What is the Countermeasure and Response Administration program?
Countermeasure and Response Administration (CRA) is a program of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that supports public health preparedness and emergency response by tracking the availability and dispensing of medical countermeasures. The program is made up of two complementary systems: (1) CRA Countermeasure Inventory Tracking assists public health officials to locate critical countermeasures within the commercial supply chain; (2) CRA Countermeasure Administration Tracking is used at emergency dispensing sites to manage mass prophylaxis activities. The CRA program is a component of the Public Health Information Network (PHIN), a national initiative to implement a standards-based business and technical architecture for public health information systems that interoperates with the National Health Information Network (NHIN).
