Welcome to the AusDIN portal- a multi-agency initiative to establish a national emergency management knowledge and information network to serve the Australian Community

The Emergency Preparedness Office is responsible for ensuring that the Department of Health Services (DHS) is prepared to respond to disasters and for coordinating DHS disaster response activities.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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 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.