Author: Melanie Mackin

Healthcare Ready has spent the last two years working to address the supply chain vulnerabilities that were both identified and exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. This work wouldn’t have been possible without the continued collaboration between our public health and private sector partners, who continue...

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed gaps and vulnerabilities across the US health system and required novel strategic partnerships to identify solutions and effectively respond. Some successes that new partnerships have achieved include increasing research for medical countermeasures, enhancing community education, identifying and addressing health care disparities...

Coronavirus has not only brought devastation to the US, causing over 600,000 deaths as of August 2021, but it has also created serious challenges for those who continue to live through the pandemic. Approximately 1/3 of American’s economic situation has worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in massive economic...

Coming off of the unprecedented 2020 hurricane season, which produced 30 named storms of which 13 became hurricanes, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center (NOAA CPC) is again predicting above average activity for the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season.  Hurricane season officially begins on June...