit, and Angela Hewlett, Associate Director of the University of Nebraska Medical Center's Biocontainment Unit. Topics presented were related to response and preparedness for Ebola virus patients and contaminated biological samples.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response
2014-10-14
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'Division of Strategic National Stockpile (DSNS) Program Review': A Report from the Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC)
From the Summary: "The Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR; previously known as the Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response, or COTPER) Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC) asked six logistics and preparedness experts to convene and answer four questions aimed at improving Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) response to an aerosolized anthrax event. [...] This review will focus on the comparison of the current SNS 'hub and spoke' model for inventory storage and delivery versus the forward deployment and maintenance of assets under federal control, in the context of a CRI [Cities Readiness Initiative] inhalation anthrax-related event. [...] Although the hub-and-spoke vs. forward deployment review could apply to any type of threat agent, for the purposes of this review, the scope will focus on the inhalation anthrax scenario that would require prophylaxis of the potentially exposed populations within 48 hours."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response; United States. Department of Health and Human Services
Inglesby, Thomas V.; Ellis, Barbara Gray
2012-03-19
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2011 State-by-State Update on Laboratory Capabilities and Response Readiness Planning
"CDC has now published four preparedness reports to demonstrate how federal investments are improving the nation's ability to respond to public health threats and emergencies.6 This report is an update to CDC's 2010 state-by-state report; it presents available data that demonstrate trends and document progress in two important preparedness activities, laboratory capabilities and response readiness planning. These data do not represent all preparedness activities occurring in states and localities. As other data become available, they will be included in future reports."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response
2011-09-01?
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Public Health Preparedness: 2011 State-by-State Update on Laboratory Capabilities and Response Readiness Planning: An Update on CDC-Funded Preparedness and Response Activities in 50 States and 4 Cities
"Strong state and local public health systems are the cornerstone of an effective response to routine as well as large-scale and/or unexpected public health incidents. Public health departments have made progress in building and strengthening their preparedness and response capabilities. A summary of progress in laboratory capabilities and response readiness planning follows. [...] Laboratories identify disease agents, toxins, and other health threats found in clinical specimens, food, or other substances. Rapid detection and characterization of health threats is essential for implementing appropriate control measures that can help mitigate the impact of the threats. The ability to detect and characterize health threats relies on the availability of laboratory equipment, a trained workforce, accurate and consistent methods, and quick data-exchange systems."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response
2011-09
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National Strategic Plan for Public Health Preparedness and Response
"CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] provides technical assistance and resources to state and local public health agencies to support their efforts to build prepared and resilient communities. CDC provides subject-matter expertise and assistance for domestic and global surveillance, laboratory, occupational health and epidemiology functions, and health threats including anthrax, smallpox, influenza and other infectious diseases, food-borne illness, and radiation, among others. CDC's Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR) leads the agency's preparedness and response activities by providing strategic direction, support, and coordination for activities across CDC as well as with local, state, tribal, national, territorial, and international public health partners. In the decade since September 11th and the anthrax attacks, significant investments have been made in the nation's public health system to respond to all-hazard threats. Public health departments at all levels of government can now quickly staff public health emergency operations centers; there is improved proficiency in laboratories testing for biological and chemical agents across the nation and the globe; and states can receive urgent disease reports and rapidly communicate information about health threats and related preventive and protective actions to the public."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response
2011-09
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Public Health Preparedness: Strengthening the Nation's Emergency Response State by State: A Report on CDC-Funded Preparedness and Response Activities in 50 States, 4 Cities, and 8 U.S. Insular Areas
This report "presents data on preparedness activities taking place at state and local health departments in 50 states, 4 localities (Chicago, the District of Columbia, Los Angeles County, and New York City), and 8 U.S. insular areas located in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. All are funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) cooperative agreement. [...] Section 1 of this report focuses on core public health functions and provides national-level data on preparedness activities in laboratories and response readiness. Section 2 includes 54 data fact sheets for each of the 50 states and 4 localities, followed by a description of preparedness progress and challenges in the 8 U.S. insular areas. Also included in this report are snapshots of preparedness and response activities and accomplishments occurring during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic. Activities conducted in 2008 and 2009, the primary timeframes for data in this report, helped build and strengthen capabilities in the states and at CDC that were essential for responding to the pandemic."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response
2010-09
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FY10 Hospital Preparedness Program Guidance
This document provides the details for the Hospital Preparedness Program Grant available in FY10. The HPP goal is to ensure awardees use these CA funds to maintain, refine, and to the extent achievable, enhance the capacities and capabilities of their healthcare systems, and for exercising and improving preparedness plans for all-hazards including pandemic influenza.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response
2010-07-14?
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Public Health Workbook: To Define, Locate, and Reach Special, Vulnerable, and At-risk Populations in an Emergency
"The capacity to reach every person in a community is one of the major goals for emergency preparedness and response.The goal of emergency health communication is to rapidly get the right information to the entire population so that they are able to make the right choices for their health and safety.To do this, a community must know what subgroups make up its population, where the people in these groups live and work, and how they best receive information.Although knowing this type of information might seem obvious, many jurisdictions have not yet begun the process to define or locate their at-risk populations. […] This document describes a process that will help planners to define, locate, and reach at-risk populations in an emergency.Additional tools are included to provide resources for more inclusive communication planning that will offer time-saving assistance for state, local, tribal, and territorial public health and emergency management planners in their efforts to reach at-risk populations in day-to-day communication and during emergency situations."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response
2010
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All-Hazards Preparedness Guide
"For over 60 years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been dedicated to protecting health and promoting quality of life through the prevention and control of disease, injury, and disability. Because of its unique abilities to respond to infectious, occupational, or environmental outbreaks or events, CDC also plays a pivotal role in preparing our nation for all types of public health emergencies. CDC's Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (PHPR) leads the agency's preparedness and response activities by providing strategic direction, support, and coordination for activities across CDC as well as with local, state, tribal, national, territorial, and international public health partners. CDC also helps these partners recover and restore public health functions after the initial response. Being prepared to prevent, respond to, and recover rapidly from public health threats can save lives and protect the health and safety of the public. Though some people feel it is impossible to be prepared for unexpected events, the truth is that taking preparedness actions helps people deal with hazards of all types much more effectively when they do occur.By reading this guide, you have taken the first step in securing your preparedness. You will learn that emergency preparedness requires attention not just to specific types of hazards but also to steps that increase preparedness for any type of hazard."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response
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