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HHS puts spotlight on itself in assessment of preparedness

Emergency Management Alert, November 6, 2007

This month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released The Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness and Response Act Progress Report, which examined the effectiveness of its emergency efforts since the passage of the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act (PAHPA) in December 2006. PAHPA

 established the position of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response
 provided new authorities for a programs, including the advanced development and acquisition of medical countermeasures
 called for the establishment of a quadrennial National Health Security Strategy 

We happened to notice this item about NIMS informing PAHPA's education and training program:

To support the development of public health preparedness and response curriculum for the CDC workforce, CDC has mapped 218 distinct public health responder roles to 24 CDC course offerings, thus creating National Incident Management System (NIMS) compliant, competency-aligned, custom curricula maps for each of the CDC public health responder roles. The CDC preparedness and response competencies are undergoing a re-validation study. The validated competencies, role-based NIMS training requirements, and the CDC curriculum will directly inform development of PAHPA's core competency-based training program directives.

Read more here.

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