The NCDMPH serves as the Nation's academic center of excellence for education, training, and educational research in disaster medicine and public health preparedness.
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----- The LATEST from NCDMPH ----- The Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) system will send a location-based, and free, special text message to those in danger of a life-threatening emergency. More ... FEMA has released the 2012 National Preparedness Report, a summary of the progress made toward fulfilling the 31 core capabilities described in the National Preparedness Goal. More ... The Children's HHS Interagency Leadership on Disasters (CHILD) Working Group has released its 2011 recommendations and implementation efforts. More ... NOAA and FEMA have partnered to make April 22-28 the first-ever National Severe Weather Preparedness Week. More ... The NCDMPH has published its first peer-reviewed article - "Core Competencies for Disaster Medicine and Public Health" in the March issue of Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. More ... The Institutes of Medicine (IOM) has released A Crisis of Care: A Systems Framework for Catastrophic Disaster Response for disaster scenarios in which resources may be scarce. More ... The "Toward a Pediatric Disaster Health Curriculum" one-pager is a detailed update from the NCDMPH on it is pediatric preparedness education work. More ... The NCDMPH has released the Report on the Domestic Natural Disaster Health Workforce, a landscape analysis describing selected aspects of the health professions workforce who would respond to a catastrophic domestic natural disaster. More ... |
A step-by-step process for how Wireless Emergency Alerts will be sent.
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