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Project Title:
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Research Priorities in Emergency Preparedness and Response for Public Health Systems
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PIN:
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HSPX-H-07-11-A
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Major Unit:
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Institute of Medicine
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Sub Unit:
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Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice
Board on Health Sciences Policy
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RSO:
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Altevogt, Bruce
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Project Scope
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In response to a request from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response (COTPER), an ad hoc committee of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) will conduct a study and issue a letter report to the director of COTPER by February 15, 2008. The report will delineate a set of near-term research priorities for emergency preparedness and response in public health systems that are relevant to the specific expertise resident at schools of public health. These priorities will be used by COTPER to develop a set of research funding opportunity announcements and requests for proposals (RFPs) that must be issued and filled, according to congressional mandate, during the 2008 fiscal year. As such, the committee will be responsible for identifying 3-5 priority research areas, each of which may also include related short-term research opportunities-all with measurable outcomes and impact over the next 3 to 5 years. As a framework for their deliberations, the committee will consider areas of interest specifically articulated in the CDC's Advancing the Nation's Health: A Guide for Public Health Research Needs, 2006-2015, with special attention given to:
- Protecting vulnerable populations in emergencies (improving the identification of health vulnerability and evaluating interventions to lessen the risk of poor health outcomes);
- Strengthening response systems (developing and evaluating integrated systems of emergency public health services and incident management),
- Preparing the public health workforce (developing and evaluating strategies and tools to train and exercise the public health workforce to meet responsibilities for detection, mitigation, and recovery in varied settings and populations),
- Improving timely emergency communications (evaluating characteristics of effective risk communication in emergency settings and system enhancements to improve effective information exchange across diverse partners and populations under emergency conditions), and
- Improving information management to increase use (scenario modeling and forecasting; information and knowledge management tools to improve the availability and usefulness during crisis decision-making).
The identified research priorities for public health systems should not focus on agent-specific research questions such as development of high-throughput diagnostic tests or medical countermeasures.
This project is sponsored by the CDC's Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response. The approximate start date is November 1, 2007. The committee will be issueing a letter report at the completion of the project, approximately 4 months from the start.
This project is sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention.
The approximate start date for the project is November 1, 2007.
A letter report will be issued at the end of the project in approximately 4 months.
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Project Duration:
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4 months
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