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The authors received no special funding for this article.

I found it cited in Documenting attacks on health workers and facilities in armed conflicts, otherwise no where else.

This was published by the International Atomic Energy Agency and is published as a part of the Radiological Assessment Reports Series.

They analyzed reports, policies, and the history of health response systems in order to come to their conclusions.

Based off the references, it is clear that a very extensive amount of research was done with well over ~70 references. Based off the bibliography, a lot of data was collected from articles and reports on nuclear safety efforts. Also many of the references analyzed historical events and past nuclear disasters and emergency response regulations. The bibliography, which includes some of her other works shows she is an expert in the field and cited other experts as well. 

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. 

Investigation after large-scale national tragedy is often contaminated with the many factors that surround that event. Since the attack on the World Trade Center was so deeply rooted in politics, culture, international relations and emotional connections, the investigation following the attacks failed to result in a dispassionate, scientific verdict. Instead, it became muddled in the many conflicting and intertwining interests that came with the attack. 

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

According to the Center, due to a compelx system of policies and practices an epidemic of incarceration has occured that has impacted a large population of the United States, particulary those who struggled with addiction, substance abuse, or mental illness. The public health system, especially in relation to prison, has failed to address these issues properly over the past decades. Due to these systemic issues and their symptoms growing in impact and importance, the Center was created. (They didn't go into specific events or even specific issues, general policy and health problems.)