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DISASTERS IN GENERAL	EARTHQUAKES	COVID19 / INFLUENZA
THE USA’S NEW POLICY DIRECTIVE ON NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS A WAY TO ENSURE A SUCCESSFUL GLOBAL LEGACY DURING THE 21ST CENTURY Part I Part II Part III AN URGENT GLOBAL RACE AGAINST TIME IS UNDERWAY Internet Education for Disaster: Mitigation: Supercourse HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TURNS CORNER IN JAPAN ON DAY 14: MARCH 24 MARCH 11-14, 2011 EXAMPLES OF NO PLACE TO GO AND NO ONE TO RESCUE in Spanish THE SCALE OF THE DISASTER IN JAPAN IS OVERWHELMING in Spanish Global Health, Cuban Health Cooperation and Disasters Public Health Disaster Consequences of Disasters (In Spanish) (In Russian) (In Arabic) (In Portuguese) (in Japan) Disaster and Multi-Casualty Triage (in Spanish) DISASTER DATA BASE: A New Experimental Model (in Spanish) Safety matters: How to Safely Evacuate from your Home Epidemiology of Disasters -part I- -part II- The Use of Epidemiologic Methods in Disasters Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases: The Perpetual Challenge to Global Health Disaster epidemiology General Considerations After a Disaster Marty Silverstein Lecture. Change is Hard Disaster epidemiology Data for Decision making in disasters: advances and controversies Epidemiological surveillance in disastres in Spanish DISASTER RISK REDUCTION IN MEXICO Disaster and Hospital Functions Disasters: The Public Health Impact Caring for Vulnerable Populations in the Community During a Disaster Basic Principles of Mass Gathering Medical Care (in Spanish) Disaster data base a new experimental model (in Spanish) Preparing to work in a crisis: Health and safety for field volunteers	M6.6 EARTHQUAKE IN INDONESIA THE ART AND SCIENCE OF IDENTIFYING AND ELIMINATING VULNERABILITIES TO EARTHQUAKES IN A COMMUNITY’S BUILT ENVIRONMENT TWO SMALL (M4.5 AND M5.2) EARTHQUAKES EXPOSE VULNERABILITIES IN OLD BUILDINGS IN LORCA, SPAIN Public Health Consequences of Earthquakes Part I. Part II. Chile Earthquake and Tsunami in Spanish MAGNITUDE 7.1 AFTERSHOCK STRIKES JAPAN M8.9 EARTHQUAKE/TSUNAMI IMPACTS JAPAN WITH THE TSUNAMI WAVES REACHING PACIFIC RIM COUNTRIES in Spanish in Russian in Chinese A SNAPSHOT OF THE SITUATION ASSESSMENT IN JAPAN ON DAY 4 SEARCH AND RESCUE, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE AFTER JAPAN’S EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI DISASTER in Spanish Survival & Recovery from a 7.8 & 8.8 Quake: Lessons from Haiti & Chile for the US INTEGRATING THE PAST WITH THE PRESENT. EARTHQUAKE SCENARIOS Haiti Earthquake in French in Spanish in Arabic Tectonic explanation of the May 12, 2008, Sichuan Earthquake in Chinese China Earthquake: 12 May 2008. Short version in Chinese in Spanish China Earthquake: 12 May 2008. Long version Pakistani Earthquake. 