Center Director: John Herbold, D.V.M., M.P.H, Ph.D.
The mission of the Center for Biosecurity and Public Health Preparedness (CBPHP) is to educate frontline public health workforce, medical and emergency responders, key leaders and other professionals to respond to threats such as bioterrorism and other emergencies affecting our communities. The Center addresses areas related to domestic biosecurity threats, including research, education, training, risk communications, border health security, emergency preparedness, and policy development.
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: 11/6/2009
