This is a P01 application in response to FOA RFA-TP-08-001;it focuses on mental and behavioral public health systems research in preparedness and emergency response. The application consists of a research core and four inter-related projects. The Research Core will provide project and administrative grant management. It will also support new research initiatives in the form of new investigator and pilot project funding (beyond the four proposed research projects). The four research projects themselves are heavily interrelated and synergistic. They represent different elements of a unifying organizational paradigm based on the 3 phases of an emergency: pre-event, event, and post-event, and a unifying theoretical paradigm, the Extended Parallel Processing Model. The application explicitly targets three of the major components of the public health system: (1) Government Public Health Infrastructure, (2) the Media, and (3) Communities (specific elements thereof) - The major goal of our proposed research is to build the capacity, competency, and coordination of the public health system to prepare for and respond to mental and behavioral health aspects of emergencies. Our research seeks to identify and mitigate deficiencies in organization, pre-conditioning, breadth of response capacity, competency, and coordination, and the legal environment, with a specific focus on mental and behavioral health issues. The four projects are Project #1: Applying the Extended Parallel Process Model to Willingness-to-Respond in the Public Health System;Project #2: Fostering Coordinated Mental Health Preparedness Planning;Project #3: Role of the Media in Resistance;and Project #4: Legal and Ethical Assessment Concerning Mental and Behavioral Health Preparedness. In emergencies and disasters that have occurred to date, psychological """"""""casualties"""""""" outnumber physical casualties by as much as 100:1, yet our public health system are woefully unprepared to handle them. The four projects, new investigator and pilot project programs, together, will significantly enhance the capacity, competency, and coordination of the public mental health system in times of emergency.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response (COTPER)
Type
Research Program Projects (P01)
Project #
5P01TP000288-03
Application #
7936821
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZTP1-COR (51))
Program Officer
Leinhos, Mary
Project Start
2008-09-30
Project End
2013-09-29
Budget Start
2010-09-30
Budget End
2011-09-29
Support Year
3
Fiscal Year
2010
Total Cost
$1,510,398
Indirect Cost
Name
Johns Hopkins University
Department
Radiation-Diagnostic/Oncology
Type
Schools of Medicine
DUNS #
001910777
City
Baltimore
State
MD
Country
United States
Zip Code
21218