Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) Cooperative Agreement
The Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) cooperative agreement is a critical source of funding for state, local, and territorial public health departments. Since 2002, the PHEP cooperative agreement has provided assistance to public health departments across the nation. This helps health departments build and strengthen their abilities to effectively respond to a range of public health threats, including infectious diseases, natural disasters, and biological, chemical, nuclear, and radiological events. Preparedness activities funded by the PHEP cooperative agreement specifically targeted the development of emergency-ready public health departments that are flexible and adaptable.
In response to the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, CDC also helped communities through the Public Health Emergency Response grant to increase state and local preparedness and response capacity during the pandemic. The recipients included the 62 PHEP awardees.
Guidance and Technical Assistance
CDC provides annual guidance and technical assistance to assist health departments with their strategic planning to strengthen their public health preparedness capabilities. Technical assistance includes CDC public health expertise, standards for developing priority preparedness capabilities, and expertise for conducting exercises and meeting performance goals. CDC developed the Online Technical Resource and Assistance Center (On-TRAC) to provide state and local public health departments a secure, user-friendly platform for requesting technical assistance. Learn more about On-TRAC.
PHEP Cooperative Agreement Guidance
- Program Announcement AA154 – FY 2008 (Budget Period 9)pdf icon
- Follow-up Questions & Answers for Program Announcement AA154 – IPR – 2008pdf icon
- Guidance for Laboratories Testing for Radiologic Threatspdf icon
- Evaluation Criteria for Pandemic Influenza Operational Plans: Key Supporting Activities Linked to PHEP Fundingpdf icon
- Scoring for PAHPA Benchmarkspdf icon
- Calculating Maximum Amount of Carryoverpdf icon
- PHEP Performance Measures Guidance
Cities Readiness Initiative
Strategic National Stockpile-Related Drills
- PHEP Drills: Fact Sheetpdf icon
- PHEP Drills: Reporting Instructionspdf icon
- PHEP Drills: Linkages with State and Local Technical Assistance Review Toolspdf icon
- Working Paper: Operational Assessments for SNS Readinesspdf icon
- Point of Dispensing Standardspdf icon
- Data Collection Sheets
Persons with disabilities having problems accessing the following files may call 1-800-CDC-INFO (1-800-232-4636) for assistance.
PHEP efforts support the National Response Framework (NRF)pdf iconexternal icon, which guides how the nation responds to all types of hazards including infectious disease outbreaks; natural disasters; biological, chemical, and radiological incidents; and explosions.
There are 62 PHEP cooperative agreement awardees:
- All 50 states
- Four major metropolitan areas (Chicago, Los Angeles County, New York City, and Washington, D.C.)
- Eight U.S. territories and freely associated states (American Samoa, Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of the Marshall Islands, and Republic of Palau).
