Pharmaceutical distributors have emergency preparedness plans in place to ensure continued operations in emergencies, and they actively collaborate with their supply chain partners to solve challenges created by a pandemic or severe emergency scenario. HDA members’ logistics expertise allows them to quickly spring into action during emergencies to rapidly deliver medical supplies and disaster aid packages around the clock to impacted communities, ensuring the right medical supplies are getting to the right areas at the right times.

Partnership with Healthcare Ready

HDA also is a board member of Healthcare Ready (formerly known as Rx Response), an information-sharing non-profit organization of pharmaceutical manufacturers, distributors, pharmacies, hospitals, disaster relief agencies and local/state/federal government agencies that engages during a severe natural disaster, large-scale terrorist attack or a pandemic that disrupts the normal supply of medicines.