The LA-HRH aims to identify disaster-related morbidity and mortality surveillance, environmental, and occupational health
recovery needs and address those needs by providing technical assistance, resources, and workforce training.
LPHI serves as one of five regional technical assistance centers for the Hurricane Response Hub (HRH) initiative led by the National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI). Funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), this national program is designed to enhance disaster-related surveillance and environmental and occupational health recovery efforts. Using national resources, LPHI coordinates local, state and regional partners to strengthen public health workforce capacity building activities in disaster-related surveillance, and more effectively address environmental and occupational health needs in the event of a disaster .
Funding for this project has been provided to the National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI) through a Cooperative Agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC – NU1ROT000004-01-00). NNPHI is collaborating with the CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health on this project. The contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention.