Sustainability of Psychological First Aid Training for the Disaster Response Workforce

Affiliations

¹ Guthrie S. Birkhead is with the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Center for Public Health Preparedness, School of Public Health, University at Albany, Rensselaer, NY. Karla Vermeulen is with the Department of Psychology and the Institute for Disaster Mental Health, State University of New York, New Paltz.

Guthrie S Birkhead et al. Am J Public Health. 2018 Nov.

. 2018 Nov;108(S5):S381-S382.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2018.304643. Epub 2018 Sep 27.

¹ Guthrie S. Birkhead is with the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Center for Public Health Preparedness, School of Public Health, University at Albany, Rensselaer, NY. Karla Vermeulen is with the Department of Psychology and the Institute for Disaster Mental Health, State University of New York, New Paltz.

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