B-Quest

This project is a collaboration of city agencies and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health that seeks to collaboratively examine and address key city agencies' abilities to effectively provide emergency services to those in need.

The goal of the task force is to develop a multi-agency/sectoral collaborative process to review Baltimore's current public emergency services and develop a set of recommendations to improve the city's emergency preparedness.

Specifically, we aim to examine current initiatives in Baltimore, health and social systems, and propose new efforts to help improve the city's emergency medical services delivery and emergency preparedness. We seek to identify major inefficiencies in the current system, review lessons learned from participating agencies and other cities' programs and plans, and finally, to propose potential new initiatives or expansions of current programs to improve the Baltimore's  emergency response capability and disaster preparedness.