8 October 2005 (Spanish version) Earthquakes 2000 to 2005 From Indonesia to Pakistan Earthquake in Iran. Bam, December 26, 2003 (in Spanish) AFTERSHOCKS OF 2010’S M8.8 EARTHQUAKE OCCUR IN CHILE M6.8 EARTHQUAKE STRIKES NORTHEASTERN MYANMAR VULNERABILITY OF BUILDINGS TO EARTHQUAKE GROUND SHAKING WHAT COULD BE THE NEXT EARTHQUAKE DISASTER FOR JAPAN REMEMBERING 2O10’s EARTHQUAKES AND TSUNAMIS. Part I Part II EARTHQUAKE STRIKES CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND EARTHQUAKE HAZARDS AND EFFECTS SEATAC WASHINGTON. Part I Part II	Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic (Multilingual) 2019-novel Coronavirus (COVID-19): Facts & Misconception Corona virus disease 19 (COVID19). What all shall we know? Influenza A(H1N1) (Swine Flu): Pandemic Part II in Russian in Spanish Part II in Farsi in Arabic in Vietnamese in Malay in French in Macedonian in Chinese in Hebrew in Bosnian in Japanese Eric Marler, M.D. links about H1N1 influenza A Eric Marler, M.D. links about Avian Flu Swine Flu in Arabic Influenza: An Impending Pandemic Part I (in Macedonian) (in Spanish) (in Russian) (in Chinese) (in Persian) Part II (in Spanish) (in Macedonian) (in Chinese) (in Russian) AVIAN INFLUENZA: Zoonosis (In Spanish) Influenza (the flu) 1976 Swine Flu Vaccine Debacle and U.S. Vaccine Strategy for Avian Flu: History Repeating Itself? AVIAN INFLUENZA IN VIETNAM ‘Cum ga” (in Spanish) Biodefense and Pandemic Influenza: The Research and Public Health Interface BIRD FLU (In Spanish) How to Improve your Immune System. Part I. Bird Flu Part II Herd Protection against Influenza Challenges of Influenza Control in Spanish Incidence of Influenza in Ontario Following the Universal Influenza Immunization Campaign Networked Information Sharing on Disasters - http://nishada.blogspot.com/ Influenza in Russian INFLUENZA A (H1N1) in Portuguese New H1N1 Influenza - global pandemic in Macedonian Current Status of the H1N1 Flu Avian Influenza: Agricultural Perspectives & Interventions
BIOTERRORISM	Indonesia Earthquake 27 May 2006 in Spanish	RADIATION
Anthrax Anthrax II The History of Bioterrorism ‘I Think I Have Anthrax…’: Responding to Bioterror in the National Capital Region Microbial Threats to Health in the United States: Natural and Manmade Global Diseases biological challenges of the 21st Century A model response to bioterrorism: Pennsylvania Region 13-WMD Task Force Emerging Infectious Diseases and Bioterrorism Identification of Bioterrorism Agents. Part I Part II Public Health Response To Terrorism - Bioterrorism- in Chinese The Role of Information Technologies and Science in the Prevention of Bioterrorism. Part I Part I in Spanish Part II Assault with a Chemical Weapon: Its worse out there than just Bioterrorism. Part I Part II THE INTEGRAL ASSESSMENT OF BIOTERRORISM THREAT. Episode I. Introduction. Part I. Part II (Version in Russian)Part I. Part II. Episode II. OBJECTIVES, METHOD, TASKS (Version in Russian) Episode III. ONE YEAR AFTER. THE CHARACTER OF THREATS AND MAIN THREATS RANKING. (Version in Russian) Too Many Germs, Too Few Monkeys. The Need for Artificial Organisms for Testing and Validating Pharmaceuticals Biosafety and Threat Reduction Activities in Georgia/Biosafety/ Biosecurity in Georgia Modeling Potential Responses to Smallpox as a Bioterrorist Weapon	A Case Study for the Setting of Water Supply & Sanitation Priorities in the PAK Emergency Earthquake & Tsunami South Asia, 26 Dec 2004 Earthquake Mitigation (in Spanish) THE 99 MARMARA EARTHQUAKE AND AFTERWARDS (in Spanish) Earthquakes in Turkey Revelation of 5.12 Quake, Sichuan, China. Part I. Background of Earthquake Part2. Prevention Part3. During the Quake Part 4a. Short-term response after the quake Part 4b. Short-term response after the quake Part 5. Post-disaster problems that require long-term concern EXPERIENCE IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE EARTHQUAKE AT BHUJ IN INDIA Disaster Epidemiologic lessons from Bam Earthquake Dec 26, 2003 Iran. Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V Part VI Part VII NEW ZEALAND EARTHQUAKE 2010 in Spanish CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKE EXERCISE INDONESIA EARTHQUAKE, TSUNAMI, AND VOLCANIC ERUPTION. Part I Part II PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKES TWO EARTHQUAKES SEVERELY CUT NEW ZEALAND’S 2011 ECONOMIC GROWTH TURNING 2011’S DISASTERS INTO EDUCATIONAL SURGES THAT WILL ADVANCE DISASTER RESILIENCE. PART 2. Earthquake and Tzunami, Japan,2011.	THE FUKUSHIMA FACILITY IS STILL LEAKING RADIATION INTO THE AIR What We Know About Nuclear Energy? Russian version Arabic version Spanish version Japanese version in Ukrainian in Bosnian In Chinese RECOGNIZING THE “FUKUSHIMA 50” AND THEIR VALIANT EFFORT in Spanish Radiation Epidemiology and Leukemia. Part I Part II Part I Part II (in Russian) Radiation Part I Part II Amchitka Expedition as a Model for Multi- and Interdisciplinary Research into Radionuclide Contamination into the Marine Environment Chernobyl disaster and experience of population protection from nuclear accident Understanding Radiation Introduction to Radiation Health: Late Effects - Cancer Basics of Treatment of Victims of Radiation Terrorism or Accidents Follow-up of Persons Exposed to Radiation and Radioactivity Preparing for an Unplanned Radiation Event History of “Nuclear” Health Issues in Japanese
TERRORISM	TORNADOES	Air Safety
The Threat of NBC Terrorism Epidemiology of Fear. Part I Part II Health and National Security Issues of the USA Public Health Response to Terrorism -Preparedness- in Chinese Hacking as Warfare. Part I Part II The new approaches to the estimation of the epidemic risk (In Russian) Principles of Risk and Crisis Communication with the Public	WHAT IS A DEVASTATING TORNADO LIKE? SECOND EARLY SEASON TORNADO OUTBREAK IN USA 2011’S TREND OF DAMAGING TORNADOES CONTINUES IN THE MIDWESTERN USA TURNING 2011’S DISASTERS INTO EDUCATIONAL SURGES THAT WILL ADVANCE DISASTER RESILIENCE. PART 5. Tornado. AN EF- 4 TORNADO STRIKES OKLAHOMA CITY, OK AND ITS SUBURBS WORST SINGLE TORNADO SINCE 1953 STRIKES JOPLIN, MISSOURI TORNADO STRIKES AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND 164 TORNADOS IN 24 HOURS IMPACT 7 SOUTHEASTERN STATES. ALABAMA HIT BY EF5 STORM AN EF 4 TORNADO STRIKES LAMBERT AIRPORT IN NORTH ST LOUIS COUNTY, MISSOURI SEVERE DAMAGE IN OKLAHOMA AND NORTH CAROLINA HIGHLIGHT 3-DAY, 15- STATE TORNADO OUTBREAK SUPER TORNADO OUTBREAK THE TREND CONTINUES: MORE TORNADOES IN 2011 THAN IN 2010 TEN TORNADOES HIT NORTHERN AND CENTRAL WISCONSIN EF3 TORNADO WITH A ½ TO 3/4 MILE-WIDE PATH DEVASTATES MAPLETON, IOWA Tornados In Spanish TORNADO-RELATED DEATHS AND INJURIES DUE TO THE MAY 3, 1999 TORNADOES A Historical Look at Tornadoes: Damage and Death Kansas 9/14/04 Tornado Tornadoes	Air Safety and Terrorism (In Spanish) (In Arabic) ERUPTION OF TWO VOLCANOES IN KAMCHATKA (RUSSIA) THREATENS PEOPLE AND AVIATION SAFETY (In Spanish) Air Travel. Pleasure or Peril?
