The Deployment Teams are made up of members of various divisions within the Office of Health Services and the Medical Reserve Corps. The team members receive specialized training in emergency response and disaster preparedness. The Deployment Teams are trained and equipped for the following FEMA Team Types:

Environmental Health Emergency Response

The role of environmental health staff in a public health emergency, such as a natural or man-made disaster, will vary according to the type (e.g., terrorist-related, flood, tornado, fire, or prolonged power outage) and severity of the situation. Environmental health staff has the primary responsibility for the "health" of a community following a disaster. This includes basic services such as food safety, water supply, shelter, sanitation, and waste management that need to be reestablished.

Medical Needs Shelter

The purpose of the Medical Needs Shelter is to provide safe and temporary housing to individuals who require support with their medical needs. Medical Needs Shelters are available for people who have home care medical conditions that cannot be accommodated in a regular shelter.

Mass Prophylaxis/Vaccination

The emergency Mass Prophylaxis Plan is the countywide plan for large-scale antibiotic or vaccine dispensing in the rare event of an infectious disease emergency.

Receiving, Staging, Storing

The process of accepting, storing, and locally organizing large amounts of medications needed for a large-scale distribution via the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) and Vendor Managed Inventories (VMIs).

Epidemiology (Surveillance and Investigation) Strike Team

This team performs the following functions:

1. Manages and provides epidemiological surveillance and investigation, augments in-place epidemiological functions
2. Manages, implements and monitors ordered control measures, including isolation and quarantine

Radiation Population Monitoring

Population Monitoring in Radiation Emergencies focuses on the significant effort to identify, screen, measure, and monitor populations (people and their pets) for exposure to radiation or contamination from radioactive materials. The establishing of community reception centers (CRCs) to provide contamination screening and decontamination services to people displaced by a large-scale radiation incident. The monitoring of food ingestion pathways within the fifty-mile Emergency Protective Zone around Nuclear Plants that falls in Middlesex County.

Logistical Support

Manage the Office of Health Services inventory and warehouse operations of materials, supplies, vehicles, light towers, massage boards, generators, trailers, equipment, and other assets. Provides for the maintenance, calibration, movement, setup, operations, and take down of assets and supplies during events and emergencies.