Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public Health Emergency Preparedness (ASPHEP)
Office of State and Local Preparedness
Key Personnel
Cross-Cutting Critical Benchmarks for Bioterrorism Preparedness Grants: FY2004 Update
Charged with coordinating all HHS activities related to bioterrorism and public health preparedness, the staff works closely with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) grant programs.
In FY2003, the states, territories, and four cities received more than $1 billion for bioterrorism preparedness and in FY2004, an additional $1.4 billion will be awarded to these same jurisdictions will be awarded through the CDC and HRSA Cooperative Agreements. Of this $1.4 billion, the CDC will award $870 million for Public Health Preparedness and HRSA will award $498 million for Hospital Preparedness - an increase of over $350 million from last year.
The CDC program focuses on a number of critical aspects of public health infrastructure. It seeks to improve disease surveillance and epidemiology, assure readiness at the state and local level for distribution of pharmaceuticals and vaccines, expand laboratory capacity, strengthen the Health Alert Network and risk communication, enhance education and training programs, and support smallpox planning.
As states and local communities fortify their public health functions, HRSA's hospital preparedness program seeks to substantially expand our healthcare system's capacity to respond to a bioterrorism event or other public health emergency.
Last revised: June 15, 2004
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