Meeting • December 9, 2024 National Academies: Enhancing the Resilience of Healthcare and Public Health Critical Infrastructure

When disaster strikes, critical infrastructure failures, from loss of power and water to failures of IT infrastructure and systems, can follow. Strengthening the resilience of healthcare and public health (HPH) infrastructure requires ongoing investment, innovation, and collaboration across all levels of government, the private sector, and civil society during steady state, and response, and recovery phases. HPH infrastructure, technology, and operations are rapidly changing and are increasingly interdependent and interconnected. Threats to the nation’s critical social and physical infrastructure systems are also rapidly evolving and highly complex—posing potentially new or growing risks of disruption and challenging the assumptions used to design and protect these systems.

The National Academies Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Disasters and
Emergencies, is organizing this workshop to examine strategies, policies, and innovative actions to
improve the resilience of HPH critical infrastructure to impacts from disasters and other
emergencies. 

• Explore the evolution of the HPH critical infrastructure sector from infrastructure, technology, and operational perspectives. 
• Assess the evolving threat landscape, including emerging risks and vulnerabilities specific to HPH critical infrastructure including the built environment, water and wastewater, energy, IT and communications, supply chain, and workforce.
• Evaluate current and future risk reduction and mitigation strategies needed to address the changing infrastructure and threat landscapes.
• Define the characteristics of a resilient HPH critical infrastructure sector and outline the steps necessary to achieve this resilience.

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