NIOSH Emergency Preparedness and Response Program: Evidence Package for 2007-2017

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  After the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, followed shortly by the anthrax letter attacks, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) created a coordinated emergency preparedness and response program in 2002 to improve its ability to respond to future emergencies and disasters. While initially focusing on terrorism events, NIOSH expanded the program to include research and response planning that protects workers across a range of incidents including, but not limited to, major natural and chemical disasters, terrorist attacks or threats, nuclear accidents, and infectious disease outbreaks. NIOSH is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and serves as the lead for occupational safety and health during responses. To accomplish this, the NIOSH Emergency Preparedness and Response (EPR) Program focuses on two areas of activities: preparedness and response. While we may not be able to predict the next emergency, we can prepare for them and respond when they occur. The EPR Program activities described in this package reflect both intramural (work within NIOSH) and extramural (work funded by NIOSH through grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements). The combined intramural and extramural components of the Program described within this package received a total of $40.3 million in funding between fiscal years 2007 and 2017. Nearly 21% of these funds came from supplemental response funding to support the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and the Ebola epidemic. Current events strongly shape the EPR Program priorities. Emergencies, whether a natural disaster or an emerging infectious disease, dictate and influence the direction of the work. The EPR Program must remain flexible and be responsive to new focus areas and objectives that emerge from newly issued federal policy, plans, and initiatives; responses to emergencies; national level exercises; and emergency supplemental funding. The EPR Program, a critical element of the overall NIOSH portfolio, is designated a core and specialty program. EPR contributed to the research and service goals set in the current NIOSH Strategic Plan. This evidence package presents the most significant efforts in the areas of preparedness and response completed by the EPR Program over the past decade. These activities are described in three chapters. The first two chapters focus on specific long-term, high-priority projects for the Program: Emergency Responder Health Monitoring and Surveillance System (ERHMS(TM)) and NIOSH Efforts to Increase Anthrax Preparedness and Response Capabilities. The last chapter, Emergency Preparedness Activities and Responses, presents a wide range of chemical, radiation, natural disaster, and infectious disease preparedness and response activities. Each chapter includes details about the inputs, research and translation activities, research findings and products, partners who assist NIOSH in transferring its activities into practice, and evidence that shows the use of NIOSH products and actions.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Dust Environmental Monitoring Glass Occupational Health Preceptorship Preventive Medicine Safety
• Keywords:
  Disaster Response Emergency Preparedness And Response Cross-Sector Research Program National Occupational Research Agenda NORA Review Process Worker Health
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Contract
• Genre:
  Other
• Place as Subject:
  Georgia ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-233
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20057145
• Citation:
  Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Contract 200-2017-F-00618, 2018 May; :1-233
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2018
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/181801/cdc_181801_DS1.pdf
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