Objectives and Activities

• Enhance preparedness and planning efforts for natural and man-made public health emergencies through plan development and staff training
• Distribute medical countermeasures (e.g., medication or vaccine) during large-scale public health emergency within 48 hours
• Organize and conduct training and exercises for pandemic influenza, Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) deployment, redundant communications, and other response activities
• Educate residents regarding disease prevention and control
• Oversee the Collin County Medical Reserve Corps
• Assist with coordination of functional needs support services for shelter-in-place, evacuation, and sheltering events
• Improve inter-agency and inter-jurisdictional coordination through development of agreements and routine participation with
  • hospitals,
  • schools,
  • city emergency management,
  • adjacent county departments,
  • Texas Department of State Health Services,
  • North Central Texas Council of Government,
  • North Central Texas Trauma Regional Advisory Council,
  • private partners, and
  • non-profit, faith-based and community organizations