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Public Health Emergency Preparedness Cooperative Agreement Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)March 19th, 2019
Background: In terms of lives lost, suffering, economic damage, and the cost of public health responses 2018 was a costly year for public health emergencies. Throughout the year, state and local health departments responded to crises like wildfires, hurricanes, and outbreaks of hepatitis, measles, and other infectious diseases. Each of these required a coordinated public health response. The Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) cooperative agreement at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the main federal program that supports the work of health departments to prepare for and respond to all types of disasters, including bioterror attacks, natural disasters, and infectious disease outbreaks. PHEP grants support 62 state, territorial and local grantees to develop core public health capabilities, including in the areas of public health laboratory testing, health surveillance and epidemiology, community resilience, countermeasures and mitigation, incident manageme
