Civil-Military Programs

COE works in a number of areas of specialization as that form an integral components in building resiliency.


Disaster Management, Risk Reduction, and Preparedness.


Cultivates interlinked civil-military agency collaboration to exchange ideas, explore alternative concepts to promote emergency and disaster preparedness, risk mitigation, collaborative respond, and rapid recovery from natural and man-made disasters through seminars, conferences, workshops, analytic exchanges, and exercises.



Coordination During Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response


Promotes the identification and exchange of continuously evolving coordination tools and mechanisms and cultivates the sharing of ideas and experiences. These dialogues inform a broad range of civil-military, governmental, and non-governmental entities to enhance common civil-military understanding and interface through courses, workshops, exercises, conferences, and investigative interactions.

HA/DR Research, Risk Assessment, Lessons Learned, and Best Practices.


Conducts applied research, collects and analyzes lessons learned and best practices, and publishes an annual Journal to promote effective capacity building programs.



Health Security


Cultivates analytic exchanges to promote systemic capacity building sequenced to enhance community, national, and regional health security through the “Health Emergencies in Large Populations” (HELP) course. HELP is an annual 2 week course taught by the Center and co-sponsored by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the University of Hawaii School of Medicine.



Outcome Assessment and Disaster Response Augmentation


Provides highly skilled and experienced subject matter expertise to assist organizations involved in humanitarian assistance and disaster response operations.



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Center for Excellence in Disaster Management & Humanitarian Assistance
1 Jarrett White Road (MCPA-DM), Tripler, AMC, Hawaii 96859-5000 USA
Tel:(808)433-7035    Fax:(808)433-1757