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Local Health Department Enrollment
The following steps outline how a Local Health Department employee would sign-up and register for access to SIREN/HAN.
SIREN (State of Illinois Rapid Electronic Notification), has a self-registration process at www.siren.illinois.gov to receive important notifications from The Illinois Department of Public Health.
For more in-depth guidance on how to register, please see the linked guidance in the Resources.
- When selecting your organizations, filter using IDPH, then click on the gray Select Organization button.
- Expand DPH – LHD & DPH – LHD Counties.
- Click the checkbox next to your Local Health Department.
- Expand to select all the sub-organizations based on the type of alerts you are wanting to receive. Only select your LHD and the sub-organizations listed below as you will be rejected out of all others.
- LHD Administrator
- Chief Veterinarian
- Communicable Disease Coordinator-Epidemiologist-Surveillance
- Emergency Response and Preparedness
- Environmental Health – Sanitarian
- INEDSS
- Immunization Director
- LHD TB Contacts
- Laboratory Director
- PH Medical Director
- PH PIO
- PRA (Portal Registration Authority)
- Public Health Nurse and Nursing Director
- SNS Coordinator
- VFC Contractor
- WIC
- Please use your firstname.lastname as your username.
- Ex) john.smith
- The password must adhere to the password requirements.
- Ensure that you add your work email, work phone, and an alternate phone (mobile phone or home phone) where SIREN can reach you in the event of an emergency.
- If you wish to receive Text Messages, please add the option SMS/Text MSG with each appropriate mobile phone number.
- Add the SIREN phone number (866-998-3678) to your mobile contacts. This will help you determine when you are getting a SIREN alert notification and not a toll-free caller.
- You can also add the SIREN text message numbers (246-39 & 542-92) to your newly created contact.
Please let us know if you have any questions and we would be happy to assist dph.siren@illinois.gov