Preparedness Summit 2025
April 29 - May 7
The 2025 Preparedness Summit will be held this year from April 29 – May 2 in San Antonio, Texas.
Join more than 2,500 attendees—who work in all levels of the government (federal, state, and local), emergency management, volunteer organizations, healthcare coalitions, and academia—to share best practices, build partnerships, advance your skillset, and take away innovative solutions and practical strategies to address the vulnerabilities in our country’s health security system.
Highlighted presentations include:
- A Common Operating Platform to Support Public Health Readiness and Response
- Considerations of Moral Injury in Health Care Providers Treating Patients with Acute Radiation Syndrome in the Aftermath of a Nuclear Disaster
- Risk Communications for Radiological Emergencies
- Update to the CDC Guidelines for Prevention and Treatment of Anthrax
- Modernizing Pandemic Preparedness with Virtual Tabletop Simulations
- Improving Pre-Distribution of Potassium Iodide (KI) in a Nuclear Jurisdiction through Community Partnerships
- Leveraging Vaccine Policy Data for Domestic Preparedness
- Development of Guidance to Address Gaps and Needs to Efficiently Meet the Needs of Those at Increased Risk During Decontamination and Evacuation
- Hospital Playbook for Special Populations Experiencing High-Consequence Infectious Diseases
- A Dashboard Design for a Radiological Emergency Public Health Response in New York City
- A Low Resource, High-Impact Special Pathogens Unit Call Down Drill at NYC H+H/Bellevue Hospital
- Actual POV Throughput Determination Based on 2024 Fall Vaccination Clinic Time Studies and Its Application in POD/POV Planning
- Adapting in a Crisis: Leveraging Remote Response Capabilities for Public Health Coordination in Hurricane Beryl Response
- Alliance for Health System Resilience: A Novel Workforce Development Collaboration
- ASPR Trends Reporting as a Tool for Data-Informed Transition from Disaster Response to Recovery Efforts
- Assessing Individual and Community Preparedness to Disasters and Pandemics in the State of Idaho
- Lessons Learned from Oregon’s Clinical Laboratory Consortium during COVID-19
- Brewing Resilience: Stirring Community Health Workers into the Emergency Preparedness Blend
- Building a Resilient Health System: Development of a Health Emergency Operations Center
- Chicago MRC Volunteers: Mobilizing a Swift and Diverse Response to the 2024 Measles Outbreak at New Arrival Shelters
- Leveraging Data-Driven Decision Making to Minimize Impacts of Disease on Incident Response
- Converting a Hotel into a Hospital: A Solution for Medical Surge
- Transitioning to a Pharmacy Emergency Response Model in Kentucky
- Enhancing Public Health and Medical Safety During National Special Security Events
- Ensuring Medical Countermeasures Reach Those at Increased Risk During the Recovery Phase of Emergency Responses
- Establishing an Innovative and Customizable Health and Homeland Alert Network Emergency Notification Syste
- Evaluating the Effectiveness of Self-Swabbing Among Children for Improved Public Health Surveillance
- Examining How Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) Fill the Gaps in Disaster Preparedness Efforts in Florida Communities
The Preparedness Summit is the first and longest-running national conference on public health preparedness. Since its beginning in 2007, the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) has taken a leadership role in convening a wide array of partners to participate in the Summit; presenting new research findings, sharing tools and resources, and providing a variety of opportunities for attendees to learn how to implement model practices that enhance the nation’s capabilities to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters and other emergencies.
Please visit the Preparedness Summit website for more information and to register to attend.