The Practice of China CDC’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC)

Background: The EOC of Chinese Center for disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) was officially established in 2016, which has become the core department for the public health emergencies and risk response. In recent years, we have continued to improve and summarize the EOC's role and functions in different events. And we also want to share the construction status and operation management experience of the EOC of China CDC. It is also to promote the construction of global emergency operation management system.Main text: We searched the websites of WHO, USCDC and ECDC for the EOC-related concepts. And through expert interviews and personal communication with experts, we collected relevant opinions and identify additional published literature, then described the current situation of construction of China CDC’s EOC. For EOC, different organizations / agencies have different definitions. In China, the EOC is a place where CDC organizes and conducts the related emergency response work. And it is also an important part of public health emergency system construction. The China CDC’s EOC had developed a series of incident action plan (IAP) and the standardized forms for each incident. The event-specific data, context-specific data and event management data are usually obtained by different system and channel. The China CDC’s EOC would improve the staff’s abilities through an ongoing series of training and exercises. Comparing with before, the efficiency of incident response has been greatly increased after the establishment of EOC.Conclusions: The China CDC’s EOC is still growing and groping phase. It is necessary to continue theoretical learning and practice to continuously improve the capacity of the construction and operations of the EOC system. We need continued close collaboration and partnership with international organizations to enable more to be accomplished through leveraging individual institutional strengths. The standardize approach to respond to public health emergencies meet global standards needs.