CAMERA

Developed jointly with partners across the world, CAMERA (City’s Self-Assessment of Mass Casualty Emergency Response and Actions) is a measurement tool that allows city leadership to objectively assess their city’s level of preparedness in responding to mass casualty events.

The CAMERA tool provides a reliable measurement and a mass casualty response score, allowing city health authorities to identify critical gaps and improve disaster response plans before a real disaster strikes. Currently, there are very few tools available to city health authorities for comprehensive testing of emergency medical response plans. The CAMERA tool consists of six questionnaires with a total of 368 items consisting of questions and observations administered to twelve individual roles in each city including: two EMS leaders, two EMS providers, two security leaders, two ED nurses, two ED directors, and two city leaders.

CAMERA aims to strengthen urban disaster response to mass casualty events, guide leaders and policymakers in benchmarking their city’s emergency response capacity and performance compared to other cities around the world and foster a proactive stance on preparedness efforts. CAMERA will provide better understanding of the overall emergency response capacity of selected cities.