07/02/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action. Published: 7/2/2019. This 37-page report examines the main elements of child abuse, neglect, exploitation, and violence in ways that recognize the overlap and highlight the distinctions between each type of maltreatment. It discusses how a child’s vulnerability to maltreatment in general, and to specific types of maltreatment, depends on the existence and interplay of factors that include health, economic, educational, and social policies that maintain economic, gender, or social inequalities; and social fragility owing to conflict, post-conflict, or natural disaster. (PDF)
07/02/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action. Published: 7/2/2019. This 27-page desk review represents the first step in a larger process to develop an overarching definition of child wellbeing that can be adapted according to context and used to define strategic objectives within humanitarian response. It was conducted to synthesize existing definitions of child wellbeing from the academic, international development, and humanitarian fields; and identify the key factors or domains of child wellbeing that should be considered in a humanitarian setting. (PDF)
07/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). Published: 7/2019. Incorporating psychological preparedness into existing disaster preparedness policies and practices has the potential to help individuals cope with the psychological distress experienced during or after a disaster, and to foster long-term resilience. This 43-page paper details how the incorporation of aspects of psychological preparedness into disaster preparedness measures will strengthen disaster management practices overall. (PDF)
06/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Published: 6/2019. This 35-page paper provides a broad overview of how the Department of Defense (DOD) contributes to overall U.S. health security through programs specifically aimed at countering biological threats from all sources. It details DOD's health security activities and capabilities, and offers select concrete recommendations for strengthening the coherence and integration of DOD activities, with a special emphasis on leadership, novel diseases and new dangerous forms of resistance, surveillance, building host country capacities, and expanded exercises. (PDF)
06/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action. Published: 6/2019. This 59-page report provides findings and analysis on the use of the Child Protection Rapid Assessment (CPRA) Toolkit between 2014 and 2018. It includes recommendations for improving the CPRA Toolkit, and more effectively situating it within the broader framework of child protection analysis and assessment in humanitarian contexts. The humanitarian contexts varied from country to country and included countries experiencing complex emergencies such as natural disasters and epidemics. (PDF)
06/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). Published: 6/2019. This 35-page paper highlights the necessity to consider scenarios of human vulnerability for risk-informed decision-making, illustrated in terms of heat stress risks in cities due to urbanization and climate change. It presents selected scenario approaches, including for disasters, and illustrates preliminary findings on what such vulnerability scenarios can look like for specific indicators and how they can inform decision making. (PDF)
05/21/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics, Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units (PEHSU). Published: 5/21/2019. This one-hour webinar on the public health response to wildfire smoke is part of an ongoing series of education presentations by experts on issues that focus on current and emerging aspects of pediatric and reproductive environmental health. It discusses one state health department's approach to wildfire smoke response; describes risk communication for wildfire smoke response and challenges of competing risks; and evaluates a risk assessment approach to provide health justification to public decisions. (Video or Multimedia)
05/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Homeland Security Research Center (NHSRC). Published: 5/2019. This 119-page report focuses on relative exposures and hazards for different livestock carcass management options in the event of a radiological emergency. Exposure estimates were performed in this report to rank the various livestock carcass management options relative to one another for a hypothetical site and mortality scenario from a potential radiological attack or radiological contamination emergencies. (PDF)
04/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Indian Health Board (NIHB). Published: 4/1/2019. This 50-minute webinar describes the basics of climate change: what it is and how it impacts human health, and provides several reasons why Tribes are often more greatly impacted by climate change. It discusses how Tribal communities have been impacted by climate change, and provides a brief overview of the National Indian Health Board's Climate Ready Tribes Project, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (Video or Multimedia)
04/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness (GloPID-R). Published: 4/2019. This 63-page report articulates how global health funders, multilateral agencies, governments, public health institutes, and universities can improve global, regional, and national level epidemic preparedness and response systems through a concerted strategy of investment in social science capacity, infrastructure, tools, and durable systems. It analyzes the contemporary knowledge, infrastructure, and funding gaps that hinder the full potential of social sciences in epidemic response, and presents a roadmap for addressing them. (PDF)
01/01/2019 12:00 AM EST
Source: University of Maryland, National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START). Published: 1/2019. This 2.75-hour self-paced course is designed for U.S.-based learners to provide community-focused, rigorously researched, and academically-informed instruction on countering violent extremism (CVE). This FEMA-certified course is intended to provide instruction on how educators and mental health professionals may collaboratively address the multi-dimensional needs of individuals and communities contending with violent extremism. Learners will be able to identify areas of actual and potential synergy between the field of CVE and the fields of mental health and education. (Video or Multimedia)
10/01/2018 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 10/2018. The purpose of this 54-page guidance document is to specify the processes and procedures followed by team members conducting Joint External Evaluations (JEEs) of the implementation of International Health Regulations (IHR) (2005) capacities. It describes roles and responsibilities, and outlines the JEE process, including pre-evaluation activities; evaluation structure; post-evaluation activities; and production of the final report. (PDF)
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