Thursday, July 13, 2023 1:00 p.m. EDT THIS IS NOT A TACTICAL TRAINING COURSE The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), CISA Region 3 (District of Columbia, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia) invites you to join a two-hour security webinar. This webinar provides information and best practices that supports and enhances the emergency […]

This virtual offering will highlight key lessons learned, successes, and takeaways gathered from the 2023 stakeholder meeting of the Guam Department of Public Health and Social Services, the University of Guam CEDDARS, the government of Guam, and the disability community.

Hear from local jurisdictions that have successfully updated emergency plans to address this population and learn about focus group findings, tools, and resources to support this work.

This virtual offering will brief attendees about the significant increase in power outages and their impact on in-home life support users, explain current barriers for life support users when navigating and surviving power outages, and introduce the Louisiana Department of Health’s (LDH) Power Outage Partners pilot and the range of other approaches jurisdictions can employ […]

The webinar will focus on the implementation and successes of the AZ REACH program, which serves as a patient transfer system that can be quickly mobilized during a variety of public health events.

The objectives of the joint workshop include identifying strategies and promising practices for detecting new and emerging threats, enhancing public health infrastructure and workforce, improving legal and administrative preparedness, tackling increasingly concurrent emergencies.

Please join us for the second in a series of Extreme Heat Webinars hosted by FEMA Hazard Mitigation Assistance to discuss what extreme heat is, federal efforts to address the issue, and identify funding and mitigation projects to mitigate extreme heat. A recording of the webinar will be available on this page following the session. […]

The United States has maintained the elimination of measles, defined as the absence of continuous disease transmission for ≥12 months, since 2000. However, measles cases can occur when people travel to and from the United States, especially when travelers are unvaccinated or under-vaccinated against measles. Maintaining measles elimination in the United States requires continued investment […]

Background: To date, there has been a limited unified, all-hazards understanding of national-level hospital facility status, capacity, resources, and capabilities. Existing efforts have included the COVID-19/influenza/bed occupancy hospital data, ad-hoc surveys performed after incidents such as hurricanes, targeted surveillance systems for specific communicable diseases and/or specific types of care (ex., ED visits), and individual efforts […]