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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 Presentation

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Page 1: Reducing the Risk of Environmental Disasters for a Healthy Pacific

Mark Keim, MDCenters for Disease Control

and Prevention

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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

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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

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First Pacific Health Summit for Sustainable Disaster Risk Management

Produced a regional declaration for risk management that named 32 objectives related to:PreparednessMitigationResponse Recovery

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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