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This image reminds me of how mutual aid and communities keep each other fed, and safe, and how local practices are actually best practices. My own research， although not immediatley related to the specific public health concern of COVID, will focus on Indigenous food soverignty, particularly the right and autonomy to ferment and distribute alcohol (紅糯米酒) within the Amis community, and their current fight with the local health department on declaring whether or not their alcohol is "safe" for public consumption and distribution.

 “safety sometimes gets pitted against profitability”

“Consequently, we see a trend where mitigating the consequences of a nuclear disaster is also increasingly being regarded as an international task.”

“We need to create a credible organization-one that combines the legitimacy of the United Nations agency and the executive vigor of an industry group.”

The arguments in the article are primarily supported by analysis of narratives given by patients who participated in an interview. 

This study looks at subjects who lived in Fukushima at the time of the nuclear disaster. Specifically those who were under the age of 20 in 2015.

This article does not directly address emergency response. but emergency responders should be aware of gender violence crimes. 

This article addresses public health in that Haitians do not have access to the healthcare they need due to the current state of their government. 

While, I can not find any specific events that have motivated their thinking about disaster and health, I believe this organization is motivated by the idea that people should be provided the health care they need despite their social or economic status. 

"Anna Pou, defended herself on national television, saying her role was to “help” patients “through their pain,” a position she maintains today"

"The laws also encourage prosecutors to await the findings of a medical panel before deciding whether to prosecute medical professionals. Pou has also been advising state and national medical organizations on disaster preparedness and legal reform; she has lectured on medicine and ethics at national conferences and addressed military medical trainees"

The Red Cross was started during the Civil War to provide care to wounded soldiers.