The Lab Preparedness and Response team provides leadership to protect the health of Kansans through efforts to mitigate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters, infectious disease, terrorism, and mass casualty emergencies.
Responsibilities
To accomplish these goals, our responsibilities include:
- Health and medical planning and response in Kansas
- Coordinating the Emergency Support Function (ESF) #8
- Maintaining the Health Alert Network (KS-HAN)
- Serving as the grantee for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Health and Human Services (HHS) health preparedness grants.
We promote all-hazards planning, in the absence of a specific threat, for capabilities that require response regardless of the cause. A variety of exercise scenarios are prepared to contribute toward planning purposes for health preparedness.