ASPR requires collaboration with state health departments and officials to ensure that state and local governments, communities, private sector entities, non-governmental organizations, academia, and...more
The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) is a staff division of the Office of the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). ASPR leads...more
The purpose of this FOA is to enhance the ability of local healthcare facilities and State entities to be able to safely transfer patients with confirmed or suspected high consequence infectious...more
1. Support and maintain a workgroup comprised of state and local emergency managers and ESF#8 directors. This workgroup should be designed to help engage stakeholders and customers to define and...more
Improved collaboration between ASPR and the state health departments (SHDs) to enhance national health security, foster community health resilience, and strengthen health care, public health, and...more
Improved collaboration between ASPR and the local health departments (LHDs) to enhance national health security, foster community health resilience, and strengthen health care, public health, and...more
This cooperative agreement with Project Hope, the publisher of Health Affairs, to strengthen emergency care delivery in the United States healthcare system through health information and promotion. ...more
Also known as the “Mission Zero Act (MZA)” provision, the goal is to build military-civilian partnerships (MCPs) that will improve the nation's response to public health &...more
On December 19, 2006, President George W. Bush signed the Pandemic and All Hazards Preparedness Act (PAHPA). PAHPA had broad implications for HHS’ preparedness and response activities. Among...more
SiMPACT ponders on the importance of data in philanthropy after an episode of the This American Life (#503 – I was Just Trying to Help), an episode which portrays an organization with a not-so conventional idea about charity.