The National Center’s Joint Disaster Medicine and Public Health Ecosystem
As a federal organization established to serve as the Nation’s center of academic excellence in disaster medicine and public health, we must recognize that excellence is present throughout the Nation. No one center can advance disaster medicine and public health in all the critical ways needed to ready our Nation for future disasters. With this understanding, the National Center has adopted a partnership-centric model, serving primarily as a conduit for the mobilization of excellence in disaster medicine and public health across the Nation. Under this model, we have established a Joint Disaster Medicine and Public Health Ecosystem to bring together knowledge and capabilities for advancing the Nation’s readiness for disasters.
The Joint Disaster Medicine and Public Health Ecosystem serves as a national resource and is comprised of leading organizations across the Nation that have demonstrated excellence in disaster medicine and public health. The Ecosystem may be leveraged before, during, and after disaster-level events for the purpose of advancing science, operations, and education in preparing for, and response to, disasters and other health emergencies. Ecosystem partners work with the National Center and the federal interagency to conduct science, carry out operational research, and develop training and education for advancing the practice of medicine and public health in disasters.