About Pacific EMPRINTS

The Pacific Emergency Management, Preparedness, and Response Information Network and Training Services (Pacific EMPRINTS) is a broad-based consortium of public and private health educators and health services providers that was established with funding from the U.S. Health and Human Services’ Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA) in late 2005. In March 2007, the program was transferred to the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR). Pacific EMPRINTS is one of only nineteen continuing education grants awarded across the nation, including grants awarded to the Yale New Haven Health System, the University of California San Francisco, and Columbia University.

Pacific EMPRINTS is a continuing education (CE) training partnership of several organizations, including the Hawaii State Civil Defense, which has statewide emergency management responsibilities for Hawaii, and the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), the world’s leading developer of geographic information systems (GIS) software. In collaboration with these and other partners below, we offer an extensive variety of online distance learning courses, face-to-face and online problem-based learning courses, podcasts, live training exercises, disaster life support training, GIS and GPS training and support, instructional lectures, and a number of other workshops and Pacific EMPRINTS-sponsored conferences to health professionals and first responders in Hawaii and the Pacific region.