South dakota public health crisis response application - the south dakota department of health, office of public health preparedness and response seeks to enhance the state's ability to rapidly…

South dakota public health crisis response application - the south dakota department of health, office of public health preparedness and response seeks to enhance the state's ability to rapidly mobilize and respond to public health emergencies identified by the centers for disease control. South dakota seeks to be pre-identified and pre-approved to receive funding for HHS secretarial declared and non-declared public health emergencies of such magnitude, complexity, or significance that IT would have an overwhelming impact upon south dakota and exceed resources available to the state. Outcomes: program activities are designed to prevent or reduce morbidity and mortality from public health incidents whose scale, rapid onset, or unpredictability stresses the public health system and ensure the earliest possible recovery and return of the public health system to pre-incident levels or improved functioning. Short term outcomes include: earliest possible activation and management of emergency operations. Earliest possible identification and investigation of an incident/index case. Timely implementation of intervention and control measures. Timely communication of risk and essential elements of information by partners. Timely coordination and support of response activities with healthcare and other partners. Strategies and activities: sddoh will use phep capabilities to focus on the following strategies and conduct activities for the public health system: strengthen incident management for early crisis response. Strengthen jurisdictional recovery. Strengthen BIO-surveillance. Strengthen information management. Strengthen countermeasures and mitigation. Strengthen surge management.