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January 2018

Featured in this issue: Plan, Inform, Practice – Factoring in Resilience, By Catherine L. Feinman; Incident Scale & the Need for Operational Resilience, By John Contestabile & Richard Waddell; Making Schools Safe & Secure – A Local to National Effort, By Mary Filardo; Animal Relocation After Disaster – Four Cases

Tips for Survivors of a Disaster or Other Traumatic Event: Coping With Retraumatization

Over the past several months, many communities have experienced multiple disasters ranging from hurricanes to mass shootings to wildfires. Survivors who have lived through multiple disasters may experience the effects of retraumatization. This tip sheet helps disaster survivors cope with their emotions and get through this challenge. https://store.samhsa.gov/shin/content//SMA17-5047/SMA17-5047.pdf

Tips for Survivors of a Disaster or Other Traumatic Event: Coping With Retraumatization

Over the past several months, many communities have experienced multiple disasters ranging from hurricanes to mass shootings to wildfires. Survivors who have lived through multiple disasters may experience the effects of retraumatization. This tip sheet helps disaster survivors cope with their emotions and get through this challenge. https://store.samhsa.gov/shin/content//SMA17-5047/SMA17-5047.pdf

Ready or Not? Protecting the Public’s Health from Diseases, Disasters and Bioterrorism

Ready or Not? examines the nation’s ability to respond to public health emergencies, tracks progress and vulnerabilities, and includes a review of state and federal public health preparedness policies. The report also provides a series of recommendations that address many of the major gaps in emergency health preparedness. http://healthyamericans.org/assets/files/TFAH-2017-ReadyOrNot-FINAL.pdf

Ready or Not? Protecting the Public’s Health from Diseases, Disasters and Bioterrorism

Ready or Not? examines the nation’s ability to respond to public health emergencies, tracks progress and vulnerabilities, and includes a review of state and federal public health preparedness policies. The report also provides a series of recommendations that address many of the major gaps in emergency health preparedness. http://healthyamericans.org/assets/files/TFAH-2017-ReadyOrNot-FINAL.pdf

December 2017

Featured in this issue: Emerging Threats to Rail Infrastructure: Part I, Freight, By Joseph Trindal; ARTful Leadership & Disaster Management, By Eric J. McNulty; The Presidency & Control of Nuclear Weapons, By Jerome H. Kahan; Mass Fatality Research – New York & Beyond, By Katie Joel & Terry Hastings; Indiana’s

Homeland Security: DHS’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Program Consolidation Efforts

In 2013, Congress directed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to review its weapons of mass destruction programs, including the consolidation of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high-yield explosive mission functions. The Government Accountability Office reviewed DHS consolidation planning documents, interviewed relevant officials, and obtained selected updated information on

Homeland Security: DHS’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Program Consolidation Efforts

In 2013, Congress directed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to review its weapons of mass destruction programs, including the consolidation of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high-yield explosive mission functions. The Government Accountability Office reviewed DHS consolidation planning documents, interviewed relevant officials, and obtained selected updated information on

Outbreak Response and Incident Management: SHEA Guidance and Resources for Healthcare Epidemiologists in United States Acute-Care Hospitals

This expert guidance document was developed as a resource to provide healthcare epidemiologists working in acute-care hospitals with a high-level overview of incident management for infectious disease outbreaks and to prepare them to work within an emergency response framework. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/infection-control-and-hospital-epidemiology/article/outbreak-response-and-incident-management-shea-guidance-and-resources-for-healthcare-epidemiologists-in-united-states-acutecare-hospitals/8C035426B3C86E075BBB0AFFAE42F0AC/core-reader#

Outbreak Response and Incident Management: SHEA Guidance and Resources for Healthcare Epidemiologists in United States Acute-Care Hospitals

This expert guidance document was developed as a resource to provide healthcare epidemiologists working in acute-care hospitals with a high-level overview of incident management for infectious disease outbreaks and to prepare them to work within an emergency response framework. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/infection-control-and-hospital-epidemiology/article/outbreak-response-and-incident-management-shea-guidance-and-resources-for-healthcare-epidemiologists-in-united-states-acutecare-hospitals/8C035426B3C86E075BBB0AFFAE42F0AC/core-reader#

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