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H-CORE: Center for the HHS Coordination Operations and Response Element

HPOP: The Health Partner Ordering Portal

In 2023, H-CORE coordinated the enhancement of HPOP, incorporating feedback from users and lessons learned during responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and the mpox outbreak in the United States.


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What is H-CORE?

Built upon the successful interagency partnership established to combat COVID-19, H-CORE is a permanent, nimble organizing entity to ensure synchronization of medical countermeasure efforts across the federal government. Housed within the Administration for Strategic  Preparedness and Response (ASPR), H-CORE brings together government experts to partner with public health and industry stakeholders to fast-track solutions to health security threats. H-CORE leads the coordination of the acquisition and distribution of COVID-19 vaccine and therapeutic treatments. The organization also coordinated distribution of at-home COVID-19 tests and high-quality N95 masks.

H-CORE works in partnership with other entities across ASPR such as the Center for the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) and the Center for the ​Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) as well as other HHS and interagency partners to deliver COVID-19 countermeasures to the American public while solidifying an enhanced capability to respond to future public-health threats.

What's Next?

Under the Biden Administration’s National COVID-19 Preparedness Plan, H-CORE will keep making COVID-19 medical countermeasures available to the public while preparing for the next public health emergency. Whatever the future holds, ASPR and H-CORE are at the ready.




H-CORE Overview