12/16/2019 12:00 AM EST
Source: Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action. Published: 12/16/2019. This 46-minute webinar features a conversation between practitioners from UNICEF and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and researchers from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Columbia University on the interaction between natural disasters and violence against children. It discusses innovative programming in the Asia/Pacific region to prevent sexual and gender-based violence during natural disasters, and discusses areas of development for knowledge and programming. (Video or Multimedia)
12/01/2019 12:00 AM EST
Source: Trust for America's Health. Published: 12/2019. This two-page fact sheet explains why rising levels of resistance to antimicrobials is a serious threat to public health, food safety, and global security, and lists key findings about antimicrobial resistance. It also makes four recommendations for policymakers in healthcare, public health, agriculture, academia, and industry. (PDF)
11/19/2019 12:00 AM EST
Source: Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action. Published: 11/19/2019. With a focus on on climate change preparedness and community-based protection, this one-hour, 42-minute webinar discusses how protection concerns can be better included in preparedness work and in slow-onset disasters to avoid protection gaps and include marginalized communities. Speakers discuss what the role of the Protection Cluster is in this, and if structural changes for coordination and communication are called for, especially as Protection Clusters are normally not activated for preparedness work. (Video or Multimedia)
11/07/2019 12:00 AM EST
Source: World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM). Published: 11/7/2019. Through his experience as a physician providing medical support for law enforcement, the speaker in this one-hour, four-minute webinar discusses how he learned first-hand about the symptoms of acute stress, and how this normal response after a traumatic event differs from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This presentation aims to help prepare willing responders to be better informed and able to do the job they are called upon to do, during and after a traumatic event. (Video or Multimedia)
07/25/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM). Published: 7/25/2019. This 42-minute webinar discusses the history of disaster nursing in Japan, and global and trans-disciplinary teamwork from lessons learned in Japan. It provides information about the Disaster Nursing Global Leadership Programme, Gensai Care, and EpiNurse Project, which all represent some of the good practices from disaster nursing that have contributed to the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and sustainable human security. (Video or Multimedia)
06/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] (CDC NIOSH). Published: 6/2019. This 32-page health hazard evaluation report was written in response to a request by management at a federal forest management agency, which was concerned about wildland fire fighters’ exposures to asbestos during prescribed burns near a former vermiculite mine. Key findings include: exposures to total fibers in air were less than the lowest occupational exposure limit, decontamination line procedures could be improved, and the respiratory protection program could be strengthened. (PDF)
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