The Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise Review

Download or read book The Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise Review written by United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The MCM (medical countermeasure) enterprise exists to develop, manufacture, procure, stockpile, and eventually distribute products deemed critical to protecting or treating our population against a variety of naturally occurring or intentionally delivered CBRN threats. However, this MCM enterprise does not exist in a vacuum. It is part of a complex, multi-component system of capabilities necessary to protect our country from a wide range of health threats. This document was prepared in response to the Secretary's request for a review of the MCM development enterprise. HHS recognizes that there are multiple components and organizations essential to the timely development, deployment, and use of MCMs, including critical investment in the Nation's public health system. Indeed, absent the means to detect a health threat or distribute and administer an MCM, investments in the development and manufacturing of MCMs are of limited value. While recognizing these important dependencies, this review is limited to that part of the MCM enterprise that focuses specifically on the processes, policies, and infrastructure required to take a product concept derived from a national requirement through research, early and advanced development, manufacturing, regulatory approval, procurement, and sustained stockpiling. A larger framing of the public health infrastructure needs for national health security is described in the NHSS (National Health Security Strategy).