This site contains links to Disaster web-sites of interest.

EMCOMM is a web site dedicated to emergency communications personnel, both professional and volunteer. It contains links to other sites, an electronic newsletter, and information about upcoming events and training.

The site should be especially useful for potential employees in the bioterrorism field who might not be aware of issues and events that have greatly transformed American priorities and funding since the devastating attack of September 11, 2001.

A free service to help you find health sciences information quickly and easily.

"Messages in the Dust: What Are the Lessons of the Environmental Health Response to the Terrorist Attacks of September 11?" published by the National Environmental Health Association is available in html format on-line.

This site is a resource for everyone involved in the preparation for or response to Health emergencies in New Zealand. The National Health Emergency Plan brings together a collection of national plans and projects and aims to improve the awareness and capability of the sector, clarify roles and responsibilities, encourage consistency and interoperability, and generally assist in effective response emergencies.

PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.

The University of Texas Health Science Centre at Houston is the most comprehensive academic health centre in Texas offering education, research and patient care in biomedical, behavioural and social sciences.

This web site, maintained by the Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC, houses an extensive amount of information on hazards, hospitals, mass casualty response, and more, with the goal of creating an interactive information clearinghouse.

The Federal interagency community has developed 15 all-hazards planning scenarios (the National Planning Scenarios or Scenarios) for use in national, Federal, State, and local homeland security preparedness activities.

"Risk Management for Small Business" is a new on-line publication from the Public Enterprise Risk Institute (PERI) that focuses on helping small businesses identify and analyze risk.

This guidebook is a tool to help state and local public health departments write all-hazards disaster plans. The guidebook was developed by the University of California at Los Angeles Center for Public Health and Disasters and funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. All users must register online to download the document.

This handbook, available in PDF format, is produced by the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute for their Medical Effects of Ionising Radiation Course.

This handbook was developed for the Assistant Secretary for Public Health Emergency Preparedness of the Department of Health and Human Services. The handbook describes a methodology for managing health and medical response to events resulting in large numbers of patients (surge capacity) and/or victims with unusual or highly specialised medical needs (surge capability). It also spotlights the role of management systems in developing and maintaining preparedness programs.

A website dedicated to the convergence of business continuity, emergency management and security.