Self-Organizing Teams
Self-Organizing Teams is one of the themes in the themes & enablers framework. The themes represent goals that, when realized, create a robust regional system capable of managing large-scale and dynamic disasters and public health emergencies. Enablers are functional areas in which meaningful progress will increase the ability of communities and regions to actualize the identified themes. The self-organizing team medial response is a community-based, self-sustaining disaster response model.
Team Lead
If you have participated in a disaster response as a self-organized team or unaffiliated volunteer, email Lauren Sauer to participate.
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The primary goal of self-organizing teams is to build a model & plan for the establishment, deployment, and sustainment of specialized medical teams to respond to large-scale disasters.
—For example, traditional teams generally rely on volunteers or self-selecting paid personnel who have other healthcare roles and with increasing strains on the existing health workforce, may need to implement novel approaches to expanding capacity in real-time. Novel staffing solutions are necessary when considering the rapidly increasing and continually under-resourced environment of disaster preparedness and response.
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Background literature review conducted to assess the foundational principles of self-organizing teams.
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Overview of “Distributed Network Operations” concept prepared.
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Identification of potential interviewees (regional and national) for a qualitative assessment of the commonalities and key elements of self-organizing teams.
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Development of a survey and semi-structured interview guide to assess the key commonalities of well-known self-organizing teams.
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