High Priority Infectious Disease Standard Operating Guidelines

About the Program

Category: Risk and Emergency Management (Best in Category)

Year: 2023

​Pandemic planning and preparedness are vital aspects of San Bernardino County Department of Public Health’s (SBCDPH) mission to promote and improve the health, wellness, safety, and quality of life in San Bernardino County. With the world’s increasing interconnectedness, in which international and domestic travel is prevalent, and evolving land-use increases interaction between disease carrying wildlife and humans. Robust pandemic readiness has become crucial for timely and effective decision-making; as well as, efforts in pandemic prevention, mitigation, and recovery. To address the need for sound pandemic readiness, SBCDPH developed the High Priority Infectious Disease Standard Operating Guidelines (HPID SOG) in 2019, which ultimately became a useful tool during the COVID-19 pandemic response. The HPID SOG provides SBCDPH leadership and emergency responders with an overview of SBCDPH’s roles and responsibilities during an infectious disease emergency, background information on select high priority infectious diseases, guidelines for infection control and prevention, and references to navigate the County’s many disease and hazard specific plans. The HPID provides a quick reference needed to swiftly initiate and coordinate an infectious disease emergency response.