SEPTEMBER 11	HURRICANES	TSUNAMI
Understanding Sept.11 (In English) (In Russian) (In Chinese) (In Spanish) (In Turkish) (In Korean) (In Italian) (In Japanese) (In Hindi) (in French) Access to and Need for Counseling Among Children after the September 11th Attacks on the World Trade Center (in Spanish) Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers of New York. Response to the attack on the World Trade Center and Report on Preparedness for Future Events (in Spanish) First Principles for Homeland Security Contingency Planning in a Decentralized Environment. Part I Part II Part III Issues Associated with Population Protection from Disaster and Infectious Disease and the Role of Public Health MECHANICS OF PROGRESSIVE COLLAPSE: WHAT DID AND DID NOT DOOM WORLD TRADE CENTER, AND WHAT CAN WE LEARN ? Part I Part II	TURNING 2011’S DISASTERS INTO EDUCATIONAL SURGES THAT WILL ADVANCE DISASTER RESILIENCE. PART 4 (Continued) Hurricanes. THE CATASTROPHE AFTER IRENE’S EXIT (in Spanish) IRENE. A DISASTER FROM WATER, NOT WIND, IN THE NORTHEAST (in Spanish) HURRICANE IRENE After Landfall in North Carolina on August 27, 2011 IRENE. Ninth Storm and the First Hurricane of the 2011 BACKGROUND FOR THE 2011 HURRICANE SEASON HURRICANE EARL Hurricanes Part I (in Spanish) Part II (in Spanish) Part III (in Spanish) Hurricane Rita Hurricane (In Spanish) (In Chinese) Attribution of Recent Increases in Atlantic Hurricane Activity “BAD” HURRICANES: 1988-2008 TO EVACUATE OR NOT TO EVACUATE FOR HURRICANES. Part I Part II	Tsunami (In Arabic) (In Telugu) (In Spanish) M8.9 EARTHQUAKE/TSUNAMI IMPACTS JAPAN WITH THE TSUNAMI WAVES REACHING PACIFIC RIM COUNTRIES in Spanish in Russian in Chinese Chile Earthquake and Tsunami in Spanish IMPACT OF TSUNAMI ON ANIMALS IN INDIA: TSUNAMI-Disaster Management. Programs for Livestock SEARCH AND RESCUE, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE AFTER JAPAN’S EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI DISASTER in Spanish Earthquake & Tsunami South Asia, 26 Dec 2004 TSUNAMI IN INDIA AND TSUNAMI WALLS
LANDSLIDES	OTHER WINDSTORMS	FLOODS All Floods lectures(zipped file)
DEVASTATING LANDSLIDE IN THE PHILIPPINES INDUCED BY HEAVY RAIN REMEMBERING 2O10’S LANDSLIDES. Part I Part II LANDSLIDE TRAGEDY IN GUATEMALA in Spanish RAIN-TRIGGERED MUDSLIDE BURIES HUNDREDS IN SANTA MARIA TLAHUITOLTAPEC, MEXICO in Spanish RAIN-TRIGGERED LANDSLIDES IN BRAZIL LANDSLIDE DISASTER IN COLOMBIA	TURNING 2011’S DISASTERS INTO EDUCATIONAL SURGES THAT WILL ADVANCE DISASTER RESILIENCE. PART 4. Storms. 