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I hope to be involved in projects that aim to gather scientific evidence to inform environmental decision making and advocate for greater equity and justice in environmental governance. Through this work, I hope to learn the skills needed to engage in community based research and leverage community knowledge as expert knowledge. In my department, things are often siloed and issues are only seen through one perspective. I really want to gain more experience in collaborating with a wide array of stakeholders to come up with approaches to mitigate the environmental injustices experienced in under-resourced communities.

Though this is a very new area of study and expertise, Columbia University is very highly regarded. The public and other institutions respect this program and school alike. It shows much promise and innovation in the medical and healthcare fields. 

Many studies used as references for this article have to do with the biosocial aspects of diseases. Many of the articles trace the spread of disease in different populations and analyze the population's demographics.  Health care utilization and social aspects are all themes that are seen in most of the references in this study. There are also many epidemiological studies. The dates of studies date back as early as the 80s and as recent as the year the article was written in 2006. This shows an extensive and thorough amount of research. The articles are also taken from reputable sources and journals and written by experts as well, showing a great deal of care and effort gone into research aspects of this article. 

According to Wiley Online Library, this article has been cited by 5 other works, all related in terms of humanitarianism or sexual violence. The articles it has been cited in can be seen here: 

1.  Laura Jordan Jaffee, Disrupting global disability frameworks: settler-colonialism and the geopolitics of disability in Palestine/Israel, Disability & Society, 2016, 31, 1, 116CrossRef
2. JULIA KOWALSKI, Ordering dependence: Care, disorder, and kinship ideology in North Indian antiviolence counseling, American Ethnologist, 2016, 43, 1, 63Wiley Online Library
3. Rosanne Marrit Anholt, Understanding sexual violence in armed conflict: cutting ourselves with Occam’s razor, Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 2016, 1, 1CrossRef
4. Zoë H. Wool, Critical military studies, queer theory, and the possibilities of critique: the case of suicide and family caregiving in the US military, Critical Military Studies, 2015, 1, 1, 23CrossRef
5. Miriam Ticktin, Transnational Humanitarianism, Annual Review of Anthropology, 2014, 43, 1, 273

Emergency response was completely lacking in man power and containment efforts. There wasn't much structure to the efforts taken by emergency response in terms of containment and education of the public. There were far too many of those in need and way too few emergency response teams. Hospitals closed due to lack of personnel as well as doctors getting infected themselves. People were dying left and right and being left on the side of the street. Responders weren't able to get to people in time in some cases. Locals began to take out aggressions and frustrations on emergency responders, despite them working at full capacity. The lack of man power, communication and education lead to the emergency response being sub par in this situation. 

Emergency response isn’t directly addressed in this article. Yet, conditions and forms of violence that are discussed in the article that emergency responders have been documented with facing, clearly effect the way they work and respond to calls. Though emergency response isn’t directly addressed, this article is very relevant to emergency responders since its implications can highly effect the work of EMS and other medical care providers.