Preparedness and Emergency Response Research Centers: Early Returns on Investment in Evidence-Based Public Health Systems Research

Qari, Shoukat H.; Abramson, David M.; Kushma, Jane A.; Halverson, Paul K.

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“… (1) (Anguelovski et al, ; Brown et al, ); (2) (Kehinde, ); (3) (Lizzaralde, ); (4) (Brown et al, ); (5) (Anguelovski et al, ); (6) (Bornstein et al, ; Brown et al, ); (7) (Lizzaralde, ; Sciulli et al, ; Tadele & Manyena, ); (8) (Bornstein et al, ); (9) (Anguelovski et al, ; Chelleri, Schuetze, et al, ; Chelleri, Waters, et al, ); (10) (Leinhos et al, ; Qari et al, ); (11) (Plough et al, ; Qari et al, ); (12) (Motta et al, ); (13) (Drakaki & Tzionas, ; Plough et al, ); (14) (Plough et al, ); (15) (Roberts, ); (16) (Carthey et al, ); (17) (Siri et al, ); (18) (Carthey et al, ; Plough et al, ). …”

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“…In particular, healthcare infrastructure has received scant attention in the resilience‐focussed literature, despite lessons from contexts like New Orleans, where two years after Hurricane Katrina, only one of the city's seven general hospitals was operating at pre‐hurricane levels (Carthey, Chandra, & Loosemore, ). In public health, research emphasizes the need for a systems orientation that involves many disciplines, works towards multiple interventions and leverages community resources to deliver results (Qari, Abramson, Kushma, & Halverson, ). This approach recognizes the need for institutional actors to learn from multiple other actors and continually improve their health and emergency preparedness system designs.…”

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“…Community resilience frameworks have been found to facilitate the alignment of emergency preparedness, public health and health care by highlighting the potential for synergistic impacts that reach beyond individual organizational entities (Plough et al, ; Qari et al, ). The importance of community resilience to the health domain has been recognized in both richer and poorer countries.…”

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Enabling strategies and impeding factors to urban resilience implementation: A scoping review

Therrien

Usher

Matyas

2019

Contingencies & Crisis Mgmt

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Despite growing interest in urban resilience, there is a significant gap between discourse and the capacity to develop resilience in practice. This scoping review assembles and shares evidence and insights from empirical studies of attempts to implement urban resilience published between 2005 and 2017. More precisely, it seeks to identify enabling strategies, impeding factors and trade-offs in the implementation of urban resilience. Findings are presented along the dimensions of urban resilience detailed in the City Resilience Framework (ARUP/Rockefeller Foundation): Health and Wellbeing, Economy and Society, Infrastructure and Environment, and Leadershipand Strategy (which we present as a cross-cutting theme). While some enabling and impeding factors in implementation are associated with a specific dimension, others are common to all three. Across dimensions, we find that transparent, inclusive and supportive governance reduces the risk of negative impact that resilience implementation will have on communities. Conflicting priorities of managing risk and meeting short-term needs are found to diminish the potential for transformative resilience action. Integrating risk into planning appears as a promising strategy in all dimensions of resilience. Trade-offs are found in resilience implementation, and range from adverse effects associated with infrastructure to power imbalances when the power to implement resilience privileges one system level over another. K E Y W O R D Senabling strategies, impeding factors, implementation, trade-offs, Urban resilience

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Enabling strategies and impeding factors to urban resilience implementation: A scoping review

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Matyas

2019

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“…3,4 Beginning in FY 2008, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded nine Preparedness and Emergency Response Research Centers (PERRCs) in accredited schools of public health to conduct research to strengthen public health preparedness systems. 5,6 The conceptual approach to the PERRC program goals and objectives was guided by an Institute of Medicine (IOM) letter report generated at the request of the CDC to define near-term (3-5 years) PHEPR research priorities. 4 The IOM report recommended 4 priority areas for research: 1) enhancing the usefulness of PHEPR training, 2) improving PHEPR communications, 3) creating and maintaining sustainable PHEPR systems, and 4) generating criteria and metrics to measure the efficiency and effectiveness of PHEPR system activities.…”

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“…Beginning in FY 2008, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded nine Preparedness and Emergency Response Research Centers (PERRCs) in accredited schools of public health to conduct research to strengthen public health preparedness systems 5 6 The conceptual approach to the PERRC program goals and objectives was guided by an Institute of Medicine (IOM) letter report generated at the request of the CDC to define near-term (3-5 years) PHEPR research priorities 4 .…”

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Public Health Emergency Preparedness System Evaluation Criteria and Performance Metrics: A Review of Contributions of the CDC-Funded Preparedness and Emergency Response Research Centers

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Yusuf

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ObjectivesThe US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-funded Preparedness and Emergency Response Research Centers (PERRCs) conducted research from 2008 to 2015 aimed to improve the complex public health emergency preparedness and response (PHEPR) system. This paper summarizes PERRC studies that addressed the development and assessment of criteria for evaluating PHEPR and metrics for measuring their efficiency and effectiveness.MethodsWe reviewed 171 PERRC publications indexed in PubMed between 2009 and 2016. These publications derived from 34 PERRC research projects. We identified publications that addressed the development or assessment of criteria and metrics pertaining to PHEPR systems and describe the evaluation methods used and tools developed, the system domains evaluated, and the metrics developed or assessed.ResultsWe identified 29 publications from 12 of the 34 PERRC projects that addressed PHEPR system evaluation criteria and metrics. We grouped each study into 1 of 3 system domains, based on the metrics developed or assessed: (1) organizational characteristics (n = 9), (2) emergency response performance (n = 12), and (3) workforce capacity or capability (n = 8). These studies addressed PHEPR system activities including responses to the 2009 H1N1 pandemic and the 2011 tsunami, as well as emergency exercise performance, situational awareness, and workforce willingness to respond. Both PHEPR system process and outcome metrics were developed or assessed by PERRC studies.ConclusionsPERRC researchers developed and evaluated a range of PHEPR system evaluation criteria and metrics that should be considered by system partners interested in assessing the efficiency and effectiveness of their activities. Nonetheless, the monitoring and measurement problem in PHEPR is far from solved. Lack of standard measures that are readily obtained or computed at local levels remains a challenge for the public health preparedness field. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2019;13:626-638)

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Preparedness and Emergency Response Research Centers: Early Returns on Investment in Evidence-Based Public Health Systems Research

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Enabling strategies and impeding factors to urban resilience implementation: A scoping review

Enabling strategies and impeding factors to urban resilience implementation: A scoping review

Public Health Emergency Preparedness System Evaluation Criteria and Performance Metrics: A Review of Contributions of the CDC-Funded Preparedness and Emergency Response Research Centers

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