2011’s TWELFTH STORM AFTER IRENE: JOSE, KATIA, LEE, MARIA, NATE Part I Part II in Spanish 2O10 ATLANTIC BASIN TROPICAL STORM SEASON. Part I in Spanish Part II TROPICAL STORM HERMINE in Spanish UNDERSTANDING DISASTER-RISK REDUCTION FOR SEVERE WINDSTORMS. Part I Part II REMEMBERING 2O10’S SEVERE WINDSTORMS Part II Part III SUPER TYPHOON MEGI (MEANS “CATFISH” IN KOREAN) in Spanish PAST NOTABLE DISASTERS IN THE CARIBBEAN BASIN PACIFIC WINTER STORM MONSTER WINTER STORM CYCLONE YASI UNDERSTANDING AND PREPARING FOR SEVERE WINDSTORMS IN 2011 AND BEYOND THE GREAT SOLSTICE WINTER STORM OF 2010	SEASONAL MONSOON RAINS CAUSE FLOOD DISASTER AGAIN IN SOUTHERN PAKISTAN DISASTER RECOVERY. Part I: RECOVERY FROM FLOOD AND SEVERE WINDSTORM DISASTERS FLASH FLOODS SPAWNED BY TROPICAL STORM WASHI FLOODING IN BANGKOK, THAILAND AREA TURNING 2011’S DISASTERS INTO EDUCATIONAL SURGES THAT WILL ADVANCE DISASTER RESILIENCE. PART 6. Flooding. TURNING 2011’S DISASTERS INTO DISASTER RESILIENCE EDUCATIONAL SURGES. Part I. Floods. RECORD FLOODING IN NORTH AND SOUTH KOREA THE CATASTROPHE AFTER IRENE’S EXIT (in Spanish) IRENE. A DISASTER FROM WATER, NOT WIND, IN THE NORTHEAST (in Spanish) SOURIS RIVER REACHES RECORD HEIGHTS IN NORTH DAKOTA (USA) HISTORIC FLOOD CONTROL UNDERWAY IN LOUISIANA NO TIME TO WASTE IN THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER'S DELTA STATES SAINT LUCIA FLOODS AFTER FOUR DAYS OF RAIN SAVING DOWNSTREAM CITIES AND REFINERIES IS THE GOAL AS MISSISSIPPI RIVER CRESTS IN MEMPHIS AND FLOOD WATERS MOVE SOUTHWARD FLOODING CAUSED BY NON-STOP RAIN DEVASTATES WESTERN TANZANIA SWOLLEN MISSISSIPPI RIVER REACHES MID-SOUTH STATES AND MEMPHIS,TN AREA WIDESPREAD FLOODING IN NEW JERSEY AS LOCAL RIVERS OVERFLOW AFTER SPRING STORMS FLOODING FROM THE RED RIVER THREATENS THE FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA AREA AGAIN REMEMBERING 2O10’S FLOODS. Part I Part II Part I in Spanish Part II in Spanish FLOODS IN VIETNAM in Spanish Pakistan Floods. July-August 2010 in Japanese in Spanish RECORD FLOODING IN AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA’S FLOODING
Oil Leaks	SURVEILLANCE	MAD COW DISEASE
REMEMBERING 2O10’S OIL LEAKS AND SPILLS	National Electronic Disease Surveillance System Analysis, Reporting, and Feedback of Surveillance Data. Part I Part II Overview of Public Health Surveillance. Part I Part II	Evolution of the Mad Cow Disease in the United States Mad Cow Disease Outbreak in the United States. Following the Story in USA Today.
