Local Preparation for Pandemic Flu

The Franklin County Board of Health and Columbus Public Health have worked with our partners at the Franklin County Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency to create a community-wide approach to planning and response for pandemic flu. In the event of a pandemic, the Franklin County Board of Health and Columbus Public Health would jointly lead the response effort.  Both departments work together daily and share one joint response plan.

Since April of 2006 the health departments have worked with over 50 additional agencies in the Central Ohio area to build a community incident command response plan that involves every potential response agency from our area.

We continue to identify strengths and gaps and meet regularly to engage all partners to insure continued planning.  The networking and relationship building is key to our response success. 

For additional information on the community incident command process please contact Mike Fielding, Director of the Office of Emergency Preparedness at Columbus Public Health at mjfielding@columbus.gov.

Information from the Ohio Department of Health

Information from www.flu.gov

Information from the CDC