The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) created the Public Health Preparedness Capabilities in order to assist state and local health departments with their strategic planning.  This set of capabilities creates a national standard for public health preparedness capability-based planning and will assist state and local planners in identifying gaps in preparedness, determining the specific jurisdictional priorities, and developing plans for building and sustaining capabilities.  

CDC identified the public health preparedness capabilites (divided into corresponding domains) as the following:

Biosurveillance

• Public Health Laboratory Testing
• Public Health Surveillance and Epidemiological Investigation

Community Resillience

• Community Preparedness
• Community Recovery

Countermeasures and Mitigation

• Medical Countermeasure Dispensing
• Medical Material Management and Distribution
• Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions
• Responder Safety and Health

Incident Management

• Emergency Operations Coordination

Information Management

• Emergency Public Information and Warning
• Information Sharing

Surge Management

• Fatality Management
• Mass Care
• Medical Surge
• Volunteer Management

The complete Public Health Preparedness Capabilities document can be accessed here.  To explore trainings/courses offered through TRAIN by using the search option "Public Health Preparedness Capabilities" follow this link.