253632 Acute Global Response and Re-building a System

Tuesday, November 1, 2011: 8:50 AM

Jordan Tappero, MD MPH , Health Systems Reconstruction Office, CDC, Atlanta, GA
     
In this session, expert panelists – all of whom have completed work in some capacity in the global arena – will provide their insights in the continuum of ongoing HSS as well as acute emergency events, how they relate and the considerations that must be given to both in preparing a global community for the next set of disasters to unfold. While the session will contrast the vastly different considerations on both sides of the spectrum in this global health work, it will also provide insight into how this work is both inter-related and complementary. i. Presenter will discuss the immediate response to the 2010 Haitian earthquake as well as the later cholera epidemic as case examples of broader issues related to global health systems strengthening.

Learning Areas:
Diversity and culture
Provision of health care to the public
Public health or related research

Learning Objectives:
Describe an Acute Global Response and the methods for Re-building a public health System

Keywords: Disasters, Developing Countries

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am the director of the Director, Health Systems Reconstruction Office in the Center for Global Health at Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and hhave written and spoken on these issues
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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