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Published in final edited form as: J Emerg Manag. 2019 May-Jun;17(3):199–209. doi: 10.5055/jem.2019.0418

Table 2.

Inclusion criteria for FG participants

Description of response duties	FG composition	Number of FGs
Full-time preparedness and response duties (>50 percent of day job)	OPHPR^* staff with full time public health preparedness and response roles	1 (n = 8)
	Agency wide (non-OPHPR)^† staff with full-time public health preparedness and response roles	1 (n = 7)
Part-time preparedness and response duties (<50 percent of day job)	CDC Emergency Coordinators	1 (n = 5)
	CDC field-based staff with preparedness and response duties (eg, CDC fellows, Epidemic Intelligence Service Officers, quarantine station staff [by phone])	1 (n = 6)
Response duties only when activated to support incident or exercise	Staff deployed to field	2 (n =14)
	Staff deployed to EOC/IMS functional desk	2 (n =11)

CDC’s Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response.

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CDC’s National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, and Center for Global Health.