Friday, May 9, 2025
5/9/2025
Alaska PHEP Application - The State of Alaska (SOA), Department of Health (DOH) is dedicated to increasing the ability of state, local and tribal entities to prepare for, respond to, and recover from public health emergencies and disasters. SOA DOH will utilize the CDC's Response Readiness Framework that employs ten cross-cutting program priorities to focus efforts, on during the federal fiscal years (FY) 2024-2028 period of performance. These priorities inform the PHEP logic model. Additionally, the Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Capabilities: National Standards for State. Local. Tribal. and Territorial Public Health describes the fifteen capability standards designed to support STLT jurisdictions as we prepare for, respond to, and recover from public health threats and emergencies. These fifteen capabilities are foundational to the CDC Response Readiness Framework. Purpose SOA DOH’s project purpose is to work with critical public health stakeholders to coordinate planning, communicate to exchange critical information, train and exercise to improve systems, and show measurable progress toward achieving the outcomes outlined in the PHEP logic model during the five-year period of performance. Outcomes SOA DOH will utilize the strategies and activities defined in the PHEP logic model to achieve the expected short term, intermediate, and long-term outcomes of this project, as defined in the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) Program Logic Model. DOH implements a comprehensive set of strategies and activities to achieve progress towards these outcomes. In Budget Period 1 of this current cooperative agreement, DOH’s key activities include: revision and update of the Jurisdictional Risk Assessment (JRA), revision and update of the Administrative Preparedness Plan, maintenance of Epidemiological, Public Health Laboratory, Health Emergency Response and Public Health Nursing capabilities to identify and respond to possible public health threats; consistent training and recruitment of DOH EOC staff members to sustain public health response; implementation of the statewide Common Operating Picture software; integration of surveillance systems to align information and share with critical stakeholders; and joint exercises and trainings with health care partners. Through the use of PHEP funding and implementation of the activities and outcomes described above, Alaska will advance the statewide efforts to strengthen community resilience, incident management practices, information management, countermeasures and mitigation, public health surge management, and biosurveillance.
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