CDC’s Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response (COTPER) released its inaugural report on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) activities in public health emergency preparedness.
The report, Public Health Preparedness: Strengthening CDC’s Emergency Response, outlines the key role CDC plays in preparing our nation to respond effectively to all types of hazards and provides an overview of the broad range of preparedness activities that received Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response (TPER) funding in Fiscal Year 2007.
The report also describes CDC’s significant preparedness accomplishments, the diversity of challenges that remain, and priorities for ongoing and future work. This report builds on the analysis of state and public health preparedness presented in the February 2008 CDC report, Public Health Preparedness: Mobilizing State by State.
Both reports are an important part of CDC’s overall focus on demonstrating results, driving program improvements, and increasing accountability for the nation’s investments in public health preparedness activities.
The full report is posted to the COTPER page on the CDC website and can be accessed directly at http://emergency.cdc.gov/publications/jan09phprep.