The Epidemiology of Natural & Man-made Disasters

Summer 2005



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Several recent natural and man-made disasters have gained public attention due to their large financial and human burden. This burden is predicted to rise in the future with greater climate variability dire to global climate change, greater urbanization, and changes in the socio-political spectrum. This course provides an introduction to disasters and their understanding from an epidemiologic perspective. It describes and discusses the major categories of disasters, weather, geologic, and man-made (including bioterrorism). The course content covers the current debates regarding the measurement of disasters and their surveillance. It reviews the short-term and long-term adverse events related to disasters and their measurement. It also discusses existing mitigation strategies that are used to reduce the impact of disasters when they strike.

 

Latest Lecture -- Introduction to Disaster Epidemiology

 

Exercise -- Lecture Exercise 1

This page was last modified on 6 July 2005

For further information about the course, please contact Thomas Songer at tjs+@pitt.edu

Thomas Songer, PhD, Dept. of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA