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Risk Management Plan (RMP) facilities

A series of visualizations of the concept of "fast disasters."

California Desert Communities: Community Science in the Salton Sea

This is a collection of community science in the Salton Sea in California Desert Communities.

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How was development of the system funded?

The app was developed in partnership with Omidyar Network, Cisco, Ford Foundation, Google.org, Humanity United, MacArthur Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Knight Foundation, and the USAID (from the american people).

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Epidemics after Natural Disasters

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What were the methods, tools and/or data used to produce the claims or arguments made in the article or report?

It appeared to be mostly a compilation-based study, amassing and comparing previously completed research to reach the conclusion and build the argument in the paper. Primarily, the author cited outside sources for all of the “heavy-lifting” science, and was primarily drawing the over-arching conclusion about the relationship between natural disasters and epidemics.

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Epidemiology of Respiratory Health Outcomes among World Trade Center Disaster Workers: Review of the Literature 10 Years after the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks

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Where is this study published? Give a brief description of the journal, including what types of studies and topics they usually publish and how the publication is regarded among health professionals.

This study is published in Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness (DMPHP). DMPHP is a journal that is focused on emphasizing public health preparedness and disaster response for all health care and public health professionals globally. Using scientific information that they've gathered, they make it accessible and understandable from medical and public health perspectives. As per the title they study many emergency situations such as 9/11, H1N1, and Katrina.

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Doctors without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières)

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What events (internal and external) or data have had a significant impact on the evolution of the organization?

The organization was founded because of the experience of volunteer Red Cross doctors. These doctors wanted to tell others what they had seen and to help bring more aid to those that are suffering.

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Compassion Protocol: Legalizing Diseased Undocumented Immigrants

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What are the main findings or arguments presented in the article?

The chapter Compassion Protocol in Humanitarian Reason focuses on the change in the French culture in reference to their policy on Immigration Health, and what that might mean in terms of legislature reform. The article discusses an overall change to an overall more compassionate take on the laws.

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Lessons in the Rubble: The World Trade Center and the History of Disaster Investigations in the United States

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What is the central argument or narrative of the film?

The central narrative of the film is the many complications, setbacks, and incrediable challenges that the first responders of 9/11 faced when attempting to medically aid the many victims of the disaster.

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Biological Citizenship: The Science and Politics of Chernobyl-Exposed Populations

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Who are the authors, where do they work, and what are their areas of expertise? How is the author professionally situated in respect to emergency response? Note any other publications/research foci that are of relevance to the DSTS Network.

Professor Adriana Petryna teaches Anthropology at UPenn. She focuses on science and technology, globalization and health, and medical anthropology. Her focuses are intertwined with DSTS Network at times, studying incidents of interest such as this article on Chernobyl, and at other times focuses on systemic health issues in socities.

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Lessons in the Rubble: The World Trade Center and the History of Disaster Investigations in the United States

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Where has this article or report been referenced or discussed?

It has been cited 5 times, in three papers (The World Trade Center Analyses: Case Study of Ethics, Public Policy and the Engineering Profession; Engineering Risk and Disaster: Disaster-STS and the American History of technology; Making Sense of Disaster) and two books (Expanding the Criminological Imagination: Critical Readings in Crimonology; The Martians Have Landed!: A history of Media-Driven Panics and Hoaxes).