Public health emergencies rarely unfold with complete information. Whether responding to an infectious disease outbreak, environmental hazard, emerging biological threat, or other public health crisis, teams must assess evolving risks, build situational awareness, coordinate across agencies, and make critical decisions under uncertainty.
CAPTRS helps public health professionals practice these challenges in a realistic and engaging way. Public health preparedness involves more than knowing the plan. It requires understanding how decisions ripple across organizations, healthcare systems, communities, and response operations. CAPTRS games provide a practical, repeatable way to strengthen decision-making, collaboration, and readiness while generating meaningful discussion and lessons learned that support continuous improvement.
Players work through realistic outbreaks and public health emergencies, balancing competing priorities while assessing threats, managing uncertainty, and adapting to changing conditions. Teams practice surveillance, risk assessment, resource allocation, and operational decision-making in a realistic environment.
Public health response depends on collaboration. CAPTRS games help teams practice working with healthcare systems, emergency management, elected officials, laboratories, schools, private-sector partners, and community organizations to build a coordinated response.
Effective communication is critical during public health incidents. Participants practice communicating with leadership, partner agencies, healthcare stakeholders, and the public while managing misinformation, changing guidance, and evolving risk assessments.
As scenarios unfold, players gather information, identify emerging threats, and develop a shared understanding of the operating environment. This helps teams practice recognizing when conditions require escalation, activation, or changes in strategy.
CAPTRS games are HSEEP-aligned and include a digital insights platform that captures decisions and exercise data. Teams receive reports, discussion points, and analytics that can support after-action reviews, improvement planning, and preparedness initiatives.
Scenarios can address infectious disease outbreaks, emerging biological risks, environmental health incidents, healthcare system strain, mass prophylaxis challenges, and other complex public health emergencies. Custom scenarios can also be developed to align with your organization's priorities and preparedness goals.
Break down silos. Align your response. Lead with clarity.
Cross-agency coordination, activation decisions, command structures, communication flows, and multi-entity response alignment
Master ICS roles quickly.
Fast, approachable practice for Incident Command System role clarity and NIMS familiarity
Assess the threat. Align with your team. Activate a response.
Threat assessment under uncertainty, shared situational awareness, activation triggers and activation decisions
