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 Home > News and Events > News Archive - 2006 > Top Program That Keeps America Safer: DHHS Medical Reserve CorpsNews ReleaseMay 4, 2006 Contact: DHHS Medical Reserve Corps Selected as Finalist for National Homeland Security AwardWashington, DC—Mitretek Systems and the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard’s prestigious JFK School, have selected the Department of Health and Human Services Medical Reserve Corps program as one of the five finalist for the prestigious Mitretek Innovations Award in Homeland Security. The Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) program gives volunteers the ability to strengthen the public health infrastructure and improve emergency preparedness and response in their communities. This program encourages average American citizens to become involved in national priorities while still maintaining a local community focus. MRC members work on activities that support the Surgeon General’s priorities for public health—increasing prevention efforts, eliminating health disparities, and improving public health preparedness. The Mitretek Innovations Award in Homeland Security seeks to identify, explore, and highlight creative and effective government and public-private partnership solutions—and the leaders behind them—to the nation’s homeland security concerns. The criteria for this award assume that the "best practices" to be adopted in the future are emerging from practitioners operating in the field today. The recipient of the Mitretek Innovations Award in Homeland Security is determined by a distinguished national panel of experts in the field of homeland security, chaired by Judge William H. Webster. From a broad field of national applicants, five finalists for the Award are selected and subjected to a site evaluation. Representatives of each finalist program will make presentations to the national selection committee at Harvard on April 18, 2006. The announcement of the winner of the Award will be made in the Summer of 2006. The Mitretek Innovations Award in Homeland Security represents an important collaboration between Mitretek Systems, a nonprofit scientific research and engineering corporation that operates in the public interest, and the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, sponsor of the Innovations in American Government Awards. Mitretek Systems is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3), scientific research and engineering corporation that operates in the public interest. Mitretek applies expertise in conjunction with objectivity and independence to address challenges of national significance in areas such as homeland and national security, healthcare, energy and environment, and transportation. The Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government fosters excellence in government around the world in order to generate and strengthen democracy. Through its awards program, research, publications, curriculum support, and global network, the Institute champions critical milestones and effective governance and democratic practice. Last Updated on 11/21/2006 |
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