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Pacific Emergency Health Initiative

    CDC founded the Pacific Emergency Health Initiative (PEHI) in 2000 with the mission to strengthen the capacity for emergency health preparedness and response among Pacific island nations. The objectives of PEHI in the Pacific are to:

    1. Measure preparedness among health and medical systems;
    2. Facilitate disaster planning among health sectors; and
    3. Develop indigenous emergency health education.

    In September 2001, the President of the Republic of Palau presided over the opening ceremony for the CDC Pacific Center for Emergency Health. Over 60 representatives from eleven Pacific island nations were in attendance. Since then, this center has trained over 500 Pacificans to assist in development and improvement of the Pacific island emergency medical services and public health systems. This project also serves to develop national health and medical emergency operations plans for nations of the Pacific basin. (See PEHI Program in Brief)