Pandemic Recovery Metrics to Drive Equity (PanREMEDY): Guidelines for State and Local Leaders in Anticipation of Future Catastrophic Outbreaks

In the community together for other words, whatever moves the public mindset in the recovery direction of taking the pandemic seriously and wanting to institutionalize more permanent solutions in terms of resources and public goals is best.” PanREMEDY: Guidelines for State and Local Leaders 3 THEME QUOTE Holistic recovery interventions “One of the challenges…is to take advantage of that ‘We’re add. [...] …We have the highest rates in the world dying,” and “[T]he ability to think about recovery…is in some ways a privilege.” Others offered alternate words to account for the sand-shifting nature of the post- pandemic period, such as “discovery” and “changing, adapting, and resurfacing.” Pandemic “response” and “recovery,” while intertwined, are not interchangeable The scale and scope of the pandemic. [...] PanREMEDY: Guidelines for State and Local Leaders 13 PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT RATING Important Feasible Representative Bodies: The composition of decision-making and advisory bodies within the pandemic recovery enterprise reflects the demographics of the locality, with emphasis on the inclusion of the most severely affected communities. [...] Expert Advisory Panel At the outset of the project, the PanREMEDY team engaged a panel of experts in disaster recovery and resilience for guidance and support in scoping the project, identifying relevant resources from disaster scholars and practitioners, and ensuring that the outputs incorporated the best available science and met the needs of end users. [...] PanREMEDY: Guidelines for State and Local Leaders 25 Upon completion of Round 3, the study team estimated mean and median Likert ratings for the importance and feasibility of each indicator, as well as the interquartile range of responses to assess the panel’s level of consensus.