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Disaster Lit® Database Daily Updates

Sex Matters: A Gender Perspective on Internal Displacement

02/01/2019 12:00 AM EST

Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC). Published: 2/2019. This eight-page paper presents some of the most frequently reported gender inequalities linked with internal displacement and calls for better disaggregation of all related data and research. Bridging this knowledge gap is essential to propose tailored solutions for internally displaced men, women, boys, girls, and people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, intersex, or queer (LGBTIQ), to mitigate the damages caused by internal displacement on society as a whole. (PDF)

Global Health Histories Seminar 116: Antimicrobial Resistance

01/30/2019 12:00 AM EST

Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 1/30/2019. Speakers in this one-hour, 26-minute discussion, presented by the World Health Organization in collaboration with the University of York, bring natural science and social science/humanities perspectives on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) to explore issues and consider the ways forward. They discuss how some see new antibiotics as the solution to the problem, but there needs to be a shift toward better understanding how resistance develops, evolves, and transmits between bacterial species and among humans. (Video or Multimedia)

DoD (Department of Defense) Directive 5101.20E: DoD Biological Select Agents and Toxins (BSAT) Biosafety and Biosecurity Program

01/25/2019 12:00 AM EST

Source: U.S. Department of Defense (DOD). Published: 1/25/2019. The purpose of this 10-page document is to establish policy and assign responsibilities for the Department of Defense (DoD) Biological Select Agents and Toxins (BSAT) Security Program, and for meeting the safety standards for microbiological and biomedical laboratories. It provides guidelines and functions for the DoD BSAT Biorisk Program, and a related glossary. (PDF)

Toward Understanding the Interplay of Environmental Stressors, Infectious Disease, and Human Health

01/16/2019 12:00 AM EST

Source: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division (HMD). Published: 1/16/2019. This Web page provides information and materials from a workshop held on January 15-16, 2019, to explore the growing body of research on the links between environmental stressors, infectious disease, and human health. Participants explored if environmental stressors play a role in human susceptibility to infection, and how research on the interplay between these fields could inform new health practices, public health research, and public health policy. (Text)

Global Health Histories Seminar 111: Zika

10/08/2018 12:00 AM EDT

Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 10/8/2018. This two-hour, eight-minute webinar, presented by the World Health Organization in collaboration with the University of York, considers the challenges to improve scientific and political coordination to enhance the right to health during future epidemic threats; the potential and pitfalls of community-centered responses to the Zika epidemic; and the need to improve social movements’ participation in science and policy-making process before and during public health emergencies. (Video or Multimedia)

Gender and Emergency Management (GEM) Guidelines: A Literature Review

04/01/2018 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Gender & Disaster Pod . Published: 4/2018. This 21-page document is a literature review related to the National Gender and Emergency Management (GEM) Guidelines, which intend to improve Australia’s ability to prevent, prepare, respond to, and recover from natural disasters. It discusses why GEM guidelines are needed, and explores gendered vulnerability in disasters. (PDF)