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Session: Katrina, Responding to a Public Health Emergency: The Event and the Aftermath
3020.0: Monday, November 06, 2006: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Oral
Katrina, Responding to a Public Health Emergency: The Event and the Aftermath
Abstracts in this session will describe: how to assess, prioritize and fund emergent needs from a natural disaster, the health care needs that presented to mobile medical units deployed to assist victims of Hurricane Katrina, the relevant factors underlying African-American's evacuation response and how to integrate GIS into all levels of research on the environmental health impacts of natural disasters.
Learning Objectives: Participants will understand how to: 1)assess, prioritize and fund emergent needs from a natural disaster; 2)describe health care needs that presented to mobile medical units deployed to assist victims of Hurricane Katrina; 3)understand the relevant factors underlying African-American's evacuation response and 4) integrate GIS into all levels of research on the environmental health impacts of natural disasters.
Moderator(s):Scott Berns, MD, MPH
8:30 AMRapid population estimation of urban returnees displaced by natural disasters  [ Recorded presentation ]
Stephanie I. Davis, MSPH, Nathaniel Weaver, BA, Benjamin A. Sklaver, MA, Maureen Phelan, MS, Alden K. Henderson, PhD
8:45 AMAfrican Americans' evacuation response during Hurricane Katrina: Changes needed in preparedness planning  [ Recorded presentation ]
Sudha Xirasagar, MBBS, PhD, Keith Elder, PhD, MPH, MPA, Shelly-Ann Bowen, PhD (c), MPH, Debeshi Maitra, MHA, Dayna Campbell, MS
9:00 AMHealth care needs in immediate post-Katrina Mississippi: Informing future relief efforts  [ Recorded presentation ]
David M. Krol, MD, MPH, FAAP, Michael Redlener, Alan Shapiro, MD
9:15 AMNIEHS Hurricane Response Portal
Marie Lynn Miranda, Beth Anderson, Maureen Avakian, Mark Ellisman, Meredith Golden, Jonathan Goodall, Abel Lin, Lindell Ormsbee, Keith Pezzoli, Andy Hull, William Suk, Robert Tukey, Claudia Thompson, Bill Wheaton
9:30 AMLessons learned from Katrina: How the natural disaster response of a local philanthropy can enhance the public health infrastructure  [ Recorded presentation ]
Patricia G. Bray, PhD, Diane A. Pavey
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Community Health Planning and Policy Development
Endorsed by:Academic Public Health Caucus; Socialist Caucus; Women's Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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