Listed below are links to other Research Education Projects that might be of interest to disaster researchers.

Research Education Projects

Disaster Research Education and Mentoring (DREM) Center
The DREM Center seeks to act as a source of practical education, mentoring and technical assistance for researchers and government and non-government agencies across the nation involved in post-disaster research. The principal aims of the DREM Center are to improve post-disaster research and to assist disaster-response agencies identify which mental health interventions are most appropriate for victims with different levels of exposure to the disaster. The DREM Center has three primary functions: (i) to mentor local researchers involved in post-disaster research; (ii) to maintain a readily accessible electronic archive that offers a wide-range of information regarding post-disaster research; and (iii) to disseminate evidence-based information about post-disaster research to researchers and relevant agencies. The DREM Center website provides the general public and the researcher with up-to-date information and resources on post-disaster research. The DREM faculty has written a series of modules on post-disaster research methods, which are free and available on the website. The website also provides information about funding, how to write a grant, and sample grants for researchers to reference while writing their own grants.

Disaster Research Training Grant (DRT)
The goal of this program is to enhance the nation's capacity for conducting rapid post-event disaster mental health research related to children and families through training of researchers and responder organizations in state-of the-art research methods, emphasizing methods of needs assessment, data collection, clinical evaluation, surveillance treatment and intervention, and evaluations of effectiveness. Its goals are: to generate understanding of child and family focused rapid research activities in the aftermath of an event through training constituencies that provide review and oversight of proposed research activities and who are positioned to facilitate large-scale implementation of a child and family disaster research agenda; to develop ten Local Multidisciplinary Research Teams (LMRTs) over a five year period who will be trained to conduct rapid-response research; to establish Regional Mentoring Teams (RMTs) that will provide technical assistance capacity to LMRTs; and to design and implement flexible cost-effective delivery mechanisms for training.

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