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Disaster Experts Available In Wake of Haiti Earthquake

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Several researchers and other experts affiliated with the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine who specialize in managing emergency operations and responding to medical and infrastructure needs when disasters strike are available to answer questions from officials leading relief and recovery efforts in Haiti. In particular, experts from the Disasters Roundtable, the Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events, and the Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment  may be able to provide useful information to those responding to the disaster in Haiti. [more]