Washington, DC, April 21, 2023—The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), the voice of the country’s nearly 3,000 local health departments, will hold the 2023 Preparedness Summit from April 24-27, 2023 in Atlanta, GA. More than 2,700 public health experts, healthcare leaders, and emergency management specialists are expected to attend the 2023 Preparedness Summit in-person and virtually.

The theme for the 2023 Preparedness Summit, Recover. Renew: Reprioritizing All-Hazards Preparedness, will provide an opportunity to revisit pressing issues and share resources, shape policies, and build skills to mitigate a variety of threats.

A limited number of complimentary registrations are available for the media. In-person or virtual attendance presents an opportunity for journalists to discover new sources, chart trends, and uncover story ideas.

WHAT: 2023 Preparedness Summit

WHEN: April 24-27, 2023

WHERE: The 2023 Preparedness Summit will be held at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta.

Hyatt Regency Atlanta

265 Peachtree Street NE

Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30303

As the nation continues to recover from the prolonged pandemic response and begins to define the endemic phase of COVID-19, natural disasters, emerging infectious diseases, terrorist threats, climate issues, and maintenance of all-hazards plans are now being reexamined.

Session topics will include preparedness capacity building, climate change, community resilience, COVID-19, health equity, medical countermeasures, Medical Reserve Corps, One Health, radiation, risk communications, and vaccination. Also, strengthening the public health workforce will be examined.

To learn more about the Preparedness Summit and to find the full schedule of events, please click here.

NACCHO encourages the media to join the conversation and monitor plenary sessions as they happen on Twitter. Conference highlights will be shared at https://twitter.com/prepsummit and with hashtag #Prep23. Highlights from the poster sessions will be shared at 1:00 PM ET on Tuesday, April 25, and Wednesday, April 26, from NACCHO’s Facebook account at https://www.facebook.com/NACCHOHQ/.

Media interested in attending the event should contact Phyllis Dickerson Johnson, Director of Communications at 202.595.1127 or [email protected].

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About the Preparedness Summit

The Preparedness Summit is the first and longest-running national conference on public health preparedness. Since its beginning in 2007, the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) has taken a leadership role in convening a wide array of partners to participate in the Summit; presenting new research findings, sharing tools and resources, and providing a variety of opportunities for attendees to learn how to implement model practices that enhance the nation’s capabilities to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters and other emergencies.

About NACCHO

The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) represents the nation’s nearly 3,000 local health departments. These city, county, metropolitan, district, and tribal departments work every day to protect and promote health and well-being for all people in their communities. For more information about NACCHO, please visit www.naccho.org.