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It was partialy funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health.

This program receives its money from taxpayers in the State of New York. The College was allocated $15 million dollars for its formation by Governor Cuomo, and has been incorporated into SUNY Albany.

The bibliography shows that many of the resources were papers on mental health issues like PTSD, as well as mental health after specific disasters. From this information, the authors were likely able to find comparisions between mental health trends after disasters, and then how those compare to PTSD trends.

This report includes a glossary, a summary of the report and situation in Colombia, recommendations from HRW which address education, health needs, and the ability to return home, a section discussing the internal displacement in Colombia, registration and humanitarian assistance, a section discussing access to education, and a section which discusses access to public health services. The report concludes with a list of acknowledgements and a listing of other HRW reports on Colombia.

This article has been cited in a few other publications, mostly regarding other aspects of Chernobyl and medicine.

The author looked at trends in medical journals and other publications - seeing how they treated stories compared to data. He also used his own experience with stories in medicine and the experiences of a friend of his, Dr. Bech.

"The purpose of this essay is to discuss a truly formidable task, the creation of an international nuclear emergency response team"

This quote sets up the rest of the article by showing the reader, regardless of their background or knowledge, that the creation of such a team is going to be difficult.  Beyond the standard challenge of creating a unified emergency response team, it is an international one - therefore with language barriers, geographical differences, and large distances to travel in the case of an emergency. And futhermore, it is a team created to deal with the incertainty of nuclear materials in an emergency situation - even more of a challenge.