A number of city, state, and federal agencies are involved in emergency preparedness:

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) – FEMA’s mission is to support citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain, and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards. http://www.fema.gov

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) - Homeland Security leverages resources within federal, state, and local governments, coordinating the transition of multiple agencies and programs into a single, integrated agency focused on protecting the American people and their homeland. More than 87,000 different governmental jurisdictions at the federal, state, and local level have homeland security responsibilities. The comprehensive national strategy seeks to develop a system connecting all levels of government without duplicating effort. Homeland Security is truly a “national mission.” http://www.dhs.gov

United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) - The Department of Health and Human Services is the principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans. http://www.hhs.gov/

Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) - MEMA is the state agency with primary responsibility for ensuring the state’s resilience to disasters. MEMA’s staff of professional planners, communications specialists, operations managers and support personnel is committed to an all hazards approach to emergency management. By building and sustaining effective partnerships with federal, state and local government agencies, and with the private sector - - individuals, families, non-profits and businesses - - MEMA ensures the Commonwealth’s ability to rapidly recover from large and small disasters by assessing and mitigating hazards, enhancing preparedness, ensuring effective response, and building the capacity to recover. http://www.mass.gov/mema

Massachusetts Dept. of Public Health (MDPH) - The Massachusetts Department of Public Health has responsibility for the public health of state residents. http://www.mass.gov/dph

Boston Mayor’s Office of Emergency Management (OEM) – The Mayor's Office of Emergency Management (OEM) coordinates the city's homeland security and emergency management programs. OEM's mission is to enhance the city of Boston and metro-Boston Homeland Security Region's capacity to prevent, protect against, respond to, and recover from major emergencies. http://www.cityofboston.gov/OEM/

Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) – The Boston Public Health Commission’s mission is to protect, promote, and preserve the health and well-being of all Boston residents, particularly the most vulnerable. http://www.bphc.org

DelValle Institute of Emergency Preparedness - The DelValle Institute for Emergency Preparedness provides high quality all-hazards training for public health, health care, and public safety personnel, with a focus on chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive incident preparedness, response, and recovery. The DelValle Institute is a program of Boston EMS and the Boston Public Health Commission.
http://www.bphc.org/programs/emsep/emergencypreparedness/delvalle/Pages/Home.aspx

Harvard School of Public Health – Center for Public Health Preparedness (HPSH-CPHP) - Originally established in 2004 in response to a CDC funding opportunity for professional training, the public health preparedness activities at HSPH have grown into a comprehensive and integrated portfolio of activities spanning knowledge production, reproduction, and translation. The activities build on one another in terms of substantive content and collaboration with public health practitioners. Through these and other professional activities, HSPH-CPHP faculty and staff have become regional and national leaders in all aspects of public health emergency preparedness, engaging on a regular basis with leading federal officials as well as state and local public health leaders in Massachusetts and New England.
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hcphp/