Disaster Lit® Database Daily Updates

Disaster Lit® Database Daily Updates

Flu Season: U.S. Public Health Preparedness and Response

12/04/2019 12:00 AM EST

Source: U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce. Published: 12/4/2019. This one-hour, 51-minute Congressional hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations examines the federal government’s efforts and forecast for the 2019–2020 influenza season and ongoing influenza-related research and innovation. Speakers discuss why the flu vaccine is more effective for some people, how someone’s health status may affect the body’s immune response, and recent efforts at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study these issues, with the goal of producing a universal flu vaccine that is effective against a broader range of flu strains. (Video or Multimedia)

Including Everyone: Strengthening the Collection and Use of Data About Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Situations

12/01/2019 12:00 AM EST

Source: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Published: 12/2019. This 32-page publication presents four humanitarian case studies: the 2015 Nepal earthquake, the ongoing humanitarian response in Somalia, the Rohingya refugee operation in Bangladesh, and the European migrant and refugee crisis. Each example provides perspectives on the importance of disability-disaggregated data in shaping humanitarian actors’ planning and implementation processes. It also briefly documents progress in policies and guidelines related to disability data in the humanitarian sector, and reviews the existing tools and mechanisms for gathering data on persons with disabilities. (PDF)

Gender in Displacement: The State of Play

12/01/2019 12:00 AM EST

Source: Overseas Development Institute (ODI). Published: 12/2019. This 43-page paper interweaves two streams of thought: how gender roles change in the course of crises, particularly displacement, and how gender has been integrated (or not) into humanitarian programming. It explores existing knowledge on the impact of displacement on gender roles, norms, and power dynamics, and details the international humanitarian system’s efforts to incorporate gender into its policy and practice, before investigating the deliberate and inadvertent effects of humanitarian action on gender roles among populations in crisis. (PDF)