The DREM Center is a Center co-sponsored by the University of Michigan, the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), and the New York Academy of Medicine. The DREM Center seeks to act as a source of practical education, mentoring and technical assistance for researchers, government, and non-government agencies across the nation involved in post-disaster research. The principal aim of the DREM Center is to improve post-disaster research and to assist disaster-response agencies identify who is at greatest risk for developing specific disaster-related mental health problems and which mental health interventions are most appropriate for victims with different levels of exposure to the disaster. The DREM Center has three primary functions: (i) to mentor local researchers involved in post-disaster research; (ii) to house a website (www.disasterresearch.org) that offers a wide-range of information regarding post-disaster research; and (iii) to disseminate evidence-based information about post-disaster research to researchers and relevant agencies. Since project inception, the DREM Center has provided assistance to researchers and practitioners after the Madrid March 11, 2004 terrorist attacks, the Southeast Asian Tsunamis in 2004, hurricanes Jeanne/Charley/Ivan/Charley in Florida in 2004, and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the Gulf Coast in 2005. Dr Galea is the co-director of the DREM Center together with Dr Dean Kilpatrick at MUSC.
For more information please contact: Sandro Galea.