Ensuring an Effective Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise

By: Board on Health Sciences Policy • National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine • Health and Medicine Division • Committee on Reviewing the Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise

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Synopsis

The U.S. medical countermeasures (MCMs) enterprise is interconnected, complex, and dynamic. It includes public and private entities that develop and manufacture new and existing MCMs, ensure procurement, storage, and distribution of MCMs, and administer, monitor, and evaluate MCMs. The interagency group known as the Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise (PHEMCE) is the nation’s sole coordinating body, responsible for ensuring end-to-end MCM preparedness and response. Ensuring an Effective Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise provides recommendations from an expert committee for a re-envisioned PHEMCE. Four priority areas of improvement emerged from committee deliberations: (1) articulating PHEMCE’s mission and role and explicating the principles guiding PHEMCE’s operating principles and processes, (2) revising PHEMCE operations and processes, (3) collaborating more effectively with external public and private partners, and (4) navigating legal and policy issues.

Book Details

Book Quality:
ISBN-13:: 9780309271523
Publisher:: The National Academies Press
Date of Addition:: 2022-02-01T15:33:23Z
Language:: English
Categories:: Nonfiction,
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.