Public Health Preparedness

icon_phpreparedness100 NACCHO’s preparedness work focuses on activities related to both practice and policy. NACCHO creates new tools and improves existing ones to help local health departments (LHDs) enhance their readiness to respond to public health emergencies and other disasters. NACCHO also serves as a conduit through which local input can reach and effect positive change on national initiatives.

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More than 1,500 local, state, and federal public health preparedness professionals will convene for the 4th annual Public Health Preparedness Summit Feb. 18-20 in San Diego.

Why should you be there?

To learn about the most current, evidence-based approaches to addressing challenges in public health emergency response;
To make new connections with colleagues from across the country;
To hear from top officials and experts in the field of public health preparedness such as Amanda Ripley, Senior Time Magazine Writer – Homeland Security and Risk; and
To escape the chill of winter in sunny San Diego!

Stories from the Field

Creating Partnerships: Working with Large Employers for Mass Dispensing

Yolo County Health Department (CA) as featured in the September edition of NACCHO's Preparedness Brief E-Newsletter.

Yolo County is a midsized urban/rural county in Northern California adjoining
Sacramento. Based on population, our goal in a public health emergency is to provide mass antibiotics or vaccinations as needed to 200,000 people in 48 hours. With a small pool of county and city employees to draw from and many of our staff living in other counties, we knew it would be a challenge to staff Point of Dispensing (POD) sites.

Related Resources

»	Preparedness Brief E-Newsletter
	Preparedness Brief, NACCHO's monthly public health preparedness e-newsletter, features announcements, events, resources and "Stories from the Field" relevant to today's public health preparedness professional. Sign up for the distribution list today!

»	Public Health Emergency Preparedness: Six Years of Achievement
	This report is the result of a collaborative effort among NACCHO, the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, the Association of Public Health Laboratories, and the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists. Comparing data collected by these associations since 2001, this report highlights achievements in local and state public health preparedness and describes how federal funding was leveraged to advance prevention, response, and recovery capacities. More »

»	Federal Public Health Preparedness Resources
	Find links to relevant public health preparedness information from federal sources including the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Department of Homeland Security. More »