EMORY PREPAREDNESS AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE CENTER

描述（由申请人提供）：Emory PERRC的首要任务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；学术社区准备伙伴关系；改善养老院、家庭健康和透析提供者的灾难规划；免疫系统和公共卫生准备），一个涉及博士生和研究员的新研究项目，以及一个创新的试点项目计划。总的来说，我们将检查组织特征（例如，管理，结构和劳动力）的地方和国家公共卫生系统的准备和应急响应，包括应急操作中心。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对选定的医学弱势群体的反应能力和互操作性。支持这项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，以便进行跨学科合作，并促进及时传播结果。拟议的研究在调查人群、规模、验证跨组织响应的能力以及综合和多学科分析方面都是独一无二的。此类研究可以确定准备和应急响应的最佳实践和能力评估，以提高跨地理区域的公共卫生机构的绩效，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.