Learning from H1N1: Transformation, Integration, and Collaboration

The first pandemic in over 40 years, H1N1 was a crisis that tested business continuity and traditional emergency planning. Many organizations learned to adapt on the fly—adjusting responses and plans to address what was actually happening in their workplaces and communities. This report, based on discussions and presentations at a series of workshops hosted by Signal49 Research’s Pandemic Response Working Group, sets out actions that organizations can take to learn from the lessons of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic in an effort to avoid the pitfalls of the past during the next widespread outbreak, pandemic, or emergency.