A CDC Preparedness and Emergency Response Research Center
About PHASYS
CDC Awards $10.9 Million for Preparedness Research Centers at Seven Schools of Public Health
Public Health Adaptive Systems Studies is a new project funded through a five-year grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response. Located in the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH) Centers for Public Health Practice, PHASYS will conduct research to develop, test, and apply criteria and metrics for measuring the effectiveness and efficiency of preparedness and emergency response to hazards with public health consequences. PHASYS is one of eight funded centers in the nation at accredited schools of public health and draws faculty from GSPH, the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, the School of Medicine, the Brookings Institution, the NIH - Modeling Infectious Disease Agent Study, and the Health Officers Association of California. A central assumption of the four research cores within PHASYS is that the public health system must adapt from its routine functioning in order to be effective in an emergency. The research cores will take two parallel approaches to understanding this adaptive response: original research on criteria and metrics for public health systems, and agent-based systems modeling. Utilizing an infectious disease outbreak as its initial focus, the research will later progress to exploring an all hazards approach.
Core and Project Arms
- Administrative Core
- 1 - Adaptive Response
Indicators - 2 - Legal and Ethical
Indicators - 3 - Prep. and Adaptive
Response Model - 4 - Decision-Support
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