›About PreAct

Building mental health readiness

PreAct combines expertise in disaster psychiatry, trauma-informed care, community engagement, and innovation to help communities prepare for and recover from trauma

Our Story Leadership & Institutions Partnerships

›Our story

Who we are

PreAct was created in response to a growing global recognition that mass trauma has profound and lasting psychological impacts on individuals, communities, frontline responders, and the systems that support them.

Vision

Future ready

We envision communities prepared for crisis through knowledge, compassion, resilience, supported by evidence-based training, trauma-informed tools, and readiness to recover from mass trauma

Mission

Advancing readiness

PreAct makes mental health care part of crisis preparedness - not an afterthought. Through training, partnerships, field learning, and scalable tools, we make it practical and human-centered

Collaboration

Leading medical partnership

A collaboration between global leaders in mental health and trauma response, bringing deep expertise in psychiatry, disaster response, public health, education, and community systems.

›Leadership & Institutions

The people and institutions guiding PreAct

Founder

Dr. Craig Katz

Internationally recognized leader in disaster psychiatry and global mental health, with more than 25 years of experience designing and leading mental health response

Founder

Dr. Oren Tene

Leading Israeli psychiatrist, brain researcher, and educator whose work bridges psychiatry, research, and real-world mental health care.

Founder

Dr. Inbal Reuveni

Psychiatrist specializing in women’s mental health and trauma-informed psychiatric care, continuity of care, and clinical models for trauma-exposed populations.

Director

Amy Carol Dominguez

With years of experience in disaster behavioral health, she has trained leaders, supported crisis-affected populations, and built cross-sector collaborations.

Director

Ruti Rudner

Media executive, content creator, and doctoral researcher specializing in time, productivity, and social perception, with three decades in Israeli media.

Clinical & research experts

Scientific advisory panel

A global network of clinicians, researchers, and academic leaders guiding PreAct’s evidence-based frameworks, research initiatives, and clinical standards.

Governance and strategy

Organizational Panel

Professionals across education, emergency management, municipalities, nonprofits, technology, and communities - translating PreAct’s expertise into practice.

Mount Sinai Health System

Clinical leadership

A global leader in disaster psychiatry and mental health innovation, Mount Sinai has shaped approaches to responding to large-scale crises.

Tel Aviv Sourasky University Medical Center

Frontline expertise

Through its clinical teams, it brings extensive experience responding to war-related trauma, terror attacks, and large-scale mental health crises.

Global network

Cross-sector collaborations

Extending PreAct’s expertise through municipalities, universities, NGOs, and practitioners working to strengthen mental health preparedness.

›Partnerships

Building readiness through collaboration

PreAct partners across sectors to strengthen mental preparedness before, during, and after crisis.

Institutional partners

Health systems, hospitals, and municipal partners that co-develop response frameworks and pilot activity.

Academic collaboration

Universities and research teams supporting surveys, publications, evaluation, and applied field learning.

Professional bodies

Associations and advisory groups advancing standards, dissemination, and sector-wide learning.

Supporters and donors

Philanthropic and mission-aligned organizations investing in scalable mental health preparedness capacity.