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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2017 Mar 23;11(5):552–561. doi: 10.1017/dmp.2016.198

TABLE 5.

Priority Research Domains From the Survey, Overall and By Respondent Groupa

Domain No. of RQs Within Domain Percentage of RQs Rated Extremely or Very Important
(>50% respondents), %
Overall PHEP Awardee LHD Sample
Information Management   5 100 20 100
Surge Management   3 100 33 100
Biosurveillance   7   86 29   86
Countermeasures and Mitigation 14   57 50   71
Incident Management   3   33   0   67
Community Resilience   3   33 33   33
Cross-Cutting Topics   9   33 11   56
a

Abbreviations: LHD, local health department; PHEP, Public Health Emergency Preparedness; RQ, research question.