Planning Tools

Pandemic planning requires understanding the actions and priorities required to prepare for and respond to crisis. This page links to tools and software programs to assist state and local agencies in that preparation.

• FluAid (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
  
  Software designed to assist state and local level planners in preparing for the next influenza pandemic by providing estimates of potential impact specific to their locality.
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  Vietnamese (provided by the World Health Organization)
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• FluSurge (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
  
  Spreadsheet-based model which provides hospital administrators and public health officials estimates of the surge in demand for hospital-based services during the next influenza pandemic.
  
  Vietnamese (provided by the World Health Organization)
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• Instructions to Estimate the Potential Impact of the Next Influenza Pandemic Upon Locale Y (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
  Downloadable instructions for FluAid and FluSurge software; includes a template of a draft report.
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• FluWorkLoss (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
  
  Spreadsheet-based model that estimates the potential number of days lost from work due to an influenza   pandemic.
  
  
• Tabletop Exercises for Pandemic Influenza Preparedness in Local Public Health Agencies (Office of Public Health Emergency Preparedness (OPHEP))
  Provides customizable tabletop exercises to test the relationships between local public health agencies and their local health care delivery and governmental partners in response to a pandemic flu emergency. Prepared under contract to OPHEP by the Rand Corporation.
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• Facilitated Look Backs - A New Quality Improvement Tool for Management of Routine Annual and Pandemic Influenza (Office of Public Health Emergency Preparedness (OPHEP))
  Describes a tool that public health agencies can adopt to regularly "look back" at each routine annual influenza season and draw lessons from for pandemic influenza preparedness activities. Prepared under contract to OPHEP by the Rand Corporation.