FOUR STATES, ONE TERRITORY TO DEVELOP STRATEGIES FOR PUBLIC HEALTH PREPAREDNESS, RESPONSE

摘要

Minnesota, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Washington, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands will participate in a National Governors Association (NGA) workshop where they will develop strategic action plans to implement during public health emergencies. Natural and human-caused public health disasters can overwhelm states' emergency response capabilities, which may result in widespread injury or loss of life. States not only have to plan and respond to diseases of national significance, such as Ebola and the Zika virus, but also confront other public health threats resulting from floods, earthquakes, water supply contamination, and other hazards.