Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response

Structure

CEPAR is an office of the Johns Hopkins Institutions. It oversees an enterprise-wide, inter-entity effort to coordinate the efforts of Johns Hopkins to enhance Homeland Security and to address potential disasters. CEPAR is not meant to supplant the existing disaster-response command and control structures of individual Johns Hopkins University/Johns Hopkins Medicine enterprises. Although each component of the Johns Hopkins Health System and University maintains its own disaster plan, CEPAR sets priorities for all Johns Hopkins Institutions if a disaster overwhelms one entity or involves two or more of them. It has the authority to tap every asset of the Hopkins enterprise – and to speak as the official, unified voice on behalf of all of Johns Hopkins.> CEPAR is directed by the chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine and supported by the Emergency Department Chief Administrator. Daily activity is managed by the Director of Operations.