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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: 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: 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. -
Creator: Baud, David, Xiaolong Qi, Karin Nielsen-Saines, Didier Musso, Léo Pomar, and Guillaume Favre.
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-03-31
Description: As of March 1, 2020, 79 968 patients in China and 7169 outside of China had tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).This article resulted in correspondence and the following responding articles: Spychalski, Piotr, Agata… -
Creator: Madad, Syra, Joshua Moskovitz, Matthew R. Boyce, Nicholas V. Cagliuso, and Rebecca Katz.
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-03-16
Description: Over the past century, society has achieved great gains in medicine, public health, and health-care infrastructure, particularly in the areas of vaccines, antibiotics, sanitation, intensive care and medical technology. -
Creator: Chowkwanyun, Merlin, and Adolph L. Reed.
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-05-06
Description: In early April, Wisconsin and Michigan released data showing stark racial disparities in rates of Covid-19 cases and deaths.