Even modest evaluation efforts will increase knowledge and advance preparedness.
The dramatic effect of the 2006 heat wave on ED visits suggests that advance preparedness efforts should be undertaken to allow rapid adaptability when extreme weather events occur.
Still, Chile's solid infrastructure and advanced disaster-preparedness made it far less devastating than the 12 January quake in Haiti.
That can happen, if we now use lessons from Zika to advance our preparedness for this and other infectious diseases that are sure to come.
The unprecedented assistance by the International Partner Community in advancing pandemic preparedness efforts was a catalyst for the creation of a national coordinating entity in May 2006: National Avian and Human Influenza Coordinating Office NAHICOO).
There are also attributes of BENS business model that have facilitated collaboration with public health, including their: BENS' mission-level focus is on national security, and its Business Force program is dedicated to collaboration with state and local governments to advance emergency preparedness.
Thus advanced planning and preparedness for implementation of such policies during epidemics and pandemics is needed.
These include raising awareness, advancing forecasting, enhancing preparedness and improving governance.
The focus here is on education, healthcare, emergency preparedness, public safety, advanced manufacturing and clean energy and transportation.
Level of preparedness - While EPRP has advanced, there continues to be a lag in implementing preparedness activities.
" Advances in preparedness were also described in more personal terms: "I can speak straight with him [a colleague in business] in a way that couldn't be done earlier".
