Children's National Health System

Non Governmental Organizations

Mission

Serving the United States' children for more than 140 years, Children's National Health System is the premier provider of pediatric care in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area. Children' National is home to the Children's Research Institute and the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation, and is consistently ranked among the top pediatric hospitals by U.S. News & World Report and the Leapfrog Group. Children's National is recognized by the American Nurses Credentialing Center as a Magnet® designated hospital, the highest level of recognition for nursing excellence that a medical center can achieve.

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Themes

Hazards

Country and region

Content type

Publication year

Publication

8 July 2014

Position paper: International symposium on disaster management and public health - Review of the Hyogo Framework for Action

This position paper provides some inputs to a symposium aimed at identifying the current gaps and proposals from the view-point of health professionals and to make formatted consultative themes to the successor to the Hyogo Framework for Action (H

Meetings and conferences

In person

21 May 2014 - 22 May 2014

Washington D.C.

International symposium on disaster management and public health: review of the Hyogo Framework for Action

This symposium has been developed to research and provide urgent medical and public health related inputs for the "Post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction" which will be discussed in the 3rd World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction Send

Voluntary Commitments

The organization has no registered 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.

Contact information

http://www.childrensnational.org/

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