Center for Health Hazards Preparedness
“The Center for Health Hazards Preparedness (CHHP), formerly the Center for Deterrence of Biowarfare and Bioterrorism,… was established in 2002 through a cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)… The Center for Health Hazards Preparedness is a nationally-recognized center of excellence in coordinating research, education and service to improve the local, regional and national response to potential acts of terrorism, natural disasters and infectious diseases.” The Center provides course offerings on bioterrorism response for health providers, including simulations and discipline-specific materials; training for emergency room personnel, primary care clinicians and clinical laboratorians which will enable the early detection of a bioterrorist attack; training modules, including distance education modules, for health providers as first responders to bioterrorism events; advanced integrated information management systems for disease surveillance and epidemiology; communications methods to include extended metropolitan and rural regions to facilitate early recognition and coordinate responses to bioterrorism events; and outcomes measurements, and evaluations of processes and interventions.