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I am currently in the process of transitioning my M.A. level course on Science, Technology, and Development with 11 students to virtual instruction. One of my interests in engaging with COVID-19 is to examine how it (should) informs development ideologies and practices. How should students of development studies retool -- conceptually, methodologically, practically -- in wake of the pandemic?

"Front Line" emergency response is not directly discussed in this article, however long term public health response in a broader sense is referenced extensively, and how the new dependant populations were dealt with was one of the major points of analisys of this article.

This policy applies internationally, to 119 states who were subject to it after the entry to force date. 69 states signed the convention at the IAEA special meeting in 1986.

No bibliography for this article was provided or readily available on the internet. Based on the article and Dr. Good's works, it is likely that much of the information for the article was drawn from new research.

Some additional points to research to forward understanding of emergency response would be:

-Structural Violance

-Societal factors influencing public health

-nationalized health insurance.

According to Google Scholar, this article has been cited 22 times in various works, with topics mainly focusing on the effects of humanitarian aid and social welfare on groups that are considered to be in the gender based minority, including women and the LBGTQ community.

I feel that this film would be best suited for a general public, non-scholarly, audiance. While it provides great, compelling, emotional stories of first hand accounts of ebola, it does not look at the disaster from an objective, scholarly, perspective. 

This policy aims to provide a measure of safety and comfort for Ohio EMS providers and firefighters who have to deal with the implications of major cutbacks in law enforcement funding. 

This article examines how disaster investigations in the United States have evolved over time, from the burining of the capitol building near the birth of the republic through the theater fires and boiler explosions of industrialization to the collapse of the world trade centers at the present, showing how the modern, bureaucratic system of disaster investigation was built.