✣ For public health
Fifteen capabilities.
One cycle.
CDC’s Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Capabilities set the frame for PHEP planning and exercising. Preppr connects your plans to them, exercises them with ESF-8 partners, and carries findings into the next work plan.
CDC PHEP · ESF-8
15
public health preparedness and response capabilities, in six domains.
✣ The compliance clock
The frameworks public health answers to
PHEP-funded jurisdictions plan and exercise against CDC’s capabilities, coordinate with healthcare under ESF-8, and document exercises using HSEEP.
15
CDC preparedness and response capabilities
Grouped into six domains, from biosurveillance to surge management.
6
Capability domains
Community resilience, incident management, information management, countermeasures and mitigation, surge management, and biosurveillance.
ESF-8
Public Health and Medical Services
The National Response Framework function coordinated federally by HHS.
HSEEP
Exercise methodology
Design, conduct, and evaluate exercises and document them as an AAR/IP.
✣ When CDC or the state asks
Every step leaves evidence
Preppr records each part of the cycle as it happens, so the documentation exists before anyone requests it.
Assess
Ask Preppr
Maps your plans to the 15 CDC capabilities and shows where coverage is thin.
✓ Capability gap register
Gather intel
Intelligence
Brings hazard and threat signal into context with your plans and assessments.
✓ Threat picture linked to your hazards
Engage
Collaborate
Gathers input from ESF-8 partners, coalitions, and community organizations.
✓ Documented stakeholder input with dates
Design
Exercise & Simulation
Builds outbreak, dispensing, and surge exercises from your top risks.
✓ Exercise plan tied to your top hazards
Exercise
Exercise & Simulation
Runs the session in person or virtually, capturing decisions as they happen.
✓ Dated participant and decision log
Improve
Improve
Tracks corrective actions to closure and re-tests them next cycle.
✓ AAR/IP ready for your next PHEP work plan
✣ Scenarios public health departments run in Preppr
Test the day you hope never comes
Outbreak
Novel infectious disease
Surveillance, isolation guidance, and risk communication.
MCM
Countermeasure dispensing
POD operations, throughput, and partner staffing.
Heat
Extreme heat event
Cooling centers, vulnerable populations, and hospital surge.
✣ Inside Preppr
From your plans to a ready exercise
Exercise Designer reads your own plans and the rules your sector answers to, then drafts the scenario, injects, and objectives for your team to review.
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Run PHEP-aligned preparedness as one cycle: assess plans, engage ESF-8 partners, exercise outbreak and countermeasure scenarios, and track improvement.
How Preppr supports public health across the cycle
1 · Ask
Ask Preppr
Ask about your plans and draft documents against the 15 CDC preparedness and response capabilities, cited to the page.
2 · Remember
Knowledge
Keep plans, ESF-8 agreements and past AARs in one cited memory the whole department can search.
3 · Watch
Intelligence
Track outbreak, heat and countermeasure signals in context with your jurisdiction.
4 · Engage
Collaborate
Gather input from ESF-8 partners, healthcare coalitions and community organizations in their own language.
5 · Practice
Exercise & Simulation
Build outbreak, dispensing and surge exercises from your top risks, and run multi-partner sessions in person or virtually.
6 · Improve
Improve
See coverage across the CDC PHEP capabilities and carry corrective actions into your next PHEP work plan.
Requirements this covers
CDC PHEP and Response Capabilities
15 capabilities that structure public health preparedness planning and exercising.
ESF-8 Public Health and Medical Services
The National Response Framework function public health coordinates with healthcare partners.
HSEEP
The exercise methodology PHEP-funded exercises follow.
Scenarios teams test
Novel infectious disease outbreak
Medical countermeasure dispensing (POD)
Foodborne illness cluster
Extreme heat event
Mass-casualty surge with healthcare coalition
Water contamination advisory
“Preppr delivers technology that adds real value and impact for everyone in the exercise space. It’s truly game-changing.”
Brandon Torigian
Chief, Recovery & Evaluation · CA Dept of Public Health
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