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Caribbean Emergency Response Network

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Connecting governments, partner agencies, and communities through coordinated emergency preparedness, response, and recovery.

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Animal Health
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Our Initiatives
18+
Nations Covered
300+
Trained Volunteers
20+
Training Programs
5
Training Tiers
Flagship Programmes

Leading Caribbean
Innovation

From AI-powered early warning to community resilience, our initiatives are transforming how the Caribbean prepares for and responds to disasters.

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CREST Initiative: Caribbean Resilience and Emergency Skills Training

The CREST Initiative is CERN's flagship training and capacity development initiative, delivering a comprehensive, multi-tiered emergency skills curriculum across physical, virtual, and hybrid modalities to government organizations, partner NGOs, and community emergency response teams (CERT) throughout the Caribbean. From inclusive first aid and disability-aware response to field hospital deployment, marine operations, and CERT development; CREST is systematically building the Caribbean's most prepared, most capable, and most resilient emergency response workforce, transforming training from an institutional obligation into a regional competitive advantage.

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MOSAIC - Multidimensional Operational Survey and Assessment of the Caribbean's Integrated Communities

The MOSAIC initiative is the Caribbean's first district-level vulnerability, resilience, and recovery intelligence initiative, systematically mapping targeted communities across the region to ascribe a standardized multidimensional value profile to every district it surveys. From economic worth and livelihood character to social vulnerability and infrastructure resilience, MOSAIC ensures that when disaster strikes, the Caribbean already knows exactly what was there, what it will take to rebuild it, and who needs help first.

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Project ARIA: Adaptive Regional Intelligence for the Americas

ARIA is the Caribbean's first purpose-built disaster and health intelligence AI model, trained on over three (3) decades of regional meteorological, epidemiological, environmental, and oceanographic data across six core domains. Unlike adapted global models, ARIA was conceived, trained, and operationalized entirely within the Caribbean's own risk landscape, continuously refining its predictive accuracy with every operation CERN executes across the basin. This is not borrowed intelligence. It is the Caribbean's own!!!

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One Health Early Warning System

CERN's One Health Early Warning System (OH-EWS) is the Caribbean's first unified monitoring and intelligence framework bridging human, animal, and environmental health; combining a distributed network of real-time field nodes/ modules across the Caribbean region with AI-powered analytics to transform ground-level data into predictive, actionable intelligence. From sensor to policymaker, OH-EWS is redefining what it means to be prepared.

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Flagship Initiative

One Health Early Warning
System (OHEWS)

The most advanced multi-hazard early warning system in the Caribbean; integrating weather, seismic, epidemiological, and environmental data streams to deliver up to 72-hour advance warnings across the region.

Active Systems (3)
Accuracy (94%)
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CERN OHEWS
Model Accuracy
91%
Training Dataset
50 yr
Caribbean AI Innovation

The Caribbean's
Own AI Model

ARIA (Adaptive Regional Intelligence for the Americas) is the Caribbean's first purpose-built disaster intelligence model, trained on over three decades of regional meteorological, epidemiological, environmental, terrestrial and oceanographic data across multiple domains. ARIA evolves with every operation, continuously deepening its predictive accuracy to safeguard the region it was built to serve.

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    Professional Development

    World-Class
    Training Programmes

    Internationally recognised certification courses designed specifically for Caribbean emergency management professionals.

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    Field Hospital Deployment

    Professional

    Comprehensive field hospital deployment and management training.

    Duration
    3 Days
    Certified
    216
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    Emergency Network

    Whether you're a government agency, NGO, researcher, or community leader, join CERN's network of various regional organisations across the region. Building a safer Caribbean!

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