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Responding to Natural and Industrial Disasters: Partnerships and Lessons Learned
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to provide insights learned from disaster research response (DR2) efforts following Hurricane Harvey in 2017 to launch DR2 activities following the Intercontinental Terminals Company (ITC) fire in Deer Park, Texas, in 2019. METHODS: A multidisciplinary group of...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8443687/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33722331 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2020.467 |
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author | Symanski, Elaine An Han, Heyreoun Han, Inkyu McDaniel, Michelle Whitworth, Kristina W. McCurdy, Sheryl Perkison, William Brett Rammah, Amal Lewis, P. Grace Tee Delclos, George L. Craft, Elena Bondy, Melissa Walker, Cheryl Lyn Hopkins, Loren Laurent, José Guillermo Cedeño James, Daisy |
author_facet | Symanski, Elaine An Han, Heyreoun Han, Inkyu McDaniel, Michelle Whitworth, Kristina W. McCurdy, Sheryl Perkison, William Brett Rammah, Amal Lewis, P. Grace Tee Delclos, George L. Craft, Elena Bondy, Melissa Walker, Cheryl Lyn Hopkins, Loren Laurent, José Guillermo Cedeño James, Daisy |
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description | OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to provide insights learned from disaster research response (DR2) efforts following Hurricane Harvey in 2017 to launch DR2 activities following the Intercontinental Terminals Company (ITC) fire in Deer Park, Texas, in 2019. METHODS: A multidisciplinary group of academic, community, and government partners launched a myriad of DR2 activities. RESULTS: The DR2 response to Hurricane Harvey focused on enhancing environmental health literacy around clean-up efforts, measuring environmental contaminants in soil and water in impacted neighborhoods, and launching studies to evaluate the health impact of the disaster. The lessons learned after Harvey enabled rapid DR2 activities following the ITC fire, including air monitoring and administering surveys and in-depth interviews with affected residents. CONCLUSIONS: Embedding DR2 activities at academic institutions can enable rapid deployment of lessons learned from one disaster to enhance the response to subsequent disasters, even when those disasters are different. Our experience demonstrates the importance of academic institutions working with governmental and community partners to support timely disaster response efforts. Efforts enabled by such experience include providing health and safety training and consistent and reliable messaging, collecting time-sensitive and critical data in the wake of the event, and launching research to understand health impacts and improve resiliency. |
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spelling | pubmed-84436872022-09-16 Responding to Natural and Industrial Disasters: Partnerships and Lessons Learned Symanski, Elaine An Han, Heyreoun Han, Inkyu McDaniel, Michelle Whitworth, Kristina W. McCurdy, Sheryl Perkison, William Brett Rammah, Amal Lewis, P. Grace Tee Delclos, George L. Craft, Elena Bondy, Melissa Walker, Cheryl Lyn Hopkins, Loren Laurent, José Guillermo Cedeño James, Daisy Disaster Med Public Health Prep Article OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to provide insights learned from disaster research response (DR2) efforts following Hurricane Harvey in 2017 to launch DR2 activities following the Intercontinental Terminals Company (ITC) fire in Deer Park, Texas, in 2019. METHODS: A multidisciplinary group of academic, community, and government partners launched a myriad of DR2 activities. RESULTS: The DR2 response to Hurricane Harvey focused on enhancing environmental health literacy around clean-up efforts, measuring environmental contaminants in soil and water in impacted neighborhoods, and launching studies to evaluate the health impact of the disaster. The lessons learned after Harvey enabled rapid DR2 activities following the ITC fire, including air monitoring and administering surveys and in-depth interviews with affected residents. CONCLUSIONS: Embedding DR2 activities at academic institutions can enable rapid deployment of lessons learned from one disaster to enhance the response to subsequent disasters, even when those disasters are different. Our experience demonstrates the importance of academic institutions working with governmental and community partners to support timely disaster response efforts. Efforts enabled by such experience include providing health and safety training and consistent and reliable messaging, collecting time-sensitive and critical data in the wake of the event, and launching research to understand health impacts and improve resiliency. 2022-06 2021-03-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8443687/ /pubmed/33722331 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2020.467 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Article Symanski, Elaine An Han, Heyreoun Han, Inkyu McDaniel, Michelle Whitworth, Kristina W. McCurdy, Sheryl Perkison, William Brett Rammah, Amal Lewis, P. Grace Tee Delclos, George L. Craft, Elena Bondy, Melissa Walker, Cheryl Lyn Hopkins, Loren Laurent, José Guillermo Cedeño James, Daisy Responding to Natural and Industrial Disasters: Partnerships and Lessons Learned |
title | Responding to Natural and Industrial Disasters: Partnerships and Lessons Learned |
title_full | Responding to Natural and Industrial Disasters: Partnerships and Lessons Learned |
title_fullStr | Responding to Natural and Industrial Disasters: Partnerships and Lessons Learned |
title_full_unstemmed | Responding to Natural and Industrial Disasters: Partnerships and Lessons Learned |
title_short | Responding to Natural and Industrial Disasters: Partnerships and Lessons Learned |
title_sort | responding to natural and industrial disasters: partnerships and lessons learned |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8443687/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33722331 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2020.467 |
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