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San Francisco public health officials outline citywide emergency preparedness, training and neighborhood resilience
Summary
Navina Baba, director of the Public Health Emergency Preparedness & Response Branch, told commissioners the department is centralizing training tracking, expanding exercises and partnering with hospitals and neighborhoods to prepare for threats from El Niño rains to infectious outbreaks and mass evacuations.
Navina Baba, director of the Department of Public Health—mergency Preparedness & Response Branch, told the commission that San Francisco is ramping up citywide preparedness across three lines: department operations coordination, health‑system partnerships and community resilience. "We will be hiring a trainer into our branch," Baba said, describing a newly approved position to strengthen workforce training and follow‑up.
Baba opened with examples of recent and looming hazards—rom drought shifting into El Nino rains to wildfires and infectious threatsto illustrate how disasters create health consequences requiring a coordinated public‑health response. She said the department relies on two federal funding and capability frameworksthe CDC—unded Public Health Emergency Preparedness program and the HHS Hospital Preparedness Programand that those streams guide training and exercises.
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