The Capacity, Preparedness, and Resiliency Subcommittee is examining how states can prevent and mitigate natural disasters, public health crises and other emergencies that arise through better planning, preparedness and intergovernmental communication.

CPR Subcommittee Roster:

• • • Co-Chair Rep. Susan Concannon | Kansas
    • Co-Chair Assemblywoman Tremaine Wright| New York
    • Rep. Chad Caldwell | Oklahoma
    • Sen. Rhonda Fields| Colorado
    • Sen. Gayle Harrell | Florida
    • Rep. John Mizuno |Hawaii
    • Rep. Kimberly Moser | Kentucky
    • Brigadier General Brad Richy | Idaho
    • Commissioner Vicki Schmidt | Kansas
    • Rep. Denise Tepler | Maine
    • Cindy Ryu |  Washington

CAPACITY, PREPAREDNESS AND RESILIENCY Subcommittee Key Issues and Resources:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The CDC is the leading national public health institute of the U.S. The CDC’s Healthcare Preparedness and Response website features health care preparedness tools and resources to help communities plan for public health emergencies. The CDC, along with researchers from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, has developed a checklist that outlines action steps for medical and public health officials to assess and strengthen the resilience of the community’s health sector to high-consequence infectious disease, or HCID, events. For more information, visit cdc.gov.

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has several experts focused on health care preparedness for catastrophic events and health sector resilience. Recently, the school’s Center for Health Security produced a report, A Framework for Healthcare Disaster Resilience: A View to the Future (2018), which found that, while U.S. health care organizations are “reasonably well prepared for relatively small” events such as tornadoes and local disease outbreaks, they are less ready to respond to large-scale ones such as hurricanes and mass-casualty shootings and bombings. For more information, visit jhsph.edu.

National Academy for State Health Policy

The National Academy for State Health Policy, or NASHP, is a Washington, D.C.-based nonpartisan organization that identifies policy best practices in health care access and delivery across states. Many of its reports and briefs focus on the opioid crisis and tackling the emergence of infectious diseases. For more information, visit nashp.org.

National Health Security Preparedness Index

The National Health Security Preparedness Index, or NHSPI, is an annual assessment of the nation’s day-to-day community preparedness for managing health emergencies. The Preparedness Index analyzes more then 140 measures—such as hazard planning in public schools, monitoring food and water safety, wireless 9-1-1 capabilities, flu vaccination rates, and numbers of paramedics and hospitals—to calculate a composite score that provides the most comprehensive picture of health security and preparedness available. For more information, visit nhspi.org.

Pew Charitable Trusts

The Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit public policy organization conducts original research and works with experts in the field to help policymakers understand health care costs, access and delivery. Pew has conducted extensive research on the opioid crisis and effective state strategies to address it. For more information, visit pewtrusts.org.

National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University

The National Center for Disaster Preparedness at the Earth Institute works to understand and improve the nation’s capacity to prepare for, respond to and recover from disasters. NCDP focuses on the readiness of governmental and non-governmental systems; the complexities of population recovery; the power of community engagement; and the risks of human vulnerability, with a particular focus on children.  For more information visit: https://ncdp.columbia.edu/

National Emergency Management Association

NEMA, the professional association of emergency management directors from all 50 states, eight territories, and the District of Columbia, is the source of information, support, and expertise for people like you – emergency management professionals at all levels of government and the private sector who prepare for, mitigate, respond to, recover from, and provide products and services for all emergencies, disasters, and threats to the nation’s security.  For more information visit: https://www.nemaweb.org/