Purpose
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
Activities
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
Working Group Participants
Co-Chairs:
- Courtney Welton-Mitchell, Natural Hazards Center & Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado
- Luis Ceferino, New York University
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