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Lessons From Boston
RWJF Clinical Scholar Jeremiah Schuur, MD, an emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, helped treat many of the Boston Marathon bombing victims. Here's what he learned.
Emergency Preparedness and Response
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Public Health Response to Hurricane Sandy
Hurricane Sandy presented some of the greatest public health and emergency preparedness challenges from extreme weather in recent history, leaving dozens dead, and millions without power across a wide swath of the Northeast. This superstorm tested the capabilities of the public health system, and public health officials responded in heroic fashion. Public Health is there to help keep our communities safe and healthy before, through, and after storms like Hurricane Sandy.
How Ready is Your State for a Health Emergency?
Ready or Not? Protecting the Public from Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism
The 10th annual Ready or Not? report from the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation shows persistent gaps in states’ preparedness to respond to events ranging from bioterrorist threats to hurricanes to serious disease outbreaks.
Focus on Public Health
Geographic Variations in Public Health Spending
As state and local health departments cope with budget cuts, job losses, and the demands of preparing communities for both seasonal and H1N1 flu, it’s more important than ever to build the evidence for what works—and what is cost-effective—in public health. Public Health Services and Systems Research answers questions about how public health can be structured, managed, staffed, funded, and organized so it can improve the lives of the people it serves.
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Report Finds Preparedness for Bioterror and Health Emergencies Eroding in States Across the Country
December 19, 2011 | News Release
Cuts to key programs could hurt ability to detect and respond to crises.
Protecting the Mental Health of First Responders
March 10, 2011 | Journal Article
The public safety, human services, health, and relief workers who comprise the first wave of a response to natural or man-made disasters play a critical role in emergency preparedness.
A Quality Improvement Collaborative Can Boost Emergency Preparedness, Study Finds
September 30, 2009 | Program Result
RAND Corporation spurred the use of quality improvement - a data-driven approach to performance often used in industry, the military and health care - to boost emergency preparedness among state and local public health agencies.
Case Studies of Five Regional Public Health Structures - How They Contribute to Public Health Preparedness
May 12, 2009 | Program Result
In this 2006 to 2007 project, Michael A. Stoto, PhD, and a team of researchers and public health officials at RAND Corporation and elsewhere conducted case studies of five regional public health structures and then compared them.
Utilizing a Pediatric Emergency Preparedness Toolkit
August 11, 2009 | Story
Using the toolkit, hospitals can improve the overall quality of pediatric emergency care across the country by meeting national guidelines for care issued by ACEP and the AAP.
Using Quality Improvement Methods to Improve Public Health Emergency Preparedness: PREPARE for Pandemic Influenza
January 7, 2009 | Story
Researchers demonstrate that a quality improvement (QI) collaborative model implemented in public health departments can improve their emergency preparedness and performance overall.
PREPARE for Pandemic Influenza
January 1, 2008 | Toolkit
This toolkit was developed with the input of health departments from across the country, including those who participated in the 2006-2007 PREPARE [Promoting Emergency Preparedness and Readiness] for Pandemic Influenza (PI) Quality Improvement learning collaborative.
Global Public Health Legal Responses to H1N1
March 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Pandemics challenge the law and often highlight its strengths or expose its limits.
Public Health Preparedness Laws and Policies
March 10, 2011 | Journal Article
The detection and spread of pandemic 2009 H1N1 influenza in the United States led to a complex and multifaceted response by the public health system that lasted more than a year, testing virtually every aspect of U.S. public health preparedness and response systems, from laboratory capabilities and capacities to social distancing plans.
Five Legal Preparedness Challenges for Responding to Future Public Health Emergencies
March 1, 2011 | Journal Article
The 2009 H1N1 pandemic provided an unprecedented opportunity to implement and exercise many of these mechanisms.