NEMA is pleased to make available a standardized EMAC tabletop exercise for use by state, local, and tribal public health, medical, and emergency management personnel. The exercise scenario, a New Madrid earthquake, is intended to drive specialized public health and medical assets to be deployed through EMAC in a potentially catastrophic event.
NEMA recommends a joint exercise approach between public health and emergency management to promote integrated planning and coordination. As the administrator of EMAC, the state emergency management agency can be of invaluable assistance in the exercise—as either participant or facilitator.
The tabletop exercise is currently in draft form. Materials provided below include, in order, presentation slides for six modules, a moderator instruction booklet, a facilitator/evaluator handbook, a player situation manual, and a participation feedback form. All documents are
PDF files and require Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0 or higher.
We encourage you to use the materials and provide feedback to the NEMA EMAC coordinator,
Angela Copple, with any questions or suggestions you may have.
NEMA would like to thank the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for the grant funds to support the exercise. Thank you as well to our partners at
ASTHO and
NACCHO, which provided technical support for the scenario development.
You may download each file separately using the links below, or you may download all ten as a .zip file here.
