The University of Maryland Center for Cyber, Health, and Hazard Strategies (CHHS) partners with governments, healthcare systems, and organizations to enhance resilience across emergencies. We provide expert support in continuity planning, cybersecurity, emergency operations, and strategies for serving vulnerable populations. From risk assessments and incident response to tailored trainings, shelter planning, and policy development, CHHS equips communities to safeguard essential services and recover swiftly in times of crisis.
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Continuity of Operations (COOP) and Continuity of Government (COG) Plans
A COOP/COG plan ensures that organizations are able to continue the performance of essential functions under a broad range of circumstances.
Crisis Management Plans
A Crisis Management Plan is the communications and decision-making component of an overall Business Continuity Plan (BCP). A thorough Crisis Management Plan facilitates rapid communication to ensure overall safety to both internal and external stakeholders.
Cyber Incident Response Plans
A Cyber Incident Response Plan is a plan that goes beyond the technical response to a cyber incident and outlines all roles and responsibilities within an entire organization during and after a cyber event. The plan includes strategic, legal, regulatory, and policy considerations, as well as coordination and communication procedures.
Emergency Operations Plans
An emergency operations plan (EOP) is a document which outlines how an organization and/or facility will respond to an emergency. The EOP sets guidelines to manage a disaster in an effective, efficient, and timely manner.
Gap Analyses
A gap analysis is designed is to improve operational readiness and reduce disaster impacts by identifying and reducing or eliminating shortfalls that exist between estimated requirements, standards, and performance measures and the actual response and short-term recovery capabilities.
Hazard Mitigation Plans
Hazard mitigation planning is the process used by organizations to understand risks from natural and man-made hazards and develop long-term strategies to reduce the impacts of disasters on people, property, and the environment.
Hospital Surge Planning
Medical surge capacity refers to the ability to evaluate and care for a markedly increased volume of patients—one that challenges or exceeds normal operating capacity.
Interoperable Communications
Interoperable communications refers to the ability of emergency responders and government personnel to communicate and share voice and data information seamlessly.
Legal Handbooks
Emergency-centric legal handbooks are effective resources which cover topics such as executive emergency powers, governmental liability and immunity, and subject areas like public health and environmental safety.
Resource Management Plans
A resource management plan addresses the type, quantity and location of resources that an agency would require to execute an effective emergency response. It also includes gaps, capabilities, and cost and procurement information.
Risk Assessments
A risk assessment is a process to identify potential hazards and analyze what could happen if a hazard occurs.
Strategic Planning
Strategic planning is an organization’s process of defining its emergency management strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy.
Training and Exercise Development, Facilitation and Evaluation
This service includes the successful planning, delivery and evaluation of all Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) exercises: seminar, workshop, tabletop exercise, drill, functional exercise and full-scale exercise.
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