Category Archives: Research Links
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness
While we’re on the topic of open-source public health items, this special supplement to the AMA’s journal “Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness” (June 2009, Vol. 3) is freely available online. Article topics range from public policy (“National Strategy for … Continue reading
Swine Flu Resources Round-up
It’s been interesting to watch publishers open up their H1N1 articles and resources to the general public. (Disclaimer: I know that part is only interesting to me as a librarian. But the question remains: Is the future of publishing a … Continue reading
Virginia Emergency Operations Plans link
From the VDEM newsletter: Gov. Tim Kaine has approved the Commonwealth of Virginia Emergency Operations Plan Pandemic Influenza Incident Annex VI, now available at http://www.vaemergency.com/library/plans/index.cfm. The annex represents nearly two years of collaboration with many state agencies and provides guidance … Continue reading
CABI Global Health database now freely available
Too busy today to do more than post this: News release Free access to world-renowned public health database to assist swine-flu effort 1 May 2009 CABI today has announced free access to its specialist Global Health database – the definitive … Continue reading
Swine Flu meta-pages
Between last year’s energy crisis, the bad economic news and the Tri-Delts walking into the library in their hippy-chick summer dresses, it’s like we’re back to the 70′s. And now, swine flu… Dr. Joe Bresee, CDC Influenza Division Several librarians have … Continue reading
Fargo Flood Homepage
We’ll stay with the flood theme for a bit, and look at the “Fargo Flood Homepage (Red River)“, a link page developed by North Dakota State University. In addition to a graphic representation of the flood’s current stage, there are … Continue reading
PandemicFlu.gov
Pandemic flu hasn’t made the news much this winter (although the stock market seems to have caught a bad case of something), but the CDC has collected everything you might ever be interested in on the topic, and put it … Continue reading
Australia Wildfires
Every hour yesterday, it seemed, the top of the hour news brought an increase in the number of deaths caused by these fires; right now the count is 181, and is expected to climb. The image above is courtesy of … Continue reading
Alaskan Volcano Watch
I have a six-year old son who is more than interested in any type of weather event – we use the term “obsessed”, and we don’t use it lightly. Second only to tornadoes in his world are volcanoes, and he … Continue reading
Great American Shakeout Follow-up
I’d almost forgotten about the Great Southern California Shakeout (the earthquake drill that happened November 13, 2008) until the USGS very helpfully sent me a link to the “Corecast” for the “Lessons Learned” from the largest-ever earthquake scenario exercise. (Download … Continue reading