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joerene.avilesThe report is an NGO report; MSF has a page for its reports on its website.
The report is an NGO report; MSF has a page for its reports on its website.
Actors reffered to:
Firefights:
Thomas Von Essen was the city's fire commissioner.
Battalion Chief Joseph Pfeifer was the first fire chief to begin operations on 9/11. He sent companies into the towers but found he was unable to properly communicate with them.
Deputy Assistant Chief Albert J. Turi was one of the firefighters in the towers that day who was unable to send and receive communications.
Assistant Chief Joseph Callan was in the north tower and ordered an evacuation order after felling the floor shifting. His order was largely unheard.
Assistant Chief Donald J. Burns was at both the 1993 bombings as well as the 9/11 attacks on the towers. On 9/11 he died leading operations in tower 2.
Mr. Modica, a firefighter, could not reach a friend who was a few floors above him with his radio equipment over any of the channels.
Mr. Campagna, a Firefighter, remembers getting out just before his tower fell.
Police:
Police Commissioner (at time of article’s writting) Kelly stated that there was no link between the various first response agencies on the day.
Bernard B. Kerik was the police commissioner on the day of the attack. He claimed that he was unaware of any communication issues during the incident.
Sergeant Moscola was a police officer.
Government:
Rudolph W. Giuliani was the mayor of NYC.
Richard J. Sheirer was the former director of the city's Office of Emergency Management and a fire dispatcher when speaking of the first responder’s communication equipment he said: “We're dinosaurs”.
Naval War College helped do and self-examination of the fire department’s command and control after the disaster.
James Ellson was a former deputy in the city's Office of Emergency Management
Civilians:
Ms. Frederick was a civilian who barely got clear of the towers in time. She credits a firefighter for saving her life saying: “He stayed there because there were more people behind us''.
David Rosensweig was the president of the fire alarm dispatchers' union.
Sharon Premoli was an executive vice president of Beast Financial Systems.
News coverage mostly is focused on how its the first college of its kind to offer degrees specifically tailored to homeland security and emergency preparedness, and one article highlighted some of the first to graduate with a minor from the college.
http://www.lohud.com/story/news/education/2016/05/15/homeland-security-…
This article relates to public health as the conditions of the island prison are a health concern of themselves and other conditions exacerbate existing health issues of inmates there. It also addresses the issues with healthcare, housing, and financial stability after release from the system.
With this data, health care professionals can expect that former inmates would be more likely to have certain diseases (tuberculosis, HIV, hepatitis C) and mental illness (drug dependence/ abuse, PTSD, anxiety), and likely didn't get treated while in prison.
Community leaders and professionals across various countries and communities to prepare them to lead their communities during disaster management.
1) Gender violence against humanitarian workers.
2) Gender violence that exists within the humanitarian organizations themselves.
3) How gender violence is interpreted and perceived by different cultures.
The author is Adriana Petryna, who is an anthropologist and Professor of Anthropology at University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on the "public and private forms of scientific knowledge production, as well as on the role of science and technology in public policy". Her work doesn't specifically focus on emergency response, but more on the political and scientific developments that occur in a country after a disaster.
The platforms provides online video sessions with healthcare professionals as well as quick assessments that can be taken anytime, anywhere as well as sensors that can be worn. These assessments are tracked (privately) and turned into graphical data that can be easily analyzed by both the patient and the provider.
Three quotes that support this are
“Numerous case studies have document that meaningfully engaging lay communities in decisions traditionally made by scientific and technical elites can enable greater vigilance and raise confidence about individual emergency prepardeness.” (Schmid 196)
“So far, the nuclear industry has almost exclusively focused on accident prevention.” … “nuclear emergency preparedness and response has hardly gained traction.” (Schmid 200)
“They created an organization, Spetsatom” … “and with defining generalizable strategies about how to respond to a possible future nuclear emergency” (Schmid 200)