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ASPR facilitates robust and reliable public health security capabilities by building and maintaining HHS partnerships. These collaborations improve the ability to detect and diagnose 21st century health threats and the capability to rapidly dispense medical countermeasures and deploy personnel and resources in an emergency.ASPR advocates for and provides services and programs that: enhance disease situational awareness, strengthen disease containment, improve risk communication, ensure rapid medical countermeasures, grow the next generation of leaders and modernize response and recovery capabilities. To learn more about ASPR’s public health response and recovery activities, visit:
Emergency Support Function 8
Incident Response Framework
Incident Management Teams
Regional Emergency Coordinator