Ensuring an Effective Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise

The U.S. medical countermeasures (MCMs) enterprise is interconnected,  complex, and dynamic. It includes public and private entities that  develop and manufacture new and existing MCMs, ensure procurement,  storage, and distribution of MCMs, and administer, monitor, and evaluate  MCMs. The interagency group known as the Public Health Emergency  Medical Countermeasures Enterprise (PHEMCE) is the nation's sole  coordinating body, responsible for ensuring end-to-end MCM preparedness  and response.

Ensuring an Effective Public Health Emergency  Medical Countermeasures Enterprise provides recommendations from an  expert committee for a re-envisioned PHEMCE. Four priority areas of  improvement emerged from committee deliberations: (1) articulating  PHEMCE's mission and role and explicating the principles guiding  PHEMCE's operating principles and processes, (2) revising PHEMCE  operations and processes, (3) collaborating more effectively with  external public and private partners, and (4) navigating legal and  policy issues.