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Lessons From Boston
RWJF Clinical Scholar Jeremiah Schuur, MD, an emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, helped treat many of the Boston Marathon bombing victims. Here's what he learned.
Emergency Preparedness and Response
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Public Health Response to Hurricane Sandy
Hurricane Sandy presented some of the greatest public health and emergency preparedness challenges from extreme weather in recent history, leaving dozens dead, and millions without power across a wide swath of the Northeast. This superstorm tested the capabilities of the public health system, and public health officials responded in heroic fashion. Public Health is there to help keep our communities safe and healthy before, through, and after storms like Hurricane Sandy.
How Ready is Your State for a Health Emergency?
Ready or Not? Protecting the Public from Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism
The 10th annual Ready or Not? report from the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation shows persistent gaps in states’ preparedness to respond to events ranging from bioterrorist threats to hurricanes to serious disease outbreaks.
Focus on Public Health
Geographic Variations in Public Health Spending
As state and local health departments cope with budget cuts, job losses, and the demands of preparing communities for both seasonal and H1N1 flu, it’s more important than ever to build the evidence for what works—and what is cost-effective—in public health. Public Health Services and Systems Research answers questions about how public health can be structured, managed, staffed, funded, and organized so it can improve the lives of the people it serves.
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September 11th Attack and the Intentional Release of Anthrax Q&A: CDC and Public Health Respond
September 6, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation recently issued a new report, Remembering 9/11 and Anthrax: Public Health’s Vital Role in National Defense. NewPublicHealth will continue to run excerpts from the report throughout th ...
Helping Kids Handle 9/11 and Disaster Preparedness
September 2, 2011 | New Public Health Post
The next week will see the ten year anniversary of the attacks on September 11, 2001 covered widely locally, on television and over social media. The images and memories will be grim and likely to evoke sad feelings in many Americans, including chil ...
Hurricane Irene Status Updates - From Facebook: A Q&A With Clay Stamp
August 31, 2011 | New Public Health Post
When Hurricane Irene hit the East Coast this past weekend, the Emergency Services Department in Talbot County, MD ramped up use of its Facebook and Twitter accounts to communicate with residents who wanted regular updates. NewPublicHealth spoke with ...
Red Cross Gets Twitter Badges for Hurricane Irene
August 29, 2011 | New Public Health Post
It wasn’t business as usual during Hurricane Irene for the American Red Cross. For the first time, trained digital volunteers monitored Twitter and Facebook conversations about the hurricane and stepped in with relevant updates, including shelter lo ...
Disaster Preparedness: Are You Ready?
August 25, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Judging by traffic in the last 36 hours on local and federal government social media sites, preparedness has the nation’s attention right now—no surprise given the 5.8 magnitude earthquake that hit the East coast Tuesday and the increasing intensity ...
Pandemic Flu Preparedness
June 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
Findings from a new report by Trust for America's Health (TFAH).
Zombies Attack - Are You Prepared?
August 16, 2011 | New Public Health Post
"Zombies" took over Philadelphia yesterday, in an effort to make sure public health planners can be prepared for any situation that might arise, according to a news release from Drexel University. Drexel University hosts a weeklong certificate progr ...
Preparedness Goes Social: Twitter, Texts and Facebook for Health Emergencies
July 29, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Can you help community members avoid public health catastrophe in 140 characters or less? When it comes to tweeting and texting emergency preparedness and response messages, maybe so. A new perspective piece in the New England Journal of Medicine of ...
HHS Emergency Text Message Tool Kit: Txts Cn Sv Lives
June 27, 2011 | New Public Health Post
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has created a toolkit of public health emergency text messages. In an emergency such as flooding, power outages, or severe storms, for example, public health departments can send the messages to commu ...
Article on Legal Underpinnings of Emergency Preparedness Wins AcademyHealth Interest Group Award
June 15, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Effective management of modern public health emergencies requires coordinated efforts of multiple agencies representing various disciplines. That’s the focus of the paper “Achieving Public Health Legal Preparedness: How Dissonant Views on Public Hea ...