The Public Health Working Group contibrutes to the mission of the Learning from Earthquakes program and fosters post-earthquake learning across diverse disciplines and areas of study. Public health is inextricably tied to the natural, built, social, and political environments and constitutes a key component of resilience. The Working Group aims to:

• Identify and address gaps in knowledge about the public health and healthcare impacts of earthquakes, as well as the implementation and effectiveness of preparedness, mitigation, response and recovery solutions
• Integrate public health and healthcare disaster experts into interdisciplinary earthquake reconnaissance and research
• Bolster the next generation of public health- and healthcare- focused disaster scientists and engineers

Current working group activities include:

• Developing protocols and a data collection tool for conducting public health- and healthcare-related reconnaissance work
• Assembling a database of pre-disaster hospital assessments
• Determining public health and healthcare-related scientific and engineering priorities for study following major earthquakes

Co-Chairs: To be updated 2022

Secretary: To be updated 2022

Annual Meeting Coordinator: To be updated 2022

Webmaster: To be updated 2022

Members:

• Megan Archer, University of Washington
• Kristen Blowes, University of British Columbia
• Luis Ceferino, New York University
• Lauren Clay, D'Youville College
• Karl Eid, University of Illinois
• Nicole Errett, University of Washington
• Felianne Hipol, University of Utah
• Amber Khan, University of Washington
• Judith Mitrani-Reiser, NIST
• Carlos Molina Hutt, University of British Columbia
• Ashley Morales-Cartagena, Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra
• Janise Rodgers, Geohazards International
• Kimberley Shoaf, University of Utah
• Courtney Welton-Mitchell, Natural Hazards Center & Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado