I am currently in the process of transitioning my M.A. level course on Science, Technology, and Development with 11 students to virtual instruction. One of my interests in engaging with COVID-19 is to examine how it (should) informs development ideologies and practices. How should students of development studies retool -- conceptually, methodologically, practically -- in wake of the pandemic?
If health workers are targeted more often, and when
Hospital workers and violence
EMS protocols for combative patients
The two authors reference it in their book, Biosecurity Interventions: Global Health and Security in Question. Otherwise I couldn't find anything.
This policy is drafted by United State Environmental Protection Agency. And their mission is to protect human health and the environment via the development and enforcement with regulations.
The report is provided with both English and Japanese for the technical professionals to study. For the general publics, this report summary (fact sheet) has provided in six major languages to assist them to gained a broad understanding to the works.
-The “disaster investigation,” far from proving itself the dispassionate, scientific verdict on causality and blame, actually emerges as a hard-fought contest to define the moment in politics and society, in technology and culture.
-Investigators had no power to protest the decision. In fact, their initial request to inspect the steel had been lost in the confusion by city officials still pressed with the responsibility of looking for bodies.
-Clashes over authority among powerful institutions both public and private, competition among rival experts for influence, inquiry into a disaster elevated to the status of a memorial for the dead: these are the base elements of the World Trade Center investigation. And yet, give a brief historical review shows us these elements are not unique.
Since the system itself is open sourced, there are code libraries to enhance the work piece and modelling it.
“The stack”
Back-end: Linux, PHP, Apache/Nginx, MySQL or PostgreSQL
Front-end: AngularJS, Javascript, Html, CSS. Built with NodeJS and Browserify. Using Leaflet for mapping, and a collection of other frontend libraries”
I cannot find a precise statement, but it appears that they are grant/unviersity funded research.
Due to the trust crisis between the groups, public health cannot be improved via the service from the medical centers. General publics are refused to get into contacts with aid workers.
As appeared, all from UCSF:
Vincanne Adams, PhD of Anthropology and fromer directer and vice chair of Medical Anthropology. She is within the department of Anthro, Hsitory, and Social Medicine. This is incrediable relevant to disasters and disaster response. She includes in her interested Global Health and Disaster Recovery as well.
Taslim van hattum, Director of Behavioral Health Integration at Louisiana Public Health Institute, with a background in Maternal and Child Health. Relative to this article and to disasters in general mental health is incrediable important, and children are much more at risk during a disaster than adults are.
Diana English, for some reason I couldn't find anything on her.