Call for Model Communities 2008
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), through its Terrorism Injuries: Information Dissemination and Exchange (TIIDE) Project, is examining the relationship between the Emergency Care Community and Public Health in relation to preparedness for mass casualty incidents. The Emergency Care Community is composed of emergency medical services, emergency departments, trauma centers, and acute care hospitals. The CDC TIIDE Project is seeking examples of "model communities" in which the relationship between the emergency care community and public health is well-established and operationally functional in terms of its capacity to respond to events that might produce large numbers of injuries.
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The National Response Framework
The National Response Framework went into effect March 22, 2008 and supersedes all previous versions of the National Response Plan. The National Response Framework is a guide that details how the Nation conducts all-hazards response– from the smallest incident to the largest catastrophe. This document establishes a comprehensive, national, all-hazards approach to domestic incident response. The Framework identifies the key response principles, as well as the roles and structures that organize national response. It describes how communities, States, the Federal Government and private-sector and nongovernmental partners apply these principles for a coordinated, effective national response. In addition, it describes special circumstances where the Federal Government exercises a larger role, including incidents where Federal interests are involved and catastrophic incidents where a State would require significant support. It lays the groundwork for first responders, decision-makers and supporting entities to provide a unified national response. In addition to releasing the NRF base document, the Emergency Support Function Annexes and Support Annexes are available on-line at the NRF Resource Center (www.fema.gov/nrf). The annexes are a total of 23 individual documents designed to provide concept of operations, procedures and structures for achieving response directives for all partners in fulfilling their roles under the NRF.
See: http://www.fema.gov/emergency/nrf/

The 2009 Integrated Medical, Public Health, Preparedness And Response Training Summit - April 4-8 2009 in Dallas, Texas.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is organizing this emergency preparedness training session. The training will be offered by individual program within HHS.