The nation's medical countermeasure stockpile - opportunities to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability of the CDC strategic national stockpile : workshop summary / Anna Nicholson, [and three others], rapporteurs.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Nicholson, Anna, rapporteur.

Contributor:

Nicholson, Anna, contributor.

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Board on Health Sciences Policy, issuing body.

Conference Name:

Nation's Medical Countermeasure Stockpile: Opportunities to Improve the Sustainability of the CDC Strategic National Stockpile (Workshop) (2016 : Washington, D.C.), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Strategic National Stockpile (Program).

Disaster medicine--United States.

Disaster medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (143 pages) : illustrations, tables

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : National Academies Press, 2016.

Summary:

Large catastrophic events, or rare acute events, may cause situations in which a local jurisdiction's medicines and medical supplies are not sufficient to provide care to the population it serves. In these cases of natural or engineered disasters, such as a terrorist attack, influenza pandemic, or earthquake, state or local authorities can request that the federal government provide assets from the Strategic National Stockpile to augment the state and local jurisdictions' resources. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) is the nation's repository of antibiotics, chemical antidotes, antitoxins, vaccines, antiviral drugs, and other medical materiel designed to supplement and resupply state and local public health agencies in the event of an emergency. The materiel is intended to support national health security and is managed by the Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response's (OPHPR's) Division of Strategic National Stockpile (DSNS). The stated mission of the SNS is to prepare and support partners and provide the right resources at the right time to secure the nation's health. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine organized a two-day public workshop to explore opportunities to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainable methods used by the CDC's SNS to distribute medical countermeasures and other supplies during disasters and other public health emergencies, especially those which result in disruption of physical infrastructure such as the electrical grid, central roadways, bridges, and tunnels within the impacted community. Participants explored relevant distribution lessons learned from other federal agency stockpiles and the private sector as well as opportunities to develop public-private collaborations in the purchase, warehousing, management, and distribution of medical countermeasures. This report summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.

Contents:

Introduction, background, and context

The strategic national stockpile: origin, policy foundations, and federal context

Studies and reports related to the strategic national stockpile

Potential opportunities for restructuring strategic national stockpile scope, governance, and decision making

Reaching the last mile: potential opportunities to improve coordination and communication among local, state, and federal agencies

Potential supply-chain opportunities and lessons from the commercial sector and government partners

Wrap-up.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 24, 2016).

ISBN:

9780309443708

0309443709

9780309443685

0309443687