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Health Readiness and Response

It’s more important than ever that nations, health care systems, and industries be prepared for threats to our public health. These institutions rely on the insights and innovation of Battelle to create critical readiness plans for ensuring resiliency against public health emergencies.
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Be Ready with Battelle

Battelle has a long history of success in coordinating emergency responses between hospitals, government officials and first responder agencies. We have developed preparedness programs for the U.S. military, government agencies, healthcare and first response organizations of varying size and location.  

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Battelle helps our clients identify high priority issues and develop strategic plans for executing programmatic requirements. Depending on client needs, we may offer recommendations for modifying existing plans and training activities.
We leverage sophisticated analytical, computational, and bioinformatics methods to help clients identify meaningful and relevant patterns for making informed decisions. 
Our team understands the risks and threats specific to a region or population and assembles response plans based on those assessments. 
Battelle assists with training, coaching, and evaluation, to ensure hospitals are meeting patient and staff needs while adhering to regulatory requirements for threat management or emergency response.
Our analysts use modeling, AI, and machine learning to identify and mitigate risks within the supply chain. 

Supporting Military Health

From infectious disease to occupational and environmental exposures, threats to military health are both challenging and complex.  Battelle delivers solutions to help military personnel identify, understand, prepare for and mitigate the most challenging military health threats related to occupational and environmental health, force health protection, and emergency and medical readiness.
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Our comprehensive solutions require cross-disciplinary scientific and engineering collaboration. Battelle Solvers combine biology disciplines like these with other applied sciences and engineering to deliver client success.

  • Bioaerosol Science

  • Biological Chemistry

  • Biomedical Engineering

  • Biostatistics

  • Forensic Chemistry and Biology

  • Genomics

  • Immunology

  • Virology

Innovation requires multidisciplinary scientific and engineering collaboration. Our Solvers at Battelle, combine multiple chemistry disciplines like these with other applied sciences and engineering expertise to deliver comprehensive client solutions.

  • Biological Chemistry

  • Forensic Chemistry and Biology

Data science expertise is at the core of our multidisciplinary approach. Our experts, called “Solvers” at Battelle, combine data science disciplines like these with applied engineering and science to deliver comprehensive client solutions in government and industry.

  • Bioinformatics

  • Biostatistics

  • Data Analytics

  • Modeling and Simulation

  • Statistics

Real-world solutions require multidisciplinary scientific and engineering collaboration. Our experts, called “Solvers” at Battelle, combine multiple engineering disciplines like these with other applied sciences to deliver comprehensive client solutions.

  • Biomedical Engineering

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Our Experts


  • Amy Lafreniere, Ph.D.

    Readiness and Response Research Leader

    Amy serves as a project manager and technical lead for the Health Readiness and Response group. To this role, she brings 14 years of comprehensive experience in public health disaster science, including human health risk and exposure assessment, environmental and public health disaster analysis, risk and crisis communication, policy development, consensus building, team building, and program/project management. Amy has worked extensively with public health and emergency management specialists at all levels of government, as well as within the military.

  • Paul Pirkle

    Military Health Solutions Research Leader

    Paul influences, shapes, and leverages emerging and current scientific and technological (S&T) advances to protect the health of warfighters and others who serve the United States. Paul’s specialties include (1) wondering what is technologically possible and connecting that to what is needed and (2) actualizing a system of interconnected processes that deliver value to users, leaders, stakeholders, advocates, and organizations.

  • Diana Echeverria

    Human Performance Research Leader

    Diana’s research focus promotes early detection of acute and chronic central and peripheral adverse central and peripheral nervous system mental health effects for industrial workers, the war fighter, children, and older adults. She has examined exposures ranging from HIV, fatigue, and chronic stress to working with solvents, pesticides, heavy metals and physical exposures, and has developed biomarkers associated with epigenetic mechanisms of autism, physiologic stress in caregivers, and heavy metal toxicity. Diana has authored nearly 70 peer-reviewed publications, 58 major reports, more than 100 abstracts and presentations, and she holds three patents.