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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 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

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