The varied activities of the office focus on strengthening existing partnerships among the public health, healthcare and emergency management planning communities. Efforts concentrate on building and sustaining aggressive collaborative response to public health emergencies focusing on an effective and efficient utilization of all resources. Achievement is evidenced at all levels of government, and with the private sector. These comply with the National Response Framework (NRF) and the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and the State of Michigan Homeland Security Strategy.