Center for Refugee and Disaster Response, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Mission
The Center for Refugee and Disaster Response is an internationally recognized leader in building capacity to meet the physical and mental health needs of refugees and disaster victims worldwide.
- Education & Training - We train the leaders who help prepare for and respond to humanitarian crises.
- Research - We conduct research that provides the evidence needed to evaluate and enhance disaster preparedness and response.
- Partnerships - We partner with governments and international relief organizations to develop skills and systems to protect the health and lives of disaster victims in the U.S. and around the world.
1) Help train disaster response leadership
2) build capacity in nursing, medical and health care responder within the relief and development context
3) contribute via research to determine the best practices in DRR
4) strengthen and support local MoH
5) Contribute to Disaster Preparedness education in best practices
6) Reduce vulnerability to affected population
HELP course
International Health MPH, MSPH, PhD, DrPH, with focus on Refugee and Disaster
International Emergency medicine fellowship, Disaster medicine fellowship.
- Capacity building, training
- Knowledge and understanding in DRR
- Health Issues within disaster context
strengthen local government, especially MoH in preparing and responding to disaster/crisis.
assessment of needs
issue recommendations
evaluate performance
develop local educational institutions in public health, medicine, nursing
advocacy on behalf of vulnerable population group, refugees, IDPs, women, children, elderly.
assistance in determining DRR best practices, and dissemination of knowledge and understanding via formal training/education.
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Voluntary Commitments
The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.