Public Health Preparedness

• Function 1: Determine risks to the health of the jurisdiction
• Function 2: Strengthen community partnerships to support public health preparedness
• Function 3: Coordinate with partners and share information through community social networks
• Function 4: Coordinate training and provide guidance to support community involvement with preparedness efforts

• Function 1: Identify and monitor community recovery needs
• Function 2: Support recovery operations for public health and related systems for the community
• Function 3: Implement corrective actions to mitigate damage from future incidents

• Function 1: Conduct preliminary assessment to determine the need for activation of public health
• emergency operations
• Function 2: Activate public health emergency operations
• Function 3: Develop and maintain an incident response strategy
• Function 4: Manage and sustain the public health response
• Function 5: Demobilize and evaluate public health emergency operations

• Function 1: Activate the emergency public information system
• Function 2: Determine the need for a Joint Information System
• Function 3: Establish and participate in information system operations
• Function 4: Establish avenues for public interaction and information exchange
• Function 5: Issue public information, alerts, warnings, and notifications

• Function 1: Determine the public health agency role in fatality management
• Function 2: Identify and facilitate access to public health resources to support fatality management
  operations
• Function 3: Assist in the collection and dissemination of antemortem data
• Function 4: Support the provision of survivor mental/behavioral health services
• Function 5: Support fatality processing and storage operations

• Function 1: Identify stakeholders that should be incorporated into information flow and define
  information sharing needs
• Function 2: Identify and develop guidance, standards, and systems for information exchange
• Function 3: Exchange information to determine a common operating picture

• Function 1: Determine public health role in mass care operations
• Function 2: Determine mass care health needs of the impacted population
• Function 3: Coordinate public health, health care, and mental/behavioral health services
• Function 4: Monitor mass care population health

• Function 1: Determine medical countermeasure dispensing/administration strategies
• Function 2: Receive medical countermeasures to be dispensed/administered
• Function 3: Activate medical countermeasure dispensing/administration operations
• Function 4: Dispense/administer medical countermeasures to targeted population(s)
• Function 5: Report adverse events

• Function 1: Direct and activate medical materiel management and distribution
• Function 2: Acquire medical materiel from national stockpiles or other supply sources
• Function 3: Distribute medical materiel
• Function 4: Monitor medical materiel inventories and medical materiel distribution operations
• Function 5: Recover medical materiel and demobilize distribution operations

• Function 1: Assess the nature and scope of the incident
• Function 2: Support activation of medical surge
• Function 3: Support jurisdictional medical surge operations
• Function 4: Support demobilization of medical surge operations

Function 1: Engage partners and identify factors that impact nonpharmaceutical interventions
Function 2: Determine nonpharmaceutical interventions
Function 3: Implement nonpharmaceutical interventions
Function 4: Monitor nonpharmaceutical interventions

Function 1: Conduct laboratory testing and report results
Function 2: Enhance laboratory communications and coordination
Function 3: Support training and outreach

• Functions: This capability consists of the ability to perform the functions listed below.
• Function 1: Conduct or support public health surveillance
• Function 2: Conduct public health and epidemiological investigations
• Function 3: Recommend, monitor, and analyze mitigation actions
• Function 4: Improve public health surveillance and epidemiological investigation systems

• Function 1: Identify responder safety and health risks
• Function 2: Identify and support risk-specific responder safety and health training
• Function 3: Monitor responder safety and health during and after incident response

• Function 1: Recruit, coordinate, and train volunteers
• Function 2: Notify, organize, assemble, and deploy volunteers
• Function 3: Conduct or support volunteer safety and health monitoring and surveillance
• Function 4: Demobilize volunteers