Thursday, September 8, 2011

Right Now: The Science of Preparedness, Response and Recovery

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Profiles of the panelists:


Dr. Neil Boothby’s online course “Protection of Children in Disaster and War” has provocative, challenging readings and video guest lectures http://childprotection.wikischolars.columbia.edu/Home

Dr. David Abramson’s research team provided the earliest take on how the Deepwater Horizon oil spill was affecting the children of the Gulf Coast  http://www.ncdp.mailman.columbia.edu/files/NCDP_Oil_Impact_Report.pdf

Dr. David Abramson addressed a June 2010 Institute of Medicine workshop on the human health impacts of the oil spill, on strategies for communicating risk

A reviewer called Dr. Lori Peek’s recent book Behind the Backlash: Muslim Americans After 9/11, “a compelling, perceptive, and sensitively drawn portrayal of what happened to Muslim Americans…when the dark shadow known as 9/11 passed over our land.”

Dr. Peek is co-director of the Center for Disaster and Risk Analysis at Colorado State University

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