Prepare for Pandemic Influenza (PREPARE)
Overview
The Promoting Emergency Preparedness and Readiness for Pandemic Influenza (PREPARE for PI) Project will enable participating public health departments to apply quality improvement (QI) methods to enhance their preparedness for a potential pandemic influenza outbreak. This is one of a series of projects conducted by RAND and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to improve public health emergency preparedness and response.
Additionally, for this project RAND is partnering with the Center for Health Care Quality at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, an organization with extensive experience in designing and carrying out quality improvement collaboratives in both health care and public health, and in adapting the improvement principles for different settings.
Goals
The PREPARE for PI project builds on RAND's previous work by seeking to discover new methods for public health quality improvement. Specifically, the project aims to identify how best to apply successful QI methods from health care and business to public health agencies.
To accomplish this, the project fosters a creative partnership between health services researchers, quality improvement experts, and local and state health departments. Specific goals of the project include:
- Enabling plans for pandemic influenza to be tested via routine tasks as well as responses to natural or simulated disasters
- Identifying and testing changes to current processes that will improve PI preparedness
- Developing sets of practical measures that can be used by public health agencies to enhance overall PI preparedness
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More Information
For more information, contact:
Amy Borgert
3333 Burnet Ave.
MLC 7014
Cincinnati, OH 45229
513-636-0161
