COE

What We Do

Courses / Workshops

COE offers courses in a number of areas to improve civil military coordination and humanitarian assistance/disaster management capacity. Some of our courses/workshops are executed in collaboration with key partners, while invitation to others are coordinated with the host nation's respective US embassies. However, we welcome future key collaborators and participants that could have a valuable role to play in this events. For more information on our courses/workshops, please contact our Front Office at: frontoffice@coe-dmha.org.

Humanitarian Assistance Response Training (HART) course

The Humanitarian Assistance Response Training (HART) course provides military planning and response professionals with a two- to four-day operational-level training course with practical information and tools for use in supporting civilian-led humanitarian assistance operations, including disaster response operations.

Health Emergencies in Large Populations (HELP)

The Health Emergencies in Large Populations (HELP) course is hosted by the Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assis tance (COE) in collaboration with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the partnership of University of Hawaii's John A. Burns School of Medicine's Office of Public Health Studies. This is a three week, intensive, graduate-level training course, providing participants with an understanding of the major public health issues to be addressed among populations affected by natural disasters, complex emergencies, and internal displacement.

Senior Civil Military Leaders seminar series
The Senior Civil-Military Leaders seminar series focuses on building regional cooperation in the Asia-Pacific that came about in the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that devastated part of South and Southeast Asia.

Disaster Management Seminars
COE executes seminars focused on helping host nations to better plan and respond to disasters. The seminars are customized according to what the host country would like to accomplish during the seminar. The events include a combination of field and table top exercises, as well as training focused on improving the capability of the national emergency agency. Since 2009, COE has executed seminars in Mongolia (“Gobi Wolf”) and Fiji.

Joint Task Force (JTF) Seminars

One to three-day course designed to assist likely USPACOM JTF Staffs prepare for HADR Exercises and Response Operations. POC: james.welsh@coe-dmha.org.

Exercise / Response Support

Exercise Support
The Center has the unique ability to provide to military exercise planners staff who have worked in UN and NGO humanitarian agencies, and UN Peacekeeping missions. The Center's staff provides the exercise planners and executors realistic input in exercises involving disaster response or humanitarian assistance operations.

Subject Matter Expertise Support
The Center provides consultants who are subject matter experts in the areas of international disaster response and humanitarian assistance operations, humanitarian civil-military coordination, and military support to civilian-led, international HA/DR operations.

Response Operations Support
The Center provides to COCOM and Joint Task Force commanders staff who are uniquely qualified in civil-military coordination pronciples and coordination mechanisms in international disaster and humanitarian crisis response operations, including staff who have been trained by the United Nations as Civil-Military Coordination (CMCoord) Officers.