Preparedness and response : by the numbers

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S). Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response.

• $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

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Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library collection