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RADIATION TSUNAMI EARTHQUAKES INFLUENZA DISASTERS IN GENERAL

SEPTEMBER 11

HURRICANES

LANDSLIDES

MAD COW DISEASE

OTHER LECTURES

BIOTERRORISM

TORNADOES

INJURY

INFECTIOUS DISEASES

 

TERRORISM

OTHER WINDSTORMS  

SURVEILLANCE

Related web sites

Air Safety

FLOODS

 

Disaster Nursing web page

Lectures by Walter Hays

 

RADIATION

EARTHQUAKES

INFLUENZA

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

THE FUKUSHIMA FACILITY IS STILL LEAKING RADIATION INTO THE AIR

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

M8.9 EARTHQUAKE/TSUNAMI IMPACTS JAPAN WITH THE TSUNAMI WAVES REACHING PACIFIC RIM COUNTRIES   in Spanish  in Russian  in Chinese

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

Chile Earthquake and Tsunami  in Spanish

Haiti Earthquake  in French   in Spanish  in Arabic

Tectonic explanation of the May 12, 2008, Sichuan Earthquake  in Chinese

Public Health Consequences of Earthquakes Part I.     Part II.

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

Eric Marler, M.D. links about H1N1 influenza A

Eric Marler, M.D. links about Avian Flu

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

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?

DISASTERS IN GENERAL

Indonesia Earthquake 27 May 2006   in Spanish AVIAN INFLUENZA IN VIETNAM ‘Cum ga”  (in Spanish)

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

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

EARTHQUAKE STRIKES CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND

EARTHQUAKE HAZARDS AND EFFECTS SEATAC WASHINGTON. Part I    Part II

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

 

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 

 

Disaster and Hospital Functions

TORNADOES

Air Safety

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

Disasters: The Public Health Impact

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

Air Travel. Pleasure or Peril? 

Climatic changes, Disasters and Human Health. HAARP Project case (In Spanish)

HURRICANES

TSUNAMI

Role of NGOs in Disasters

Dead Bodies and Disasters: Principles of Mortuary Services  (in Spanish)

Supercourse and Disaster Management Training

BOOKS OF KNOWLEDGE THAT WILL MAKE COMMUNITIES SAFER

DISASTER SCENARIOS

2010 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: THE YEAR OF “RECORD AND NEAR-RECORD” NATURAL DISASTERS

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

Chile Earthquake and Tsunami   in Spanish

IMPACT OF TSUNAMI ON ANIMALS IN INDIA: TSUNAMI-Disaster Management. Programs for Livestock

Tsunami (In Arabic)  (In Telugu)  (In Spanish)          

Earthquake & Tsunami South Asia, 26 Dec 2004

TSUNAMI IN INDIA AND TSUNAMI WALLS

LANDSLIDES

OTHER WINDSTORMS

FLOODS

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

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

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

RECORD FLOODING IN AUSTRALIA

AUSTRALIA’S FLOODING

BIOTERRORISM

TERRORISM

MAD COW DISEASE

Anthrax       Anthrax II 
The History of Bioterrorism

Epidemiology of Fear. Part I     Part II

Health and National Security Issues of the USA

Evolution of the Mad Cow Disease in the United States
‘I Think I Have Anthrax…’: Responding to Bioterror in the National Capital Region Public Health Response to Terrorism -Preparedness-  in Chinese Mad Cow Disease Outbreak in the United States. Following the Story in USA Today.
Microbial Threats to Health in the United States: Natural and Manmade The Threat of NBC Terrorism 

SURVEILLANCE

Global Diseases biological challenges of the 21st Century Hacking as Warfare. Part I     Part II

National Electronic Disease Surveillance System

A model response to bioterrorism: Pennsylvania Region 13-WMD Task Force

Emerging Infectious Diseases and Bioterrorism

The new approaches to the estimation of the epidemic risk  (In Russian)

Analysis, Reporting, and Feedback of Surveillance Data.  Part I  Part II

Identification of Bioterrorism Agents. Part I   Part II  Overview of Public Health Surveillance. 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 Principles of Risk and Crisis Communication with the Public

 

Assault with a Chemical Weapon: Its worse out there than just Bioterrorism. Part I      Part II

INJURY (see another list of lectures)

INFECTIOUS DISEASES (see another list of lectures)

