The planning, coordination, and response to threats to public health, such as infectious disease outbreaks, foodborne illnesses, and natural disasters.
Emergency Management: This topic involves planning, coordinating, and managing resources to respond to emergencies, such as natural disasters, terrorist attacks, and disease outbreaks.
Surveillance and Disease Investigation: Public health officials engage in active surveillance and disease investigation to identify outbreaks and potential bioterrorism events.
Risk Assessment and Risk Communication: Risk assessment is the process of analyzing potential risks and hazards to public health, while risk communication involves the dissemination of information about risks to the public.
Health Care Infrastructure and Capacity Building: This topic involves developing and maintaining public health systems, including healthcare infrastructure and capacity building, to prevent and respond to public health emergencies.
Biosurveillance and Biosecurity: Biosurveillance is a system that monitors and detects early warning signs of infectious diseases, while biosecurity aims to prevent the intentional or accidental release of biological agents.
Biodefense and Biothreats: This topic covers measures and strategies aimed at preventing, detecting, and responding to bioterrorism attacks, including the use of biothreat agents.
Pandemic Influenza Planning: Pandemic influenza planning focuses on strategies that help prevent or mitigate the spread of infectious diseases such as influenza.
Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) Threats: This topic covers measures and strategies aimed at preventing, detecting, and responding to chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear threats.
Disaster Mental Health: This topic focuses on addressing the emotional and psychological needs of individuals affected by disasters and emergencies.
Emergency Communications: Effective emergency communication is critical in public health preparedness to disseminate information, coordinate response efforts, and warn the public about potential health threats.
Public Health Laws and Regulations: Understanding public health laws and regulations is essential in preparedness planning to ensure compliance with national and international regulations.
Quarantine and Isolation: Quarantine and isolation are measures to protect public health during infectious disease outbreaks, disasters or other emergencies.
Environmental Health: Environmental health is the study of how environmental factors affect human health and well-being, which is critical to preparedness planning as environmental conditions can have profound effects on public health.
Emergency Operations Centers: Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs) are command centers that oversee emergency management activities, including public health preparedness, during disasters or other emergencies.
Incident Command System: The Incident Command System (ICS) is a standardized approach to emergency management that provides a consistent, integrated framework for coordinating response activities across multiple agencies and jurisdictions.
Pandemic Preparedness: Strategies, protocols, and resources developed to prepare healthcare systems and communities for an outbreak of infectious disease.
Emergency Response Planning: The development of plans and protocols to respond to emergencies and natural disasters, such as hurricanes or earthquakes.
Bioterrorism Preparedness: Planning and preparing for a potential bioterrorism attack, including the development of methods to identify, contain and manage an outbreak.
Chemical Preparedness: Developing methods to identify, contain and manage a chemical attack or hazardous materials incident.
Radiation Preparedness: Preparedness for a radiological event, including the development of methods to detect and respond to a nuclear or radiological incident.
Disaster Preparedness: The development of plans and protocols to respond to natural disasters, such as floods, hurricanes, or earthquake; the creation of methods for communication within defined emergency channels.
Mass Casualty Management: Preparedness for mass casualty events, including the development of procedures to treat, triage, and manage a high volume of patients in a healthcare setting.
Surveillance and Epidemiology: Utilizing data and public health surveillance systems to identify emerging health threats, develop plans to respond, and track the progress of outbreaks.
Health Communication and Education: Developing and communicating public health messages, and developing communication plans to educate the public and other stakeholders about health emergencies.
Access and Functional Needs Preparedness: Preparing for those with disabilities, those who are elderly or have access and functional needs.
Medical Countermeasures and Non-Pharmaceutical Preparedness: Preparing for events with limited resources by developing methods to utilize specific medical countermeasures and non-pharmaceutical methods.
Continuity of Operations: Developing methods of continuity planning to ensure that critical functions of public health and healthcare systems are maintained during an emergency.