Disaster-preparedness effort unites WSU, base

FAIRBORN — Wright State University’s National Center for Medical Readiness and the U.S. Air Force’s aerospace medicine school on Tuesday formally agreed to collaborate on civilian and military disaster preparedness.

The disaster preparedness training and research may include aerospace; emergency and disaster medicine; critical care air transport; humanitarian response; contingency operations; civilian/military interface; command and control; visual displays; and optical systems, according to a news release.

Dr. Glenn Hamilton, senior director of the National Center for Medical Readiness, said the partnership could spur economic growth by helping the medical readiness center to apply Air Force technologies to commercial industrial problems.

He said the agreement will also increase opportunities to pursue competitive research projects and grants.

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