Public Health Emergency Preparedness Program
The Public Health Emergency Preparedness Program plans response efforts to large-scale public health incidents. These emergencies could include a pandemic, anthrax attack, smallpox outbreak, earthquake, severe winter storm, and more. Preparedness efforts are primarily funded through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They focus upon the following capabilities:
- Community Preparedness
- Community Recovery
- Emergency Operations Coordination
- Emergency Public Information and Warning
- Fatality Management
- Mass Care
- Medical Countermeasure Dispensing
- Medical Material Management Distribution
- Medical Surge
- Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions
- Public Health Laboratory Testing
- Public Health Surveillance and Epidemiological Investigation
- Responder Safety and Health
- Volunteer Management
Preparedness plans, responder trainings and exercises are coordinated with partner agencies in Davis County, the Northern Region, and state-wide. Partner agencies include:
- Local Fire/EMS and Law Enforcement agencies
- Davis Hospital and Medical Center
- Lakeview Hospital
- Hill Air Force Base
- Utah’s 12 Local Health Departments
- Utah Department of Health
- Davis School District
- Citizen Corps
- Local Emergency Planning Committee
- Northern Utah Health Care Coalition
- Northern Utah Region Homeland Security
- Northern Utah Incident Management Team
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