Preparedness and response : by the numbers

• $616 million in annual Public Health Preparedness and Response funds awarded to 62 jurisdictions for 2016 • 646 CDC responders deployed internationally to fight Zika • 21,756 incoming calls responded to from the public; state health departments; clinicians; and hospitals • 4 CDC Emergency Operations Center responses at once: Polio, Ebola, Zika, and Flint, Michigan Water Contamination • 31,000 Zika Prevention Kits distributed across the U.S. and its territories • 25 countries sent public health leaders to CDC headquarters for emergency management training • 2,232 federal, state, territorial, and local emergency responders trained on how to receive and distribute products from the Strategic National Stockpile • 216 inspections of laboratories registered to handle select agents and toxins conducted by the Federal Select Agent Program in 2015 • 64 peer-reviewed publications and Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports published by Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response staff • 100 Public Health Emergency Preparedness-funded field staff assigned to 44 different awardee locations in 2016 00_docs/by-the-numbers.pdf

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