Emergency Preparedness and Response

The Emergency Preparedness and Response program champions our Health Department’s readiness and efforts to mitigate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from a variety of public health threats, such as infectious diseases, natural disasters, biological, chemical, nuclear, and radiological events.

What We Do

• Develop and maintain public health emergency response plans and procedures including Community Disease Containment plans, Continuity of Operations Plan, Medical Countermeasures Distribution and Dispensing, and Public Health Emergency and Response plan.
• Prepare and conduct a variety of training and exercise scenarios to help our department and community respond to and recover from public health threats.
• Obtain and maintain mitigation, response and recovery equipment needed for emergencies.
• Facilitate and coordinate Public Health Department responses for public health emergencies and incidents with community members and stakeholders.
• Complete after-action reporting to identify areas for improvements while maintaining the identified strengths.

Our department’s Emergency Preparedness and Response program is part of and funded by the national Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) program and Cities Readiness Initiative (CRI).