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Emergency Preparedness

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September is National Emergency Preparedness month. This feature collects recent research by RAND Health that supports Emergency Preparedness. The topics include things individuals can do to stay safe during emergency situations, but also what lessons we can learn, culturally, from previous emergency situations.


 

Featured Video

PreparednessLynn Davis discusses individual response actions to terrorist attacks

Lynn E. Davis examines a scenario-driven approach that provides a rigorous way to identify actions - linked specifically to terrorist attacks - that individuals can take to protect their health and safety.

Featured Publications

Beating the Germ Insurgency — 2008

Melinda Moore

Promoting Accountability in Public Health Emergency Preparedness — 2007

Christopher Nelson, Nicole Lurie, Jeffrey Wasserman

Bioterrorism with Zoonotic Disease Public Health Preparedness Lessons from a Multiagency Exercise — 2007

Brian A. Jackson, James W. Buehler, Dana Cole, Susan Cookson, David J. Dausey, Lauren Honess-Morreale, Susan Lance, Roger C. Molander, Patrick O'Neal, Nicole Lurie

Quality Improvement Methods Can Be Used to Improve Public Health Emergency Preparedness — 2006

Michael Seid, Debra Lotstein, Valerie L. Williams, Christopher Nelson, Nicole Lurie, Karen A. Ricci, Allison Diamant, Jeffrey Wasserman, Stefanie Stern

Public Health Preparedness: An Opportunity and a Challenge — 2006

Nicole Lurie

Public Health Preparedness in the 21st Century — 2006

Nicole Lurie

Emergency Preparedness Is Stimulating Changes in Public Health Practice — 2006

Nicole Lurie, Jeffrey Wasserman, Christopher Nelson

Gaps in Public Health Preparedness: Lessons Learned in California — 2004

Nicole Lurie, Jeffrey Wasserman, Michael A. Stoto, Samuel L. Myers, Roger C. Molander, R. Burciaga Valdez, Jonathan E. Fielding, Steven M. Asch, B. David Mussington, Vanessa Solomon

Individual Preparedness and Response to Chemical, Radiological, Nuclear, and Biological Terrorist Attacks — 2003

Lynn E. Davis, Tom LaTourrette, David E. Mosher, Lois M. Davis, David R. Howell

 

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