EMORY PREPAREDNESS AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE CENTER

描述(由申请人提供)：Emory PERRC的首要使命是支持产生知识的创新研究，以指导地方、州和联邦公共卫生领导创建和维护可持续的准备和应急响应系统。我们的建议包括五个相互依存的研究项目(公共卫生系统准备研究；事件指挥和紧急行动中心；学术-社区合作准备；改善疗养院、家庭健康和透析提供者的灾害规划；免疫系统和公共卫生准备)，一个新的博士生和研究员参与的研究计划，以及一个创新的试点项目计划。总体而言，我们将检查地方和州公共卫生系统的准备和应急响应的组织特征(例如，管理、结构和员工队伍)，包括紧急操作中心。我们还将评估免疫系统和登记处、毒物控制中心、学术机构和医疗保健提供者为选定的医疗脆弱人群提供的反应能力和互操作性。支持这一研究任务的是一个综合数据环境，该环境将连接研究数据库，以便进行跨学科协作，并促进及时传播成果。拟议的研究在接受调查的人群、其规模、验证各组织的反应的能力以及其综合和多学科分析方面是独一无二的。这类研究可以确定防备和应急的最佳做法和能力评估，以改善各地理区域公共卫生机构的业绩，并利用医疗保健系统和学术机构的资产。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overarching mission of the Emory PERRC is to support innovative research that generates knowledge to guide local, state, and federal public health leadership in creating and maintaining sustainable preparedness and emergency response systems. Our proposal includes five interdependent research projects (Public Health Systems Research on Preparedness; Incident Command and Emergency Operations Centers; Academic-Community Partnerships in Preparedness; Improving Disaster Planning for Nursing Home, Home Health and Dialysis Providers; Immunization Systems and Public Health Preparedness), a new investigator program involving doctoral students and fellows, and an innovative pilot project program. Collectively, we will examine the organizational characteristics (e.g., administration, structure, and workforce) of local and state public health systems for preparedness and emergency response, including emergency operations centers. We will also assess the response capacity and interoperability of immunization systems and registries, poison control centers, academic institutions, and healthcare providers for selected medically vulnerable populations. Supporting this research mission is an integrated data environment that will link research databases for cross-disciplinary collaboration and facilitate timely dissemination of results. The studies proposed are unique in the populations surveyed, their scale, their capacity to validate responses across organizations, and their integrated and multidisciplinary analyses. Such research can result in identifying best practices and capability assessments for preparedness and emergency response to improve performance of public health agencies across geographic areas and leverage assets from healthcare systems and academic institutions.