Health Security
Our Expertise
Global Health Resilience
From naturally occurring pandemics to intentional acts of bioterrorism, our team collaborates with our clients to provide solutions to today’s most complex health threats. This includes planning, training, and exercise work in medical countermeasures (MCM), emerging threats, biosecurity response, point of dispensing, receipt, store, and stage (RSS) warehouse readiness, and more.
Our work products have been cited as best practices and we are continuously engaged by all levels of government and the private sector to forward our client’s capabilities in public health security. Our team members have hands-on experience as planners, public health professionals, and responders, offering expert capability to help your organization prepare for the unthinkable.
Statewide Medical and Health Preparedness Program
A State as large as California has complex requirements for healthcare preparedness. CONSTANT was engaged to successfully execute a multi-year effort to support the State of California in managing its annual statewide medical and health disaster exercise. The effort spanned multiple trainings, website design, video production, technical assistance, and outreach. CONSTANT brought fresh ideas on managing the complex threat landscape of California, broadening connections with healthcare partners, and evolving resilience capabilities to meet the challenges ahead.
Medical Surge Readiness Program
Healthcare facilities must be ready to surge to meet the needs following a disaster. Working with two regional hospitals in Los Angeles, CONSTANT developed the “15 ‘til 50” Mass Casualty Incident Toolkit that outlines how to prepare for a surge of 50 patients with only 15 minutes' notice. This award-winning toolkit was designed for healthcare emergency managers. It included a PowerPoint deck, checklists, plan templates, videos, talking points, supply lists, and more. This program was recognized by the California Emergency Services Association (CESA) for its innovation and relevance in helping to prepare healthcare emergency managers for MCIs.
CBRNE Readiness for Healthcare
CONSTANT is currently assessing local decontamination plans and jurisdictional CBRNE response capabilities for the Bay Area, California. This includes the design and conduct of a virtual workshop series to understand local government and partner agency operational capabilities, the development of a regional healthcare and hospital response Concept of Operations, and the creation of a purchasing plan to acquire identified necessary CBRNE equipment.
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Award-Winning Health Security Projects
We have produced reputable Health Security work since the inception of our company. Sample Health Security projects span public health disaster response training for the U.S. Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR), Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) Program-aligned plans for local health departments, and COVID-19 After Action Reports (AARs) for over 20 state and local governments, including the State of California.
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Public Health Disaster Response Training
ASPR leads the nation’s medical and public health preparedness for, response to, and recovery from public health emergencies. In support of this mission, CONSTANT was engaged to develop training to strengthen ASPR and its partners’ abilities to manage public health emergencies and execute disaster response and recovery missions. Our work resulted in a suite of interactive training using cutting-edge adult learning methods that was informed by first-hand accounts of disaster deployments. The training covered coordination concepts and emerging policies.
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Public Health Emergency Preparedness Plans
CONSTANT supports plan writing to align local health departments with requirements for the PHEP Program and Public Health Accreditation Board. This includes authorship or update of plans spanning EOPs, CERC, MCM, MCM Point of Dispensing (POD), IDER, Shelter Operations, Lab Surge Staffing, Continuity of Operations (COOP), Pandemic Influenza, Nonpharmaceutical Disease Containment, Communicable Disease Incident Response, Epidemiology-Surveillance, Training and Exercise, and more.
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Pandemic Preparedness
CONSTANT led the development of a COVID-19 AAR for the State of California, authored more than 15 AARs for local governments, and led a comprehensive Pandemic Preparedness Program for the Bay Area. California’s AAR analyzes the State’s response to the pandemic in areas such as response coordination, state guidance and policies, communication, logistics, social services, and economic relief. CONSTANT supported a multi-faceted data collection process to consult with representatives from all levels of government. The report positions California to strengthen preparedness for, response to, and recovery from future pandemics.