title: Academic-community partnerships for sustainable preparedness and response systems.
abstract: Academic institutions possess tremendous resources that could be important for community disaster response and preparedness activities. In-depth exploration of the role of academic institutions in community disaster response has elicited information about particular academic resources leveraged for and essential to community preparedness and response; factors that contribute to the decision-making process for partner engagement; and facilitators of and barriers to sustainable collaborations from the perspectives of academic institutions, public health and emergency management agencies, and national association and agency leaders. The Academic-Community Partnership Project of the Emory University Preparedness and Emergency Response Research Center in collaboration with the Association of Schools of Public Health convened an invitational summit which included leadership from the National Association of County and City Health Officials, Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, Directors of Public Health Preparedness, Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, CDC Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response, Association of Schools of Public Health, Association of American Medical Colleges, Association of Academic Health Centers, American Association of Colleges of Nursing, Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, and American Association of Poison Control Centers. From this convention, emerged recommendations for building and sustaining academic-public health-community collaborations for preparedness locally and regionally.
authors: Associate Professor, Executive Director, Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response, Project PI, Preparedness and Emergency Response Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
authors: Alexander
authors: A
authors: Isakov
authors: Director for Health Protection, Georgia Department of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia.
authors: Patrick
authors: P
authors: O'Neal
authors: Chief Academic Officer, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC.
authors: John
authors: J
authors: Prescott
authors: Senior Director of Education Policy, American Association of Colleges of Nursing, Washington, DC.
authors: Joan
authors: J
authors: Stanley
authors: Sr Advisor & Chief, Public Health Programs, National Association of County and City Health Officials, Washington, DC.
authors: Jack
authors: J
authors: Herrmann
authors: Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Project Co-PI, Preparedness and Emergency Response Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
authors: Anne
authors: A
authors: Dunlop
mesh_terms: D002959:Civil Defense / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004189:Disaster Planning / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D014495:Universities