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Displaying 15 of about 307 resultsGENEVA, 1 February 2012 - An insightful new report on the 2010 Haiti earthquake offers a scathing critique of an international community which “has much to learn from the response in Haiti where it has shown an ability to repeat its errors and shortcomings from past disasters.”
Two years after the event, the PAHO Report: Health response to the earthqua…
GENEVA, 25 January 2012 - Bequia is a delightful link in the chain of islands which make St. Vincent and the Grenadines such an attractive destination for sun worshipping tourists. With a population of 4,300 people and an area of just 18 km2, it is on the frontlines of the unfolding drama of climate change and Small Island Developing States. And, like m…
[...]Dengue fever is a climate-sensitive disease that is spread through the saliva of an infected female Aedes mosquito when it bites an uninfected person. Dengue fever presents with high fever, severe headache, flu-like symptoms, intense joint and muscle pain, and other flu-like symptoms. It is usually a mild disease that can be adequately treated with…
This study analyses international financial flows to nine countries for the 18 months after recent crises—drought, flood, cyclone, earthquake, and epidemic. It complements the Centre’s analysis of funding flows to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, exploring similarities and differences for funding flows for natural hazards. International funding of…
Evaluación desarrollada para apoyar el diseño de políticas, programas y acciones que permitan a la Ciudad de México sobrevivir, resistir, recuperarse y adaptarse y crecer ante riesgos, tensiones crónicas, impactos actuales y futuros. Se ha desarrollado esta publicación como insumo para brindar herramientas a otras áreas del gobierno de la Ciudad de Méxi…
Wastewater testing provides a relatively economic method whereby countries in Latin America and the Caribbean can improve their detection, diagnosis, control, and monitoring systems for viruses that cause diseases like COVID-19 and its variants. This tool, which complements clinical studies, allows public policy makers to have a comprehensive, sustainab…
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The workshop will explore factors affecting community and public health system resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic and other disasters. By participating you can inform future strategies for strengthening community resilience. The workshop is part of a research project fun…
JAMAICA – The Covid pandemic recovery provides a chance to implement green and sustainable economic and social policies, but it is far from certain that governments will seize the opportunity, a key international conference on disaster prevention was told.
Addressing the Vll Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction the in Americas and the Car…
KEY CONCEPTSMosquitoes thrive in warm, humid weather. Their bites can be a nuisance—and a health risk.Climate Central assessed mosquito weather trends from 1979 to 2022 in 242 U.S. locations. Over this period, 173 locations saw annual mosquito days increase—by 16 days on average.The Southeast and South experience the most annual mosquito days (over…
While COVID-19 ebbs -- and many of the pandemic-era policies on surveillance data and funding wind down with it -- the nation's public health leaders warned senators on Thursday that a return to "normal" should not mean forgetting the hard lessons learned over the last three years.When the federal government's public health emergency expires next week,…
New research reveals the economic costs of behavioral responses to the pandemic in the U.S.
Throughout its unsteady course, the COVID-19 pandemic has altered the behavior of businesses and households. Those behavioral changes, intensified by government actions like mandatory closures, have had a reverberating impact on the U.S. economy.
A new st…
This rapid expert consultation reviews research on disaster vulnerability, homelessness, the COVID-19 pandemic, and intersecting hazards and disasters. Reducing disaster vulnerability for people experiencing homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic requires adapting existing preparedness guidance to an evolving situation. It includes consider…
The COVID-19 pandemic has made evident the systemic nature of risk, and highlighted the exposure of different systems to multiple hazards, as its unprecedented cascading effects have impacted all sectors and levels of our economies and societies. The Global Assessment Report 2019 (GAR) and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction reflect the cer…
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This webinar will examine how local, state, and federal governments can improve their collaboration with community-based organizations by drawing on the experiences of NGOs in Sitka, Alaska, that were instrumental in addressing emergent challenges in the local community as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Representatives from local organizati…
Over the years the need has surfaced for a more Caribbean focused conference on all possible disaster hazards. This conference seeks to bring together government agencies, academic institutions, and private sector for information exchange, dialogue and development of methods and practice to reduce the harmful impacts of hazards and disasters in the Cari…