Emergency Preparedness and Response to Threats Directorate
Overview
Jordan, like all other countries, faces a wide range of health emergencies and threats that arise from various risks that differ in degree, consequences, and their impact on the various capabilities of the country, economically and socially. From this point of view, and in order to maintain health security that ensures social security, the preparedness to face these risks and threats, and the coordinated fast response before they spread in the community has become one of the most pressing challenges facing Jordan and the world alike. The Emergency Preparedness and Response to Threats Directorate works to enhance the national capacities in the field of emergency preparedness and response by setting policies, strategies and health guidance principles related to the readiness for general health emergencies and response to them, as well as coordinating and monitoring national efforts towards readiness and response to general health emergencies.
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Goals and Objectives
Contribute to the creation, development and testing of plans for the preparation and response to multiple health risks, including emergency situations that threaten public health.
Build and evaluate advanced national technical capacities that ensure the enhancement of general health practices in the field of response and preparedness.
Promote and monitor healthy environmental and health behaviors, and assess Jordan’s capabilities in rapid response to epidemics, outbreaks and health threats.
Coordinate and unify national efforts towards the preparation and response to public health emergencies.
Tasks and Duties
Monitor and track environmental health threats and their relationship to outbreaks and Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and the response to these threats.
Supervise the creation, review, development, and testing of preparedness and response plans for multiple health and biological risks, including emergency cases that threaten public health, within the scope of the JCDC at the local level.
Monitoring and following up on environmental health threats and their relationship to epidemics and NCDs and responding to them.
Developing potential scenarios for health threats, bioterrorism, and toxins resulting from biological agents, epidemics, and pandemics, and preparing response plans to reduce their negative impact, contain them, prepare for them, and take the necessary measures for that.
Study the policies used locally and internationally to control toxins and bio-terrorism and come up with the most efficient policy in all social, health and economic aspects, in cooperation with the relevant authorities.
Overseeing the coordination and leadership of national response efforts in cases of epidemics, emergencies, and health and biological threats.
Continuous communication with international expertise in the field emergency preparedness and participation in activities, programs, seminars and conferences related to the Directorate.
Supervising the provision of information and following up the readiness to ensure the existence of a national stock of medical equipment and supplies needed to respond to public health emergencies (prevention, detection, and sterilization).
Monitoring and following up scientific and practical developments related to the field of response to public health emergencies from all national, regional and international sources.
Supervising the coordination, organization and control of the process of acquisition, transfer, use and disposal of dangerous and highly toxic biological materials in addition to infectious microbes.
Overseeing the development and evaluation of nationally implemented plans and programs by providing data, results of studies and research, practical and theoretical exercises (TTX & FTX), and others.
Continuous communication with international expertise in the field of the Directorate work and cooperation with international and local specialized bodies and organizations.