The research team focuses on raising awareness, developing skills, and developing knowledge within the field of health preparedness.

A world characterized by, for example, extensive natural disasters, pandemics, major accidents (CBRNE), threat scenarios, and escalating geopolitical unrest in Europe places increased demands on both the handling and consequence management of unforeseen crises, disasters, and war scenarios. This also includes major accidents (boat, train, bus, etc.) that occur from time to time.

The goal of the Health Preparedness team is to strengthen resilience at the individual and system level in society. This primarily involves safeguarding, preserving, and protecting the lives and health of the population in general, including vulnerable population groups, especially in the event of extraordinary events that challenge the normal capacity of today's health services.

Our thematic research team seeks to collaborate internally and externally with agencies, stakeholders and organizations on topics related to health preparedness in peacetime and wartime.

Interdisciplinary collaboration in research and development, knowledge sharing, workshops, discussions, exercises, and learning are central to the development of health preparedness as a thematic focus.

Relevant areas may include, for example:

• Emergency planning, resource allocation
• Protection
• Self-preparedness/mental preparedness
• Global health, migration challenges
• Health communication
• Municipal emergency preparedness
• Crisis management – crisis management, cooperation
• Logistics and medical transport
• Infection control
• Stress and coping
• Trauma management in extraordinary situations
• Design and development of new technology/hospitals/equipment relevant to civil – military emergency preparedness