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People Prepared for Emerging Health Threats

photograph of person at a subway stationCDC will contribute to national, state, and local efforts to prepare for and prevent public health disasters before they occur.

People in all communities will be protected from infectious, occupational, environmental, and terrorist threats.

When a disaster has occurred, CDC will be prepared to respond and support national, state, and local partners in responding in order to improve public health outcomes.

After response to a disaster has ended, CDC will assist national, state, and local partners in the recovery and restoration of public health functions.

Learn more at CDC's Emergency Preparedness and Response Web site.

Objectives

  1. Integrate and enhance the existing surveillance systems at the local, state, national, and international levels to detect, monitor, report, and evaluate public health threats.
  2. Support and strengthen human and technological epidemiologic resources to prevent, investigate, mitigate, and control current, emerging, and new public health threats and to conduct research and development that lead to interventions for such threats.
  3. Enhance and sustain nationwide and international laboratory capacity to gather, ship, screen, and test samples for public health threats and to conduct research and development that lead to interventions for such threats.
  4. Assure an integrated, sustainable, nationwide response and recovery capacity to limit morbidity and mortality from public health threats.
  5. Expand and strengthen integrated, sustained, national foundational and surge capacities capable of reaching all individuals with effective assistance to address public health threats.
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  • Page last reviewed: April 3, 2009
  • Page last updated: April 9, 2009
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