US Military Veterans: An Untapped Resource as Disaster Volunteers

Affiliations

¹ Claudia Der-Martirosian, Susan Schmitz, Tamar Wyte-Lake, and Aram Dobalian are with the Veterans Emergency Management Evaluation Center, Office of Population Health, Veterans Health Administration, US Department of Veterans Affairs, Los Angeles, CA. Aram Dobalian is also with the Division of Health Systems Management and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN.

Claudia Der-Martirosian et al. Am J Public Health. 2019 Sep.

. 2019 Sep;109(S4):S263-S264.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2019.305137.

¹ Claudia Der-Martirosian, Susan Schmitz, Tamar Wyte-Lake, and Aram Dobalian are with the Veterans Emergency Management Evaluation Center, Office of Population Health, Veterans Health Administration, US Department of Veterans Affairs, Los Angeles, CA. Aram Dobalian is also with the Division of Health Systems Management and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN.

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