Enabling rapid and sustainable public health research during disasters : summary of a joint workshop by the Institute of Medicine and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services / Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events ; Board on Health Science Policy ; Megan Reeve, Theresa Wizemann, and Bruce Altevogt, Rapporteurs ; Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

"Over the past decade, preparedness and response capacities of government agencies, hospitals and clinics, public health agencies, and academic researchers in the United States and abroad have been challenged by a succession of public health emergencies, ranging from radiological threats to pandemic...

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