This lecture is dedicated by Global Health Disaster Network (GHDN) to the victims of Pakistan earthquake, 8 Oct 2005.

Please send the messages to “aardalan@gmail.com”, “khawar.kazmi@aku.edu” and “Ronlaporte@aol.com”. It would be great to have you involved.

Authors:

Ali Ardalan, MD, MPH, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Health in Emergency & Disaster Division

Institute of Public Health Research

School of Public Health & Institute of Public Health Research

Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Tehran, Iran

Khawar Kazmi MD

Associate Professor & Consultant Cardiologist

Department of Medicine

Director of Smart Heart Program

Aga khan University

Karachi, Pakistan

Ronald E. LaPorte, Ph.D.
Professor of Epidemiology

Director, Disease Monitoring and Telecommunications, WHO Collaborating Centre
Graduate School of Public Health
University of Pittsburgh
USA

Kourosh Holakouie Naieni MPH, Ph.D.

Professor

Institute of Public Health Research

School of Public Health & Institute of Public Health Research

Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Tehran, Iran

Sunita Dodani MD, FCPS, MS

Department of Epidemiology

University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA 15261 USA

Farshad Pourmalek MD, MPH, PhD

School of Public Health & Institute of Public Health Research

Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Tehran, Iran

Eugene Shubnikov, MD

Senior Research Fellow

Institute of Internal Medicine

Novosibirsk City, Russia

Faina Linkov, M.P.H.

Research Assistant

Department of Epidemiology

University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA 15261 USA

Mehdi Russel MD, MBA, Ph.D.

General Secretariat of Health Risk Management & Emergencies

Ministry of Health & Medical Education

Iran

Eric K Noji, MD, MPH

Senior Advisor to the Director

Office of Emergency Preparedness & Response (NCEH/ATSDR)

Centers for Disease Control (CDC)

USA