Executive Summary
The 2024 Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise (PHEMCE) Strategy and Implementation Plan (SIP) describes the PHEMCE's goals and objectives to improve the nation's medical countermeasure (MCM) preparedness against chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) threats, including pandemic influenza and other emerging infectious diseases (EIDs). These goals were created in close collaboration with PHEMCE member agencies across the federal government. Aimed at establishing an ambitious agenda, these PHEMCE SIP goals include:
Ensuring the U.S. government (USG) has defined the right MCM capabilities to respond to public health emergencies and disasters by reviewing the threat landscape, prioritizing those threats that represent the highest risks, and harmonizing USG capabilities.
Driving unified action toward developing and sustaining priority MCMs aligned with key USG strategies by improving information sharing, reducing duplication of efforts, and identifying critical gaps and priorities to support MCM capabilities, particularly in an era of budget austerity.
Optimizing collaborations with partners ensuring state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT), industry, and other stakeholders are ready to respond during public health emergencies and disasters.
Strengthening last-mile MCM efforts to enable a more coordinated and equitable MCM response to future public health emergencies and disasters by ensuring incorporation of last-mile capabilities into appropriate USG response plans, with a focus on at-risk individuals and historically underserved communities.
Looking forward, the PHEMCE aims to strengthen the national ability to respond to naturally occurring, accidental, and deliberate threats that could severely impact health, safety, and well-being of the entire U.S. population. Successful implementation of the PHEMCE goals and objectives will also help build a foundation for future work.
Goal 1
Ensuring USG has defined the right MCM capabilities to respond to public health emergencies and disasters
Goal 2
Driving unified action toward developing and sustaining priority MCMs aligned with key USG strategies
