Improving Public Health Crisis Response: Better Communication and After-Action Review.
This law mandates the Department of Health (HHS) to establish a permanent after-action program to systematically review and fix issues identified during public health emergency responses. It also requires a new risk communication strategy ensuring that health warnings are clear, accurate, and accessible in multiple languages, significantly improving public safety and information dissemination during future crises.
Key points
HHS must create a mandatory after-action program to identify failures and implement solutions following any public health emergency, ensuring lessons learned are applied across all agencies.
A new risk communication strategy is required to make public health warnings clear, culturally sensitive, and translated into the most commonly spoken languages to reach all at-risk populations.
The program includes detailed reviews of supply chain management, hospital coordination, resource allocation (crisis standards of care), and accelerating the development and distribution of medical countermeasures.
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