Welcome to the DREM Center

The primary function of the DREM Center is to provide practical education, mentoring and technical assistance to researchers and governmental and non-governmental agencies interested in research following disasters and terrorism. The DREM Center involves a core of scientists who have a long history of conducting high-quality research after disasters and terrorist attacks. Prior research conducted by these individuals has had a significant impact on the ability of helping professionals to understand and recognize the needs of individuals and communities affected by disasters and terrorism so that their needs can be addressed.

The DREM Center is co-sponsored by the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center at the Medical University of South Carolina and the University of Michigan, School of Public Health with collaboration from the Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies at the New York Academy of Medicine. The DREM Center, started in June 2004, is funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute for Nursing Research. The DREM Center is one of three projects designed to enhance disaster research. To learn more about the other two projects see Research Education in Disaster Mental Health (REDMH) and The Disaster Research Training Grant (DRT).

This website is set up to provide basic information for the general public on post-disaster mental health research as well as provide researchers with instruments and up-to-date information necessary for conducting post-disaster research.

Disaster Research Training Grant The goal of the DRT grant 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.

Research Education in Disaster Mental Health The educational goals of REDMH are to inform, instruct, advise, and mentor disaster researchers. REDMH provides research summaries to inform the scientific community about topics after major disasters, instructional materials such as summaries from a book on research education in disaster mental health, contact information for those looking for advising on a particular project, and a mentoring program for promising newcomers to the field.