Volcanic Activity	Drought	WILDFIRES
TURNING 2011’S DISASTERS INTO EDUCATIONAL SURGES THAT WILL ADVANCE DISASTER RESILIENCE. PART 7. Volcano. CHILE’S VOLCANO PUYEHUE ERUPTS WITH A MASSIVE ASH CLOUD AND SPECTACULAR LIGHTNING REMEMBERING THE HISTORIC ERUPTION OF MOUNT PINATUBO, THE PHILIPPINES ICELAND’S GRIMSVOTN ERUPTS REMEMBERING 2O10’S VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS. Part I Part II MOUNT KARANGETANG ERUPTS IN INDONESIA SHINMOE-DAKE ERUPTS IN JAPAN MOUNT MERAPI EXPOSES POSSIBILITY OF HUGE HEALTH CARE NEEDS IN INDONESIA VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS: POTENTIAL MEGA-DISASTERS IN SLOW MOTION MOUNT BROMO FOLLOWS MOUNT MERAPI AND BEGINS TO ERUPT IN INDONESIA ERUPTION OF TWO VOLCANOES IN KAMCHATKA (RUSSIA) THREATENS PEOPLE AND AVIATION SAFETY (In Spanish)	CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES FACED DROUGHT CONDITIONS DURING 2010	TURNING 2011’S DISASTERS INTO EDUCATIONAL SURGES THAT WILL ADVANCE DISASTER RESILIENCE. PART 3.Wildfires. SIXTY-THREE WILDFIRES BURNING IN TEXAS in Spanish THREE-DOZEN WILDFIRES BURNING IN PARTS OF ARIZONA, NEW MEXICO, COLORADO, CALIFORNIA, TEXAS, AND GEORGIA WILDFIRES BURN OVER 1 MILLION ACRES OF DROUGHT-STRICKEN TEXAS 2010 WILDFIRE IN BOULDER COLORADO in Spanish ISRAEL’S 2010 WILDFIRE REMEMBERING 2O10’S WILDFIRES Part II WILDFIRES IN FLORIDA WILDFIRES RAGE OUT OF CONTROL IN WEST TEXAS AND TEXAS PANHAMDLE
OTHER LECTURES	INJURY (see another list of lectures)	INFECTIOUS DISEASES (see another list of lectures)
IMPROVING YOUR COMMUNITY’S CAPACITY FOR DISASTER RISK REDUCTION Collapse. What the mute Statues of Easter Island have to tell us about health care? DISASTER MANAGEMENT IN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY. Part I Part II Acute poisoning (In Russian) Songhua River Polution and Control in Harbin, China Tribal Emergency Response Preparedness Emergency preparedness in the Baltics (in Spanish) Increasing Capacity Needs for Health Communication in Emergency Situations The Mundane to the Critical: The Need for Transition from Individual Care to Population Health Maintenance NANO-MECHANICS BASED ASSESSMENT OF FAILURE RISK, SIZE EFFECT AND LIFETIME OF QUASIBRITTLE STRUCTURES AT DIFFERENT SCALES Economic Assessment of the Value of Statistical Life in Russian RESISTANCE AND RESILIENCE. Some basic postulates … HAZARD ANALYSIS FINK AND RISK Hazard, Threats, Risk, Etc. An examination of some key terms … Disaster preparedness in Estonia/Estonia Civil Protection Systems STATE FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICE: our view to Scientific Networking and Global Health Supercourse Preparing for the Preparedness Emergency and Disaster medicine system (EDMS) in Latvia Natural disaster risks in Ukraine in Russian “Is it Possible to Make People Accept Network Prevention as a Paradigm of Global Safety System?” “Safety Issues of Electric Power Production in Russian Federation: Brief Review and Analysis of Accidents and Emergencies" Epidemiologic profile and risk factors of traffic accidents in Tunisia The National Advisory Committee on Children and Terrorism and Current U.S. Changes in How Preparedness is Evaluated Concept and terms used by government of Estonia in the field of health care preparedness for disaster The Perspective of research for nurses in drugs consumption in Spanish INCORPORATING LAST YEAR’S DISASTER INFORMATION IN THIS YEAR’S EDUCATIONAL SURGES. Part I Part II Part III	Injury Epidemiology - Introduction Injury Epidemiology - Analytic Approaches Positional compression of mild tissues, as type of crush syndrome (In Russian) Medical Aspects of Blast Injuries Injury Epidemiology- Participatory Action Research and Quantitative Approaches in Small Populations Injury Prevention and Control in Spanish Disabilities due to Injury in the U.S. Armed Forces Motor Vehicle Crashes in Older Drivers in Spanish INJURY BIOMECHANICS Effectiveness of a State Law Mandating Use of Bicycle Helmets among Children: An Observational Evaluation Epidemiology of Childhood Fractures in Affluent and Deprived Areas Is the CT Scan important at the 24 Hours in Children with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury? International Multicentre Study Corticosteroid Randomisation After Significant Head Injury Teenage Driver Crashes - Carrying Passengers as a Risk Factor Safety education of pedestrian. A systematic review.	