The PREPARE for Pandemic Influenza: A Quality Improvement Toolkit is intended to help state and local health departments of all sizes incorporate QI methods and promising improvement strategies into their current emergency preparedness activities. The toolkit focuses on building agency capabilities rather than assessing agency capacity for future action. Also emphasized are efforts that improve both day-to-day public health activities and preparedness.

http://rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR598/

HSEEP provides a standardized methodology and terminology for exercise design, development, conduct, evaluation, and improvement planning.

https://hseep.dhs.gov/pages/1001_HSEEP7.aspx

FEMA, a part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), offers information and resources to reduce the loss of life and property and protect the Nation from all hazards, including natural disasters, acts of terrorism, and other man-made disasters, by leading and supporting the Nation in a risk-based, comprehensive emergency management system of preparedness, protection, response, recovery, and mitigation.

http://www.fema.gov

The global electronic reporting system for outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases & toxins, open to all sources. ProMED-mail, the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases, is a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases.

http://www.promedmail.org/pls/otn/f?p=2400:1000:

http://www.ahrq.gov/prep/

The Emergency Management Institute (EMI) offers self-paced courses designed for people who have emergency management responsibilities and the general public. Courses address: Incident Management, Operational Planning, Disaster Logistics, Emergency Communications, Service to Disaster Victims, Continuity Programs, Public Disaster Communications, Integrated Preparedness, Hazard Mitigation.

http://training.fema.gov/IS/crslist.asp

Provides comprehensive government-wide information on pandemic influenza and avian influenza for the general public, health and emergency preparedness professionals, policy makers, government and business leaders, school systems, and local communities.

http://www.pandemicflu.gov/

The NH DHHS web page for all information and resources regarding avian influenza. This page includes information about the All Hazards Region planning efforts, the Pandemic Preparedness Coordinating Committee and other resources.

http://www.avianflu.nh.gov

This site is intended to increase the nation's ability to prepare for and respond to public health emergencies.

http://www.bt.cdc.gov/

The BDCLS serves the health and well being of NH residents and communities by providing timely and effective control of infectious diseases and monitoring of injuries, diseases, health behaviors and vital events. BDCLS applies and promotes epidemiological principles toward public health responses and the collection, analysis and dissemination of data.

http://www.dhhs.state.nh.us/DHHS/BDCLS/default.htm