Emory to Lead a Regional Disaster Health Response System Site
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) has awarded Emory University a $3 million cooperative agreement to lead a Regional Disaster Health Response System (RDHRS) site. The Emory-based site is the fourth site designated by ASPR to develop a regional healthcare response approach to disasters. Emory University will lead a team of collaborators from the Georgia Department of Public Health, Augusta University and the University of Georgia for the most recently designated RDHRS. The RDHRS aims to improve medical surge and clinical specialty care – including trauma, burn, communicable diseases, radiation injury and other specialty care – during a national emergency, improve statewide and regional situational awareness, and develop metrics for the region’s capabilities in order to save more lives.
“The Southern Regional Disaster Health Response System aims to optimize clinical surge capacity, provide clinical expertise to support health care surge planning, and ensure that appropriate clinical expertise is involved and empowered as a collaborator in emergency planning and response,” says Alexander Isakov, MD, MPH, professor in Emory’s Department of Emergency Medicine and executive director of Emory’s Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response (CEPAR).
Link to Emory's News Center Story here. The news release from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services can be found here.
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