Dengue and Aedes Aegypti: a public health problem along the United States-Mexico border (Lecture number 1 - a series of Dengue lectures) Monkeypox: Outbreak in the US (in Spanish) Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases: The Perpetual Challenge to Global Health Infectious Disease Epidemiology DENGUE: EPIDEMIOLOGY PART 1 PART 2 PART I in Spanish PART II in Spanish Epidemiology of Emerging Infectious Diseases: An Examination of Global Threats From a Public Health Education Perspective Herd Immunity and Vaccination Dengue, Aedes aegypti, and Hurricane Reconstruction in The Caribbean and Central America: Prevention and Control Following a Natural Disaster (Lecture Number 2 - a series of Dengue Lectures) Dengue, Aedes aegypti, and Hurricane Reconstruction in The Caribbean and Central America: Prevention and Control Following a Natural Disaster (Lecture number 3 - a series of Dengue lectures) in Spanish Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). Part I Part I. (In Spanish) Part II Part II. (in Spanish) Part III PART III (in Spanish) Part IY PART IY (in Spanish) Part Y PART Y (in Spanish) Part YI PART YI (in Spanish) revised Communicable Diseases Following Natural Disasters: A Public Health Response
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Free GIS Data http://data.geocomm.com/ >From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/ This online resource for GIS and geospatial data has compiled data from a wide range of GIS Web sites located on the Internet. Some of the data is free once you set up a user account to be part of the GeoCommunity, with additional data available for a fee using the Premium option. Downloading may require the user to be proficient in GIS and own relevant software. Download options include: Digital Raster Graphic (DRG) Data, USGS Digital elevation Models (DEM), Digital Orthophotos (DOQ/DOQQ), and FEMA Flood Data. Bundles of data available for purchase include: VECTOR MAP (VMap) Level 1, National Wetlands Inventory, TIGER Data & U.S. Census Resources, data by individual states in the U.S. as well as data on countries around the globe. The majority of the datasets are in ARC/INFO E00, SHP, DLG, TIGER, and DEM formats. [VF] This site is also reviewed in the February 13, 2004 _NSDL MET Report_. The Cochrane Collaboration - Evidence Aid Project	2O10’S DISASTERS IN PICTURES. Part I Part II Part III Part I Part II Part III in Spanish Part IV DISASTER RISK REDUCTION. REMEMBERING 2OO7. Part I Part II 2009’S DISASTERS IN PICTURES DISASTER RESILIENT SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR DISASTER REDUCTION. Making Cities Disaster Resilient in Spanish EQUIPPING NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL “HELPING HANDS TEAMS” FOR ACTION WHEN THE INEVITABLE HAPPENS DISASTER RISK REDUCTION. REMEMBERING 2OO9 DISASTER RISK REDUCTION. REMEMBERING 2O1O: Part Ia. Part Ib Part IIa. Part IIb Part IIIa. Part IIIb Part IV Part V DISASTER RISK REDUCTION. REMEMBERING 2OO8 DISASTER RESILIENT TRANSPORTATATION SYSTEMS The Goal for 2011 and Beyond: Making Cities Disaster Resilient AN SOS FOR 2011. STRATEGIES ON SURVIVAL THE CHALLENGE OF THE 21ST CENTURY A FRAMEWORK FOR A COMPREHENSIVE, INTER-DISCIPLINARY DIALOGUE ON WHAT WE CALL “A DISASTER”	Department of Health in Emergencies & Disasters (HEAD), IRAN http://nihr.tums.ac.ir/disaster/ Disasters in 2009 Disasters in 2008 DISASTER RECOVERY RESOURCES -http://www.disasterrecoveryresources.net/index.php SCIENTIFIC NETWORKING AND THE GLOBAL HEALTH SUPERCOURSE FOR THE PREVENTION OF THREAT FROM MAN MADE AND NATURAL DISASTERS (Lectures from NATO Workshop, 2005, Lithuania) http://www.montclair.edu/pages/detectives/project/Summary.htm

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