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Source: Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Published: 10/2018. This 71-page study highlights how strategic investment in 15 promising technologies could help make the world better prepared and equipped to prevent future infectious disease outbreaks from becoming catastrophic events. It provides context for those technologies, demonstrating their promise, limitations, and conditions under which they might be developed and employed successfully. (PDF)
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Source: United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction Secretariat (UNISDR). Published: 10/2018. This 33-page report evaluates total disaster-related economic losses and fatalities between 1998 and 2017. The report finds that between 1998 and 2017, climate-related and geophysical disasters killed 1.3 million people and left a further 4.4 billion injured, homeless, displaced, or in need of emergency assistance. While the majority of fatalities were due to geophysical events, mostly earthquakes and tsunamis, 91 percent of all disasters were caused by floods, storms, droughts, heatwaves, and other extreme weather events. (PDF)
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Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Homeland Security Research Center (NHSRC). Published: 9/2018. This 57-page report discusses a decontamination project that evaluated the decontamination efficacy and physical migration (transport) of Bacillus spores and operational efficiency of two types of sprayer technologies: electrostatic and traditional electric backpack sprayers. These sprayers were used to apply a decontamination solution to materials that are common constituents of emergency responder personal protective equipment (PPE) under operationally relevant exposure conditions and contact times. (PDF)
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Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Published: 8/2018. This self-paced course for responders about their behavioral health includes videos featuring emergency medical technicians and fire personnel, scenarios, and interactive quizzes. It addresses occupational stressors; mental health and substance use issues, including depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, suicidality, and alcohol use; resilience; and healthy coping mechanisms, including demonstrations of stress management techniques. (Video or Multimedia)
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Source: Administration for Children and Families [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services] (ACF). Published: 2/2018. This 41-page document provides trauma-informed resources and survivor-informed practices to support and collaborate with survivors of human trafficking as professionals. It is appropriate for use by anti-trafficking organizations, coalitions, task forces, volunteer programs, and other organizations who wish to improve collaboration with those impacted by human trafficking. (PDF)
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