Acronyms
AASHTO – American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
ACIP – Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices
ACPs – Area Committees and Area Contingency Plans
ADLE – Advanced Distance Learning Exercise
AE – Adverse Events
ALERT – Advanced Local Emergency Response Team
APR – Air-purifying Respirators
ATSDR - Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
AVA – Anthrax Vaccine Absorbed
BDS – Biological Detection System
BENS – Business Executives for National Security
BRFSS – Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
BT – Bioterrorism
BTP – Bio-Terrorism Preparedness
C & C – Command and Control
CAP – Corrective Action Program
CBR – Chemical, Biological or Radiological
CBRN – Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear
CBRNE – Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosive
CDRS - Communicable Disease Reporting System
CDRSS – Communicable Disease Reporting and Surveillance System
CDS – Communicable Disease Service
CEHA – County Environmental Health Act
CERC – Crisis and Emergency Risk Communications
CERCLA – Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
CERT – Community Emergency Response Team
CFR – Code of Federal Regulations
CIL – Clinical Information Line
CMC – Crisis Management Coordinator
CMS – Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
CPS – Current Population Survey
CSTE – Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists
CTPCT – Counter-Terrorism Program Coordinating Team
DEA – Drug Enforcement Administration
DERA – Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response Association
DEST – Domestic Emergency Support Team
DOHMH - Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
DSPTF - New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Task Force
EBC – Electronic Birth Certificate
ECC – Executive Coordinating Committee
ED – Emergency Department
EEOHS - Epidemiology, Environmental, Occupational Health Services
ELC – Electronic Laboratory Capacity
EMS – Emergency Medical Services
EOC – Emergency Operations Center
EOP – Emergency Operations Plan
EORs – Exercise Observation Reports
EPCRA – Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act
ERRS – Emergency and Rapid Response Services
ESF – Emergency Support Function
FEDEX – Federal Express
FeX – Functional
FOSCs – Federal On-Scene Coordinators
FRP Federal Response Plan
FSE– Full Scale Exercise
FSL – Federal State Local
GIS – Geographic Information System
HACC – Healthcare Auxillary Command Center
HAN - Health Alert Network
HCC – Health Command Center
HCC – Health Coordination Center
HERC – Health Educator/Risk Communicator
HERMIS – Health Emergency Resource Management Information System
HHCRT - Hospital Health Care Response Teams
HICPAC – Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee
HIPAA – Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (Privacy Rule)
HRSA – Health Resources and Services Administration
HSAS – Homeland Security Advisory System
HSEEP – Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program
HSOC – Homeland Security Operations Center
IC – Incident Commander
ICP – Incident Command Post
ICP – Infection Control Professional
ICP – Infection Control Practitioner
ICPs – Infection Control Professionals
ICS – Incident Command System
ICS/UC – Incident Command System/Unified Command
ILI – Influenza like illness
IND – Investigational New Drug
IT SPECIALIST – Information Technology Specialist
IZDP - Infectious and Zoonotic Disease Program
JFO – Joint Field Office
JIC – Joint Information Center
JOC – Joint Operations Center
JTF-CS - Joint Task Force-Civil Support
JTTF – Joint Terrorism Task Force
LEPCs – Local Emergency Planning Committees
LFA – Lead Federal Agency
LHD - Local Health Department
LINCS - Local Information Network Communication System
LOINC – Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes
LRN – Laboratory Response Network
LSCs – Local Site Coordinators
LTCF – Long Term Care Facility
MA – Mission Assignment
MAPP – Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships
MCOs – Managed Care Organizations
MEDPREP – Medical Emergency and Disaster Prevention and Response Expert Panel
MMRS – Metropolitan Medical Response System
MOA – Memorandum of Agreement
MOU – Memorandum of Understanding
MSA – Metropolitan Statistical Areas
MSEL – Major Sequence of Events
NACCHO – National Association of County and City Health Officials
NAPH – Name/Address/Phone/Health history
NCP – National Contingency Plan
NCR – National Capital Region
NCRP – National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements
NCTC – National Counterterrorism Center
NCVHS – National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics
NFPA – National Fire Protection Association
NIIMS – National Interagency Incident Management System
NIMS – National Incident Management System
NIOSH – National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
NJDHSS - New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services
NJHA – New Jersey Hospital Association
NJIIS - New Jersey Immunization Information System
NJSP SOME - New Jersey State Police – State Office of Emergency Management
NMRT – National Medical Response Team
NPS – National Pharmaceutical Stockpile
NRC – National Regulatory Commission
NRC – National Response Center
NRT – National Response Team
NSV – National Smallpox Vaccination Program
NVAC – National Vaccine Advisory Committee
ODP – Office for Domestic Preparedness
OEM – Office of Emergency Management
PDDs – Presidential Decision Directives
PERF – Police Executive Research Forum
PFO – Principal Federal Official
PHEL – Public Health Environmental Labs
PHEOC – Public Health Emergency Operation Center
PHPPO – Public Health Practice Program Office
PHRT - Public Health Response Team
PIO – Public Information Officer
POD – Point of Distribution
POD – Point of Dispensing (Dispensing site)
PPE – Personal Protective Equipment
PSE&G – Public Services Enterprise and Group
PSOB - Public Safety Officers Benefit Program
PVS – Pre-Event Vaccination System
PVS – Preparedness Vaccination System
RACES – Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Services
RDD – Radiological Dispersal Device
REHS – Registered Environmental Health Specialist
RESS – Registration, Education, Self-Screen
RODS – Real-time Outbreak Disease Surveillance System
RODS – Rapid Outbreak Detecting System
RRT – Regional Response Team
RSS – Receipt, Stage, Store refer to the function or the warehouse that performs the function of receiving, staging, and storing the SNS
RUPHA – Rutgers University Public Health Association
SAC – Special Agent in Charge
SARA – Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986
SARS – Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
SEPPA – Smallpox Emergency Personnel Protection Act
SERC – State Emergency Response Commission
SFLEO – Senior Federal Law Enforcement Official
SHEA – Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America
SIOC – Special Incident Operations Center
SIOC – Strategic Information and Operations Center
SIOC – Strategic Interagency Operations Center
SISS – Smallpox Immunization Safety System
SLG – State and Local Guide
SNOMED – Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine
SNS – Strategic National Stockpile
SOEM – State Office of Emergency Management
SOP – Standard Operating Procedures
TARU – Technical Advisory Response Unit
TT – Table Top
UMDNJ – University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
VAERS – Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System
VAV – Variable Air Volume
VIS – Vaccine Information Statement
VMI – Vendor Managed Inventory
WFD – Work Force Development Program
WHO – World Health Organization
WMD – Weapon of Mass Destruction
WMDOU – Weapons of Mass Destruction Operations Unit
WNV - West Nile Virus