Per the HSIN Portal, the Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) sector is "one of 18 Critical Infrastructures/Key Resources (CI/KR) outlined in the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP). HPH's mission is to "sustain the essential functions of the Nation's healthcare and public health delivery system and to support effective emergency preparedness and response to nationally significant hazards by implementing strategies, evaluating risks, coordinating plans and policy advice, and providing guidance to prepare, protect, prevent, and when necessary, respond to attacks on the Nation's infrastructure and ensure the necessary resiliency in infrastructure to recover and reconstitute healthcare and public health. The HPH sector "is made up of a Government Coordinating Council (GCC) that represents governmental agencies, at all levels, and the Sector Coordinating Council (SCC)". Also see "SCC" and "GCC" for more information