Building Public Health Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Capabilities Through Disaster Citizen Science: Perspectives From Local Health Department, Academic, and Community Representatives.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Disaster citizen is the use of scientific methods by the public to address preparedness, response, or recovery needs. Disaster citizen science applications with public health relevance are growing in academic and community sectors, but integration with public health emergency preparedness, response, and recovery (PHEPRR) agencies is limited.

Objective

We examined how local health departments (LHDs) and community-based organizations have used citizen science to build public health preparedness and response (PHEP) capabilities. The purpose of this study is to help LHDs make use of citizen science to support PHEPRR.

Design

We conducted semistructured telephone interviews (n = 55) with LHD, academic, and community representatives engaged or interested in citizen s

SUBMITTER: Siddiqi SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10198799 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul-Aug 01

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature