Public Health Emergency Preparedness

Objective

Public health emergency preparedness and response capacity continues to be tested at national, state, local, tribal, and territorial levels. Since 9/11, CDC's Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) program has collaborated with state, local, and territorial health departments to prepare and plan for emergencies, resulting measurable improvement. However, ongoing risks related to chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear incidents as well as cyberattacks further underscore the importance of updating and modernizing jurisdictional all-hazards public health preparedness and response strategies to address emerging technologies and new 21st century threats. To address these challenges, PHEP recipients must increase or maintain their levels of effectiveness across six key public health preparedness domains and focus efforts on strengthening preparedness and response capabilities to prevent or reduce morbidity and mortality. As additional public threats continue to emerge, CDC must ensure that state, local, tribal, and territorial public consequences of incidents or events whose scale, rapid onset, or unpredictability stresses the public health system. The program provides fiscal resources to state, local, and territorial public health agencies to advance their ability to demonstrate response readiness by the end of the period of performance (performance period). This announcement also includes greater emphasis on programmatic, fiscal, and administrative accountability. Although the PHEP cooperative agreement is no longer aligned with the Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP) within a single funding opportunity, these two distinct federal preparedness programs must continue to be organized to enhance jurisdictional coordination and collaboration between the public health and health care systems.

Who Can Apply

• U.S. State Government (including the District of Columbia)
• U.S. Territory (or Possession) Government (including freely-associated states)
• Department or Agency of a U.S. State Government
• Department or Agency of a U.S. Territorial Government
• Federally Recognized Indian/Native American/Alaska Native Tribal Government
• Indian/Native American/Alaska Native Tribal Government (Other than Federally Recognized)
• Tribally Designated Housing Authority
• Municipality or Township government (inclusive of cities, towns, boroughs (except in Alaska), and villages)
• County Government (inclusive of boroughs in Alaska, parishes and other governmental entities with geographic regional control and authority)

Government Organizations: -States: 50 -Local governments or their bona fide agents: (4) Chicago, Los Angeles County, New York City, and Washington, D.C. -Territorial governments or their bona fide agents and freely associated states: (8) American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Puerto Rico, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Republic of Palau, and U.S. Virgin Islands

Who Benefits

• State
• Local
• U.S. Territories

All State, County, and Local Health Departments.

Assistance Types

• Cooperative Agreement

Program Contact

lqt3@cdc.gov
(404) 639-0812