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 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.

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.

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 ICE (in case of emergency) campaign, which gained widespread coverage in the wake of the London bombings in July, encourages cell phone users to type the acronym ICE followed by an emergency contact name and phone number into the address book of their phones. This information can aid emergency responders in quickly notifying an individual's ICE contact should the need arise. The background and details of ICE can be found at this Web site.

The National Institues of Health's Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) recently announced the availability of a new online resource on disaster preparedness for animal research facilities. This web site, developed by the Laboratory Animal Management Association (LAMA) and supported in part by OLAW, contains information from LAMA's May 2002 meeting entitled, "Earth, Wind, and Fire: Avoiding Blood, Sweat and Tears," which brought together experts in disaster preparedness and response, as well as institutional representatives who have experienced natural disasters in research facilities.

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"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.

The goal of the National Bioterrorism Hospital Preparedness Program is to aid states and territories to improve the capacity of the health care system, including hospitals, emergency departments, outpatient facilities, EMS systems, and poison control centers, to respond to incidents requiring mass immunization, isolation, decontamination, diagnosis, and treatment, in the aftermath of terrorism or other public health emergencies.

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.

An influenza pandemic has a greater potential to cause rapid increases in death and illness than virtually any other natural health threat. Planning and preparedness before the next pandemic strikes – the inter-pandemic period – is critical for an effective response.

"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.

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.