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

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

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

Biosafety and Threat Reduction Activities in Georgia/Biosafety/ Biosecurity in Georgia Disabilities due to Injury in the U.S. Armed Forces

Motor Vehicle Crashes in Older Drivers    in Spanish

Epidemiology of Emerging Infectious Diseases: An Examination of Global Threats From a Public Health Education Perspective

 

Modeling Potential Responses to Smallpox as a Bioterrorist Weapon

INJURY BIOMECHANICS

Herd Immunity and Vaccination

OTHER LECTURES

Effectiveness of a State Law Mandating Use of Bicycle Helmets among Children: An Observational Evaluation 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)
IMPROVING YOUR COMMUNITY’S CAPACITY FOR DISASTER RISK REDUCTION Epidemiology of Childhood Fractures in Affluent and Deprived Areas 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
Collapse. What the mute Statues of Easter Island have to tell us about health care?

DISASTER MANAGEMENT IN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY. Part I  Part II

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

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 
Acute poisoning (In Russian) Teenage Driver Crashes - Carrying Passengers as a Risk Factor Communicable Diseases Following Natural Disasters: A Public Health Response
Songhua River Polution and Control in Harbin, China Safety education of pedestrian. A systematic review.

SEPTEMBER 11

Tribal Emergency Response Preparedness

Lectures by Walter Hays

Understanding Sept.11   (In English)     (In Russian)        (In Chinese)   (In Spanish)    (In Turkish)     (In Korean)    (In Italian)  (In Japanese) (In Hindi)   (in French)
Emergency preparedness in the Baltics   (in Spanish) REMEMBERING 2O10’S OIL LEAKS AND SPILLS Access to and Need for Counseling Among Children after the September 11th Attacks on the World Trade Center   (in Spanish)
Increasing Capacity Needs for Health Communication in Emergency Situations CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES FACED DROUGHT CONDITIONS DURING 2010 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)
The Mundane to the Critical: The Need for Transition from Individual Care to Population Health Maintenance EQUIPPING NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL “HELPING HANDS TEAMS” FOR ACTION WHEN THE INEVITABLE HAPPENS First Principles for Homeland Security Contingency Planning in a Decentralized Environment. Part I   Part II   Part III   
The Goal for 2011 and Beyond: Making Cities Disaster Resilient Issues Associated with Population Protection from Disaster and Infectious Disease and the Role of Public Health
NANO-MECHANICS BASED ASSESSMENT OF FAILURE RISK, SIZE EFFECT AND LIFETIME OF QUASIBRITTLE STRUCTURES AT DIFFERENT SCALES 2O10’S DISASTERS IN PICTURES. Part I  Part II    Part III  Part I   Part II  Part III in Spanish  Part IV MECHANICS OF PROGRESSIVE COLLAPSE: WHAT DID AND DID NOT DOOM WORLD TRADE CENTER, AND WHAT CAN WE LEARN ? Part I    Part II
Economic Assessment of the Value of Statistical Life in Russian 2009’S DISASTERS IN PICTURES
RESISTANCE AND RESILIENCE. Some basic postulates …
HAZARD ANALYSIS

FINK AND RISK

REMEMBERING 2O10’S VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS. Part I   Part II

DISASTER RISK REDUCTION. REMEMBERING 2OO7. Part I    Part II

Related web sites: 

Hazard, Threats, Risk, Etc. An examination of some key terms … DISASTER RESILIENT SCHOOLS 

Disasters in 2009

Disaster preparedness in Estonia/Estonia Civil Protection Systems

Disasters in 2008

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

INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR DISASTER REDUCTION. Making Cities Disaster Resilient  in Spanish

SHINMOE-DAKE ERUPTS IN JAPAN

MOUNT MERAPI EXPOSES POSSIBILITY OF HUGE HEALTH CARE NEEDS IN INDONESIA

VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS: POTENTIAL MEGA-DISASTERS IN SLOW MOTION

WILDFIRES IN FLORIDA

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

MOUNT BROMO FOLLOWS MOUNT MERAPI AND BEGINS TO ERUPT IN INDONESIA

2010 WILDFIRE IN BOULDER COLORADO   in Spanish

ISRAEL’S 2010 WILDFIRE

REMEMBERING 2O10’S WILDFIRES  Part II

AN SOS FOR 2011. STRATEGIES ON SURVIVAL

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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