Health Emergency Planning for Businesses, Non-Profits and NGOs
You’re expected to get your organization through the next health emergency.
But no one expects you to be a health risk expert.
Your organization made it through COVID-19. You know that as global health risks continue to evolve, past experiences don’t guarantee future readiness.
National preparedness priorities are evolving and shifting. How can you be sure that your current plans will protect workers, customers, and business continuity next time? Where will you get reliable and timely information?
Business continuity plans need to include targeted strategies for a health emergency. Don’t rely on what worked in the past—prepare for what’s next.
You’re smart to reach out to health emergency professionals who can help you create an up-to-date health emergency plan for your organization.
The HPP team doesn’t just provide a planning checklist. We work with you to formulate or update emergency plans that address priorities, align with organizational culture, and reduce the risks of downtime and income loss.
We’ve helped other businesses and organizations address the obstacles you’re probably now facing, including lacking information sources, getting buy-in, and turning myriad considerations into a cohesive and workable plan.
Have you tested your plan? Conducting exercises is a vital component for preparedness. We can work closely with you to develop, conduct, and evaluate a tabletop or other exercise to:
• Improve team collaboration and communication
• Enhance crisis decision-making
• Identify gaps in plans, policies, and procedures
• Clarify roles and responsibilities
• Improve organizational preparedness and resilience.
Having trouble implementing the guidance provided by public health organizations? Need to have a responsive resource to call when the next outbreak hits? You now have an expert on your side.
You’ve found the missing piece in your preparedness planning:
A health emergency expert who understands your challenges.
How we help
Continuity Planning for Businesses
Whether you’re adding a health emergency component to your business continuity plan, or updating and augmenting the previous one, there are always questions and uncertainties.
Your preparations may cover the most likely contingencies, but what about other possibilities within the changing landscape of global health?
Based on extensive planning experience, Dr. Koonin’s team can identify potential gaps, flaws and bottlenecks that aren’t readily apparent. Then we’ll offer data-driven ideas and approaches that compensate for those issues to help your firm assess the crisis, maintain operations, and recover swiftly.
Services include:
• Update continuity plans to include preparation for health emergencies, including outbreaks
• Inform the testing of plans using simulations and exercises
• Develop staff training, role assignment, chain of command
• Support coordination and communication among all sites
• Identify credible sources of information about impending health emergencies
• Connect with available public health resources
• And much more
Optional ongoing check-ins with HPP keep your continuity plans fresh.
A plan that simply sits on the shelf, without being reviewed or updated with the latest data, significantly reduces the value of your preparedness efforts.
Robust planning includes an ongoing ‘cycle of improvement’ that keeps you confident that you’ll be prepared on day one of any future health crisis.
Support During a Health Emergency, Including Implementing Public Health Guidance
You may have found that health emergency guidance provided by the CDC and other public health agencies changes frequently and isn’t always clear, granular enough, or easily operationalized.
Typically, it’s written for health agency personnel, not for companies trying to balance real-world business and safety considerations. The available information and guidance can also change quickly, which can overwhelm staff and create additional challenges.
As we all learned during COVID, widespread epidemics can be unpredictable, changing course in ways that force us to continually reassess our strategies, priorities and responses.
Using a customized 6-part framework, Dr. Lisa Koonin and Health Preparedness Partners can be your responsive lifeline throughout the stages of a disease outbreak, helping you translate that guidance into action.
You’ll receive the latest alerts, and guidance interpretations about the crisis and its impact, filling any data gaps. You’ll be able to make informed decisions, better direct your resources, keep employees informed, and integrate key ideas into your emergency responses.
Services include:
• Real-time support and advisement during emergencies
• Continual ‘state of the pandemic’ updates
• Revisions to your business continuity plans
• Employee education and contingency plans
• Worksite/office safety protocols and floor plans
• Ordering equipment and supplies
• Guidance on ‘when it’s safe to return’
• Reporting and assessment of actions and effects
• And much more
You know your priorities. We can help achieve them.
All services and strategies are collaborative and customized for your needs.
Dr. Koonin and her team are responsive, hands-on, flexible, and easy to work with.
We can start from scratch or update and improve the plans you already have.
Virtual, on-site, or hybrid working arrangements are available.
Up-front cost proposals are scaled to fit your budget and requirements.
Dr. Lisa Koonin is also available as an SME for panels and presentations.
Free E-Book: Planning for the Next Pandemic
Filling the critical gaps in your business continuity plan.
When the last pandemic hit, many executives made crucial mistakes trying to navigate the unexpected impact and informational chaos. Others who were prepared fared much better. This free E-Book explores four actionable steps of business health crisis planning that made a difference.
Author Dr. Lisa Koonin also shares real-world experiences, insights and data that you’ll be glad you didn’t miss.