The Need for a National Strategy to Assess and Reduce Disaster-Related Mortality in the United States

Affiliations

¹ Mark E. Keim is CEO of DisasterDoc, LLC, Atlanta, GA. Thomas D. Kirsch is Director of the National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Uniformed Services University, Rockville, MD. Oscar Alleyne is with the National Association of City and County Health Officers, Washington, DC. Georges Benjamin is Executive Director of the American Public Health Association, Washington, DC. Linda DeGutis is with Defense Health Horizons, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD. David Dyjack is with the National Environmental Health Association, Denver, CO. Frederick M. Burkle Jr is with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA.

Editorial

Mark E Keim et al. Am J Public Health. 2019 Apr.

. 2019 Apr;109(4):539-540.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2019.304975.

¹ Mark E. Keim is CEO of DisasterDoc, LLC, Atlanta, GA. Thomas D. Kirsch is Director of the National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Uniformed Services University, Rockville, MD. Oscar Alleyne is with the National Association of City and County Health Officers, Washington, DC. Georges Benjamin is Executive Director of the American Public Health Association, Washington, DC. Linda DeGutis is with Defense Health Horizons, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD. David Dyjack is with the National Environmental Health Association, Denver, CO. Frederick M. Burkle Jr is with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA.

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