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Public Health Working Group

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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

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