Planning

Pandemic and Bioterrorism Preparedness Planning

A solid plan is the foundation for successful preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation. Your plan should not only serve your specific needs, but it should also integrate well with other local and state plans. GP has the proven expertise to make that happen, whether we are assessing, identifying gaps, and making recommendations for improvement in your existing plan or helping you develop a new plan. Either way, GP considers all of the variables of a bioterrorism attack or pandemic flu outbreak along with your specialized requirements to produce a comprehensive plan that is tailored to your needs and your community.

Currently, many funding opportunities are available for state and local public health organizations to strengthen their preparedness to handle bioterrorism, pandemic alerts, and each of the six pandemic phases as defined by the World Health Organization. GP can help you achieve your preparedness goals with expert planning, training, exercises, and public awareness strategies.

Our Unique Approach to Pandemic and Bioterrorism Preparedness Planning

GP possesses the knowledge, expertise, and resources that will ensure the most comprehensive and functional program available to support your pandemic flu and bioterrorism preparedness efforts. GP's capabilities are flexible enough to support each organization's unique set of needs, resources, and capabilities, while ensuring compliance with all state and federal guidelines and regulations.

GP's technical approach for pandemic flu is typically organized into six modular steps that are applied in a flexible manner to a client's unique requirements and culture:

1. Review existing documentation.
2. Develop a pandemic flu or bioterrorism preparedness plan.
3. Provide public outreach services.
4. Develop a community guide and toolkit.
5. Conduct training seminars.
6. Perform hands-on exercises.

Our Pandemic and Bioterrorism Preparedness Planning Experience

Our staff has extensive public health, emergency management, and homeland security experience helping government and commercial clients. GP's project experience includes the following:

• Planned, conducted, and evaluated strategic national stockpile tabletop and functional exercises in the State of Massachusetts
• Provided state Health Department support for pandemic and bioterrorism preparedness assessments, regional plans, training, and exercises in Texas, Tennessee, California, Arkansas, Louisiana, Iowa, New York, New Jersey, Arizona, Maryland, North Dakota, and Pennsylvania
• Provided statewide hospital bioterrorism (BT) preparedness support for Texas, California, and Tennessee
• Provided anthrax decontamination management support and specialized consulting services for the Department of Defense (DoD), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• Trained tens of thousands of first responders and other personnel in thousands of classes through the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Domestic Preparedness Equipment Training Program (DPETAP) on the use of equipment to respond to Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) attacks
• Provided support to the EPA counterterrorism and emergency preparedness program, to include WMD training and exercises for emergency responders
• Conducted an assessment of public health preparedness and response capacity inventory for the Louisiana Office of Public Health
• Conducted a statewide clinic preparedness assessment, developed a model clinic emergency response plan, and provided clinic bioterrorism awareness and response training for the Pennsylvania Department of Health PA Forum for Primary Health Care
• Developed a pandemic influenza annex for the Lee County, Florida, Office of Emergency Management COOP