Public Health

SAIC helps public health organizations acquire, analyze, and use data to preserve, protect, and promote population health. Our team of public health experts includes epidemiologists, biostatisticians, scientists, physicians, nurses, and public safety and information security specialists. We apply our domain expertise to devise innovative solutions to the dynamic challenges facing public health professionals and organizations.

Quick Response = Lives Saved

Using our knowledge and experience, SAIC trains healthcare providers and first responders to prepare for, respond to, and recover from biological and chemical disasters. SAIC helps our customers design medical emergency response plans, implement biosurveillance and response solutions, and perform forensic analyses of health threats. SAIC's solutions enable our customers to prevent, prepare for, detect, and successfully respond to public health emergencies.

To expedite detection of and response to emerging public health threats, SAIC supports the development of disease surveillance systems. Our solutions enable public health and clinical care to exchange health information securely across networks in near real-time to support situational awareness, case investigation, and outbreak response. We apply industry-leading standards to deliver integrated and semantically consistent data to provide effective analytical, visualization, and reporting solutions. These standards include both technical standards for enabling efficient data exchange, and domain-specific terminology standards for enabling information exchanges to be semantically interoperable. With integrated and consistent data, we can provide effective analytical, visualization, and reporting solutions to enable public health systems and professionals to detect and characterize health threats. Emergency Response Planning and Training.

Emergency Response Planning and Training

Whether a disaster is natural, biological, chemical, radiological, or nuclear, SAIC public health emergency preparedness experts' can help. We work closely with federal, state, and local public health organizations to design all- hazards emergency response plans, conduct training and exercises, and perform forensic analyses of public health threats so that if the unthinkable happens and disaster strikes, they are ready to respond.

Our public health capabilities include:

• Behavioral health research and support
• Disease surveillance
• Epidemiology and biostatistics support
• Emergency preparedness and response