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The New Jersey Center for Public Health Preparedness at UMDNJ, established at the UMDNJ-School of Public Health, is one of the nation’s 21 Academic Centers for Public Health Preparedness. Funding is provided by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) through the Association of Schools of Public Health, and also through the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services.

What we do

Prepare the public health and healthcare workforces and others for:

Biological, chemical, radiological or nuclear threats or emergencies
Industrial and transportation accidents
Infectious disease outbreaks
Natural disasters
Protecting the health and safety of emergency responders

How we do it

Educate and train through:

Distance education
Online content prepared by our experts
Seminars and lectures

The UMDNJ-School of Public Health is sponsored by the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in cooperation with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and the New Jersey Institute of Technology and in collaboration with the Public Health Research Institute.