This report satisfies the first deliverable specified in Framework Contract Specific No. 01, implementing OC/EFSA/SCER/2020/01; namely, to set out a four-year crisis training package that meets EFSA's overall and specific objectives for project. Guided by desk research into current strategic operational context, interaction with internal external stakeholders culminating meeting during February...

The COVID-19 crisis quickly drew attention to shortages of critical supplies in complex, global healthcare, and food supply chains, despite emergency pandemic plans existing many countries. Borders factories closed through lockdowns slowly reopened under different working arrangements, causing chains struggle respond this crisis, with severe impact on GDPs internationally. Ironically, communica...

OBJECTIVE To demonstrate the application of economics to health care preparedness by estimating the financial return on investment in a substate regional emergency response team and to develop a financial model aimed at sustaining community-level disaster readiness. METHODS Economic evaluation methods were applied to the experience of a regional Pennsylvania response capability. A cost-benefi...

UNLABELLED Guidelines for the design of emergency communications were derived from primary research and interrogation of the literature. The guidelines were used to re-design a nuclear emergency preparedness leaflet routinely distributed to households in the local area. Pre-test measures of memory for, and self-reported understanding of, nuclear safety information were collected. The findings r...