The University of Minnesota Center for Public Health Preparedness is designed to train state and local public health workers and others to prepare for and respond to terrorism incidents, infectious disease outbreaks and emergent public health threats. CPHP collaborates with state and local departments of health to create a strong public health workforce and has a primary service area of Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin. The Center, established in 2002, is a member of the national network of public health preparedness training centers and is funded in part by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Providing National Leadership in:

• Academic and continuing education in public health preparedness
• Volunteer training
• Food safety
• Assessment of learning needs and evaluation methods
• Environmental health capacity building
• Rural and agroterrorism preparedness
• Digital learning and gaming simulation
• Cross border preparedness

These activities are sponsored by the University of Minnesota Center for Public Health Preparedness supported in part through a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Grant/Cooperative Agreement Number U90/CCU524264. The contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of CDC. Principal Investigator: Debra K. Olson; Co-Principal Investigator: Craig Hedberg.