reducing the risk of environmental disasters for a healthy pacific
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Reducing the Risk of Environmental Disasters for a Healthy Pacific. Mark Keim, MD Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Pacific islanders carry the highest environmental disaster burden in the entire world. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Mark Keim, MDCenters for Disease Control
and Prevention
Pacific islanders carry the highest environmental disaster
burden in the entire world
Environmental emergencies are becoming more frequent among all developing nations of the world 1
1 Noji, The Public Health Consequences of
Disasters
First Pacific Health Summit for Sustainable Disaster Risk Management
Summit I – 2004Attended by 16 Health
Ministers of the Pacific basin
Developed the world’s first coordinated regional strategy for management of public health emergencies over the next decade
Invited to present in plenary session of the Second World Congress for Disaster Reduction in Kobe, Japan
First Pacific Health Summit for Sustainable Disaster Risk Management
Produced a regional declaration for risk management that named 32 objectives related to:PreparednessMitigationResponse Recovery
First Pacific Health Summit for Sustainable Disaster Risk Management
CDC presented the Declaration of the 2004 Pacific Health Summit at the Second World Congress for Disaster Reduction in Hyogo, Japan in January 2005
2nd Pacific Health Summit for Sustainable Disaster Risk Management
Summit II – 2005 Attended by 19 Health
Ministers and the world donor and NGO community
Operationalized the objectives of Summit I into 16 international project proposals
2nd Pacific Health Summit for Sustainable Disaster ManagementSixteen project
concept papers were published in the peer review literature
Pacific Health Dialog, Vol.3. No. 1, March 2006
Reducing the Risk of Environmental
Disasters for a Healthy Pacific Attended by
50 select professionals 30 organizations12 countries6 Health Ministries/Depts.
Objectives Investigate and report the
disaster hazards and vulnerabilities currently facing Pacific islanders
Identify and prioritize opportunities for disaster risk reduction in Pacific Island countries and territories
Time Monday, February 4 Reducing Exposures
Tuesday, February 5 Reducing Vulnerability
Wednesday February 6 Identifying Priorities
8:00-9:00
Disast er Reduc t ion Panel Heal t h Panel Repor t on Hazar ds Keim (CDC): Welcome and an Overview of Disaster risk reduction (DRR) and health
Zagaria (WHO): Disaster risk reduction in the Pacific
Kuartei (Palau): NCD Disaster in the Pacific
Shen: (HealthCrowd) Use of text messaging for patient care
Rykken (HHS): Hospital preparedness in the Pacific
Report of Climate Project Workgroup
Report of Seismic Project Workgroup
9:00-10:00
Cl imat e Panel Educat ion P anel Repor t on vul ner abil it y Ebi: (ClimAdapt) Climate change and health in the Pacific
Marra: (NOAA): Climate change and sea level rise in the Pacific
Ballard: (NOAA): Cyclones in the Pacific
Dever (PIHOA): Human resources for health
Kafoa (Fiji SoM): Educating the caregivers
Tosatto (Medical Reserve Corps): Educating the community
Report of Health Project Workgroup
Report of Education Project Workgroup
10:00-10:30 BREAK
10:30-11:15
Geol ogic Panel Cr it ical r esour ces Panel Report of Resource Project Workgroup Jaffe:
Tsunami hazards in the Pacific
Stock: Landslide hazards in the Pacific
Walmsley (HHS): Water and health
Allen (PREL): Pacific water projects
Sarisky (CDC): CDC water projects
Set t ing P r ior it ies
Prioritizing Projects
11:15-1:00 LUNCH SPEAKERS: (CDC) 11:45-12:45
Health impacts of natural disasters LUNCH SPEAKER: Briggs (GlobalInt)
Climate and energy in the Pacific - 12:00-12:30 LUNCH
P r oj ec t Wor kgr oups P r oj ec t Wor kgr oups Prioritizing Projects
(continued) 1:00-2:30 Climate workgroup Seismic workgroup Health workgroup
Education workgroup
Resources workgroup
2:30-3:00 BREAK
3:00-4:30
Climate workgroup
Seismic workgroup Health workgroup
Education workgroup
Resources workgroup Closing remarks
Outcomes and outputsParticipants will:Participants will:
Identify and prioritize disaster hazards and vulnerabilitieshazards and vulnerabilities
Develop a regional strategy regional strategy to reduce the risk of adverse health outcomes due to disasters
Develop project proposals project proposals for reducing the risk of health emergencies in the Pacific
Proceedings of the Proceedings of the meeting will be available meeting will be available for:for:Scientific publicationGovernmental and non-
governmental funding and policy considerations
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