Center Director: Jim Langabeer II, Ph.D., M.B.A.
The mission of the Center for Emergency Preparedness (CEP) is to provide best practice research and training that improves community and organizational capacity to prepare for and respond to emergency events, such as those resulting from infectious disease, pandemic influenza, natural disasters, and mass casualty events. The CEP vision is complete readiness for all health and safety hazards. The Center is a part of The University of Texas School of Public Health (UTSPH). We focus on the unique challenges in Texas through UTSPH's Houston and regional campuses, including sites along the critical US-Mexico border and urban campuses.
The goals of the Center are to improve the public health capacity to address all types of disasters locally, within Texas and throughout the country, through training and education, research and community service. The Center develops public health and medical collaborations with our partner institutions to help coordinate the local public health and medical response to threats. The Center also provides training, support, and mentoring to the UT-SPH Student Epidemic Intelligence Society (SEIS), which prepares public health graduate students to respond to emergencies and support state and local health department surveillance activities.
Research areas of the Center:
- Emergency preparedness
- Biosecurity risk communications
- Border health security
- Biosecurity, including emerging infectious diseases and public health preparedness policy
Updated: 4/9/2010
