New TFAH Report on Emergency Preparedness in States

3/10/22 — Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) released its annual evaluation of states’ performance on ten key emergency preparedness indicators in Ready or Not 2022: Protecting the Public’s Health from Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism. The report identifies gaps in states’ readiness to respond to emergencies and includes policy recommendations for strengthening the nation’s health security. This year’s report found that 12 states improved their performance while 16 states slipped in their ranking. Seventeen states and the District of Columbia placed in the high-performance tier, 20 states in the middle performance tier, and 13 states in the low performance tier.