Webinar recording; health information on tornadoes and flooding

Webinar recording; health information on tornadoes and flooding

Recording and Slides: National Library of Medicine Exhibits: Managing Information Around Public Health Emergencies and Pandemics

The February 14, 2019 webinar featured speakers from the National Library of Medicine. Patricia Tuohy introduced the Exhibition Program’s new Exhibitions Connect initiative, curated resource guides of health information resources related to individual banner exhibitions. Highlighting the new National Library of Medicine exhibition “Politics of Yellow Fever in Alexander Hamilton's America,” as a case study, Ms. Tuohy reviewed the Exhibition Program’s strategy for creating this resource guide, and how host venues are able to use the guide to connect their communities to NLM resources. Christie Moffatt discussed how the NLM Web Collecting and Archiving Working Group collects born-digital web resources on public health emergencies, such as the Ebola outbreak of 2014, the 2016 Zika Virus health threat, and most recently, on the ongoing opioid epidemic.
Find the recording and slides https://disasterinfo.nlm.nih.gov/webinars#2019

Tornadoes and floods across the U.S.Two National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM) regional libraries have reached out to members to ask about damage to institutions and to provide access to disaster health information due to recent tornadoes in Alabama and Georgia and floods in California.

The NNLM Southeast Atlantic Region published a blog post asking libraries and organizations to reply with information on the status of their institution as a result of tornadoes in Alabama and Georgia, and provided links to disaster health information from the National Library of Medicine and others aimed at the general public and the professional health care and responder audience .

The NNLM Pacific Southwest Region  has been in touch with members in  Sonoma County after the recent rain and flooding from the Guerneville River in northern CA. They have provided members with link to information on flooding for the general public (Spanish) as well as the professional health care and responder audience.

SAMHSA Disaster Distress Helpline provides 24/7, 365-day-a-year crisis counseling and support to people experiencing emotional distress related to natural or human-caused disasters.

• Call 1-800-985-5990 or text TalkWithUs to 66746 to connect with a trained crisis counselor.
• Deaf/Hard of Hearing: Text TalkWithUs to 66746; Use your preferred relay service to call the Disaster Distress Helpline at 1-800-985-5990; TTY 1-800-846-8517
• Spanish Speakers: Call 1-800-985-5990 and press "2"; From the 50 States, text Hablanos to 66746; From Puerto Rico, text Hablanos to 1-787-339-2663 (en Español)

Healthcare Ready RxOpen is activated for Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. Use the map to find open pharmacies in areas impacted by the tornado outbreak. http://rxopen.org