HHS Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response

ASPR TRACIE’s new Clinical Resources for Emergency Shortages of Treatments and Supplies (CRESTS) webpage highlights resources to help partners prepare for and manage medical product and drug shortages. Make sure your health care facility is prepared before the next disaster hits. Check out real-time resources that track shortages, general shortage mitigation strategies, and guidelines on facility responses for different departments. In addition, ASPR TRACIE created a CRESTS Topic Collection on product category-specific resources which can help with planning efforts. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eemMAvUD

The DS-MRN Challenge: Digital Stockpile & Manufacturing Response Network is now open. 📢 ASPR is seeking innovative concepts to help strengthen the nation's ability to manufacture and distribute critical medical products during public health emergencies, supply chain disruptions, and regional disasters. Through this challenge, participants will develop concepts for a Digital Stockpile & Manufacturing Response Network (DS-MRN), designed to enable rapid, distributed production of medical products when and where they are needed most. With prizes totaling more than $2 million in prize funding for all awardees, this is an opportunity to contribute to the future of health security and medical supply chain resilience. https://lnkd.in/eVz8hgkQ #DSMRNChallenge #HealthSecurity #SupplyChainResilience #AdvancedManufacturing

BARDA is supporting development of Bundibugyo ebolavirus vaccine candidates through the Rapid Response Partnership Vehicle (RRPV) Consortium. We're interested in candidates that leverage the vesicular stomatitis virus platform, which has proven to require just one dose to provide protection for other filoviruses. https://lnkd.in/evdDyEty

Building domestic manufacturing capacity, BARDA and Schott inaugurated a new production line for production of pharmaceutical glass vials at their facility in Lebanon, PA. Thanks to a longstanding partnership between Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) and Schott Pharma, the new production lines, once complete, will be used to make up to 140 million additional 2R vials annually and will support rapid scale production and delivery of medical countermeasures during emergencies.

Strengthening SLTT preparedness and resilience, last week ASPR brought together +300 partners across federal agencies, SLTT officials, and private sector healthcare partners to focus one goal: surging effectively across systems during disasters. Our nation’s healthcare system is made of thousands of individual facilities, healthcare coalitions, regional systems, and more. When there is a surge in patients, every part must be ready to work together. Over the last decade, ASPR has invested in building healthcare coalitions and regional partnerships. We have continued that collaboration by bringing together experts to strengthen the partnerships we have invested in and welcome additional partners to work together to strengthen health security. Discussions like the ASPR Healthcare Readiness Summit last week ensure that partners come together, identify best practices, and work to implement strategies and solutions that can mitigate gaps during future disasters and ultimately strengthen coordination before disaster strikes. Thank you to all our partners who joined us. The perspectives you are shared will help shape future plans to support patient surge and protect the health of Americans during disasters.

ASPR's Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) entered into a new agreement to enhance deployment of AVITA Medical’s RECELL, a device used to treat severe burns, including burns caused by blast exposure or by a nuclear incident. RECELL is FDA-approved for treatment of burns and traumatic wounds that uses a patient’s own skin cells to create Spray-On Skin Cells. The treatment can be used on both adults and certain pediatric patients. Under this agreement, Avita has pledged to make RECELL units available when BARDA needs them without requiring a purchase of the unit up front, ensuring cost savings for the taxpayer. RECELL is just one of the products in BARDA’s portfolio of cutting-edge medical countermeasures. To learn more about the innovative products that BARDA supports, see the full portfolio. https://lnkd.in/e9BKJew

When wildfire risk rises, readiness saves lives. Join the next #ClinicalReadinessRounds session where experts will share promising practices for protecting patients, planning for evacuations, and strengthening wildfire response. The June 9 session entitled “Wildfires: Patient Protection, Evacuation, and Health Effects” is part of a regular, monthly series, occurring from 12:00-1:15 PM ET on the second Tuesday of every month.  Participation is free, but registration is required. One hour of Continuing Medical Education, Continuing Nursing Education, and Continuing Education for Emergency Medical Services credits are available to participants who attend the live sessions and fill out a brief survey. Register Today: https://bit.ly/4bzs1Ye  Make sure you’re the first to know about each Clinical Readiness Rounds session. Sign up for the newsletter here by selecting the Clinical Readiness Rounds box under the “Programs” header: https://lnkd.in/ea66iuz7.

Five passengers from the MV Hondius are now back in their home states following their departure from UNMC’s National Quarantine Unit. They will be monitored for the next 21 days. ASPR coordinated their travel on non-commercial flights and ensured the appropriate PPE was deployed on the planes to help protect passengers, transportation staff, and the American people. Thirteen passengers remain in Omaha and continue to undergo monitoring and clinical assessment following their exposure to Andes Hantavirus. Because symptoms of this variant can take up to 42 days to appear, all 18 of the former passengers were given the option to complete the entire period at the National Quarantine Unit. https://lnkd.in/e2Q6NfeB

How can distributors support jurisdictional stockpile readiness? More than 400 state, local, tribal, and territorial public health, emergency management, and preparedness partners joined ASPR’s Strategic National Stockpile and HIDA to improve collaboration and increase awareness of the #HealthcareSupplyChain. To learn about the practical ideas jurisdictions can implement now to strengthen preparedness and readiness through stronger partnerships, watch the archived webinar. https://lnkd.in/gN8uNzcW

When disasters overwhelm local hospitals and healthcare systems, the difference between a crisis and effective patient care can come down to trained teams, available beds, and a system that can connect patients to the right level of care. That is where the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) plays a critical role. NDMS stands ready to deploy medical, mortuary, veterinary, trauma, and critical care capabilities to support communities during emergencies. Just as importantly, NDMS helps coordinate patient movement and supports definitive care when local capacity is exhausted. Strengthening NDMS means investing in the people, partnerships, and systems that help ensure care continues when communities need it most. It means strengthening and maintaining a capability that bolsters state and local resilience. As the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season approaches, HHS Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, John Knox explains the vital role that NDMS plays in disaster response operations and why reauthorization of the Pandemic and All Hazards Preparedness Act is vital. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eyYyuMJa