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Implementing the Cities Readiness Initiative: Lessons Learned From Boston

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2013

Howard K. Koh ,
Loris J. Elqura ,
Christine M. Judge ,
John P. Jacob ,
Amy E. Williams ,
M. Suzanne Crowther ,
Richard A. Serino  and
John M. Auerbach
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Abstract

The federally funded Cities Readiness Initiative (CRI) requires seamless federal, state, and local public health coordination to provide antibiotics to an entire city population within 48 hours of an aerosolized release of anthrax. We document practical lessons learned from the development and implementation of the Boston CRI plan. Key themes center on heightened emphasis on security, a new mass protection model of dispensing, neighborhood-centric clinic site selection, online training of Medical Reserve Corps volunteers, and the testing of operations through drills and exercises. Sharing such lessons can build national preparedness. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2008;2:40–49)

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Original Research and Critical Analysis
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Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , March 2008 , pp. 40 - 49
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Copyright © Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 2008

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