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Creator: Litvak, Mark, Katherine Miller, Tehnaz Boyle, Rachel Bedenbaugh, Christina Smith, David Meguerdichian, David Reisman, Paul Biddinger, Adam Licurse, and Eric Goralnick.
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2021-03-10
Description: Disasters have many deleterious effects and are becoming more frequent. From a health-care perspective, disasters may cause periods of stress for hospitals and health-care systems. Telemedicine is a rapidly growing technology that has been used to… -
Creator: Center for Global Development (CGD)
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2019-05-09
Description: This report explores the lessons of the Ebola outbreak [2014-2015] through the lens of the US and UN policymakers who were forced to construct an unprecedented response in real time. It tells the story of their choices around four major policy… -
Creator: Marie A de Perio, Chad H Dowell, Lisa J Delaney, Lewis J Radonovich, David T Kuhar, Neil Gupta, Anita Patel, Satish K Pillai, Maryann D'Alessandro
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-05-19
Description: N95 respirators are personal protective equipment most often used to control exposures to infections transmitted via the airborne route. Supplies of N95 respirators can become depleted during pandemics or when otherwise in high demand. In this paper,… -
Creator: National Academy for State Health Policy
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2018-07-24
Description: Protecting public health in an era when infections can quickly spread from remote areas to major world cities requires creative and well-orchestrated responses from national, state, and local governments. -
Creator: Lauren M Sauer, Vikramjit Mukherjee
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2022-05-31
Description: The inextricable link between infectious disease preparedness and healthcare continues on full display as we move through the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the forefront of this link are the organizations, hospitals, and health systems that… -
Creator: CDC
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2020-07-24
Description: COVID-19: Plan, Prepare, and Respond -
Creator: Washington State Department of Health and Northwest Healthcare Response Network
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2021-11
Description: In the event of a large-scale disaster, either a no-notice event such as a natural disaster or a prolonged situation such as a pandemic, there is the potential for an overwhelming number of critically ill or injured patients. In these situations,… -
Creator: Ranscombe, Peter.
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-04-17
Description: An expert in rural health advises governments to take a systematic approach to tackling the coronavirus crisis rather than focusing solely on urban areas. Peter Ranscombe reports. -
Creator: Nathan L. Yozwiak, Christian T. Happi, Donald S. Grant, John S. Schieffelin, Robert F. Garry, Pardis C. Sabeti, and Kristian G. Andersen, on behalf of the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium and the African Center of Excellence for Genomics of…
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2016-06-30
Description: Summary
Recent infectious disease epidemics illustrate how health systems failures anywhere can create disease vulnerabilities everywhere. We must therefore prioritize investments in health care infrastructure in outbreak-prone regions of the… -
Creator: Mello, Michelle M., Govind Persad, and Douglas B. White.
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-05-19
Description: In times of emergency, many legal strictures can flex. For example, to enable hospitals to respond to Covid-19, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently waived a swath of federal regulatory requirements.