They have a projects and a research division. The whole program primarily consists of MDs and PhDs. They seem to focus their problems on specific issues that affect a great portion of the population.
The event of a disaster as well as the confusion and stress of the aftermath and long term recovery and socioeconomic factors lead to a specific mental health disorder referred to as Chronic Disaster Syndrom.
Substance abuse post-disaster
Comorbidity of mental disorders
Post-disaster social support systems
This article has been cited in such places as:
"Depression in Japan: Psychiatric cures for a society in distress" - Book
"Societal and ethical issues in human biomonitoring–a view from science studies"
"Informality and survival in Ukraine's nuclear landscape: living with the risks of Chernobyl"
Sonja uses sociocultural studies of risk, organiaation theory, and disaster sociology. of which she cites 8 papers.
One of the ones I could find: https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=XaN-VkDFSWgC&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&…
About Bhopal and what we can learn from disaster reponse.
This book, “Medicine, Rationality and Experience” is an incredibly influential and widely-discussed and cited book.
There is no evidence that corpses cause or spread disease following a natural disaster. There would have to be more direct circumstances for potential damage from corpses.
The risk associated with epidemics is correlated to the population displaced and affected by infrastructure.
The most commun post-natural disaster diseases are related to water contamination and crowding. While corpses could potential contaminate water, because the population is displaced the corpses likely won't contaminate the new water source, but the overcrowded displaced population will. Some of such disease include Hepatitis A and E, Leptospirosis, and measles. Meninginitis and Acute Respiratory Infections can also develop if vaccinations are not prevelant there.
Conflict in the DRC
MSF's response to sex crimes
Hamanitarian organisations more slated towards sexual crimes
The organization is so large and diverse in its portfolio of accomplishments that it is hard to pinpoint through their research precisely how they approach disasters. However, their overall message is that they help where help is needed most and supply quality medical care for the people there. They seem to have a wholistic approach wherein they supply all care post-disaster instead of focusing on the immediate effects of the disaster.
They have incrediable amounts of research over the course of their history. Within the last year, they published a paper on the care for victims of sexual violence. This article address how they have been handling sexual violence over the past decade as well as the pressure it puts on the orgnaization and its need to continue its aid.