Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response

Division of Emergency Operations

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

CDC Response ActivitiesCenters for Disease Control and Prevention

Office of Public Health Preparedness and ResponseDivision of Emergency Operations

Strategic Focus

DIRECTOR’S INTENT

Use the principles of the incident management system tomanage CDC’s resources to support public health activities,events, and exercises in coordination with internal partners andexternal stakeholders.

Assist with the deploymentof assets, gather and disseminate information for public and scientific communities.

VISION:

To be recognized as CDC's national center for public health preparedness and emergency response.

MISSION:

DEO provides CDC's core incident management structure to coordinate and execute preparedness and response activities.

Mission Essential Tasks

Maintain and provide, 24/7/365, a single point of information entry concerning public health threats and events

Maintain situational awareness and alert CDC and HHS leadership Analyze, synthesize, and summarize all operationally relevant

information for incidents Establish and maintain effective communications and coordination with

partners Provide logistical support Coordinate CDC’s incident management training and staffing

Emergency Management Program (EMP)

• A single, integrated program where emergency management principles and public health practice intersect

• Administered by the OPHPR’s Division of Emergency Operations

• Focused on prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery activities

• Pulls expertise from CDC centers, institute, and offices as needed during the management of emergencies

ProcessesTrained Staff

Facilities

EMP

Progress of Emergency Management

What have we done?• Establishing CDC’s preparedness and response

network by developing CDC’s Emergency Management Program

What are we doing?• Expanding CDC’s Emergency Management Program

What is on the horizon?• Scaling-up actionable emergency management

2002 -- 2012

2013 -- 2023

2024 -- 2034

CDC’s Unique Response Capability

Epidemiology and surveillance

Laboratory

Public health expertise Strategic National Stockpile Select Agency Program Quarantine and community

mitigation Public health preparedness and

state readiness

Operations Branch FunctionsAnalyze, synthesize and summarize all operationally relevant information for incidents

Coordinate CDC’s response activities 24/7/365

Provide audio-visual system support to the CDC EOC

Triage phone calls to CDC experts

Inform decision makers

Logistics Support Branch Functions

Provide logistics planning support

Coordinate and track specimen, supply, and equipment shipments

Coordinate all CDC medical evacuation missions and air logistics missions

Procure and manage supplies in response to emergency deployment operations

Manage property accountability

Plans Branch Functions

Develop and coordinate individual, staff, and collective training requirements for response plans

Develop, coordinate, and publish CDC’s All-Hazards planning for response

Design, schedule, develop, and conduct CDC’s exercises of the all-hazards plans

Maintain response event documentation

Provide effective analytical after action reports and improvement plans for the agency’s exercise and response operations

Develop, coordinate, and public contingency plans

Emergency Risk Communication Branch

Lead the Joint Information Center (JIC) in CDC’s Emergency Operations Center

Leads agency-wide emergency risk communication planning and preparedness activities

Manage emergency information clearance process

Liaison to federal interagency public affairs group (ESF 15)

Coordinate cross-agency communication activities

Gather and summarize critical information CDC programs and external partners

Collect, validate, and analyze information critical to disasters

Establish information collection activities

Provide incident information consolidation as requested

Situational Awareness Team Develop and disseminate

geographical information system products

Gather and summarize critical information CDC programs and external partners

Collect, validate, and analyze information critical to disasters

Establish information collection activities

Provide incident information consolidation as requested

Emergency Personnel Staffing Team

Management of field and incident management system personnel

Coordinate with readiness and deployment groups within the agency

Coordinate with incident management, program, and agency leadership

Maintain and report about staffing statistics

Plan and process awards for service in emergency response

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