A time to act.

It’s been 1 year since the American Medical Association closed the Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health and stopped supporting its preparedness and response programs. To ensure the continuation and potential growth of these programs as vital components of the evolving discipline of disaster medicine and public health, 2 major transitions were undertaken. The first was to revise the National Disaster Life Support suite of courses, which has been given to more than 100 000 health responders, to ensure that the material was academically sound and competency based. These courses were subsequently assumed by the National Disaster Life Support Foundation, and, 1 year later, are being provided to expanded audiences in the United States and globally, and at a significant discount, as compared to previously.