Capacity Statements

Disaster Preparedness and Response

Disaster Preparedness and Response Services


Our strategy to enhance disaster preparedness and response focuses on health system resilience and strengthening to meet the needs of facilities or communities whether in the mitigation, preparedness, response, or recovery phases. By working directly with various health facilities; developing and administering training on key topic areas (such as incident command, rapid response training, triage etc); and identifying innovative solutions for implementation within existing health systems, we can enhance effective planning, preparedness, and response.


We focus our activities in two comprehensive domains: Enhancing Response Capacity and Maintaining Essential Services. Size, scope, and duration of the project will be informed by specific project goals and budget. Illustrative activities that can be supported by CGEC, and that are focused on response capacity and maintaining essential services during a disaster are included in the table below.


Maintaining Essential Services


Enhancing Response Capacity



Emergency & Critical Care Capacity

Emergency & Critical Care Capacity Services in CGEC

Increasing Emergency & Critical Care Capacity is a core activity for CGEC that drives directly at the heart of our mission to increase access and improve outcomes. Our strategy focuses on three pillars: education, research, and patient care. In education we strive to train a full spectrum of health professionals in a variety of global settings to become emergency care practitioners and leaders. In research our faculty work at the cutting edge of innovation and have extensive experience collaborating with global partners to perform high-quality research that improves outcomes, influences policy and advances sustainable health development. Finally, direct patient care is our passion and the original calling of all our faculty, the majority of which continue to actively care for patients on a daily basis.

By working directly with clinicians, leaders, researchers, or health facilities; CGEC has the capability to generate and enhance emergency and critical care capacity. Size, scope, and duration of the project will be informed by specific project goals and budget. Illustrative activities that can be supported by CGEC and that are focused on surveillance and response capacity are included in the table below.


Emergency & Critical Care Capacity Interventions



Pandemic Preparedness

Future Pandemic Preparedness Services in CGEC


Our strategy to enhance future pandemic preparedness focuses on health system resilience and strengthening to meet the needs of communities and develop strategies to promptly detect and respond to disease threats. We focus our activities in three comprehensive domains: Integrated Surveillance in Emergency Medicine, Enhancing Response Capacity, and Maintaining Essential Services.


By working directly with various health facilities; developing and administering training on key topic areas; and identifying innovative solutions for implementation within existing health systems CGEC has the capability to build surveillance and response capacity for future pandemic preparedness. Size, scope, and duration of the project will be informed by specific project goals and budget. Illustrative activities that can be supported by CGEC and that are focused on surveillance and response capacity are included in the table below.


Integrated Surveillance in Emergency Medicine


Maintaining Essential Services


Enhancing Response Capacity