Preparedness and Response
by Jenna Ogilvie | Dec 9, 2024 | Commentary, Perspectives
After disaster exposure, children are at risk for developing physical health problems, mental health symptoms, and difficulties in school. The hallmark mental health symptom observed among children after a disaster is post-traumatic stress (e.g., flashbacks,...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Dec 9, 2024 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Introduction Family reunification, the process of bringing members of a family, specifically children, back together after an event, is an essential component of disaster preparedness and management. Natural and mass casualty (no-notice) disasters can strike at any...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Oct 14, 2024 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
ABSTRACT | In the aftermath of disasters, prompt and safe family reunification is crucial, especially for pre-verbal children separated from their families. Settings may remain unsafe in the aftermath of disasters, and without the application of technology,...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Oct 14, 2024 | Commentary, Perspectives
Today’s children are expected to experience two to seven times more disaster events than their grandparents (Thiery et al., 2021). Climate-related disasters such as floods, hurricanes, and wildfires are key drivers of the outsized impacts disasters will have on...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Sep 23, 2024 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
ABSTRACT | The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Symposium on Pediatric Disaster Science, which was led by the Action Collaborative for Disaster Research, was held August 1st and 2nd, 2022, in Washington, DC. The meeting convened...
by Madeleine Deye | Nov 7, 2023 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
ABSTRACT | The initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States largely focused on addressing the immediate health consequences from the emergent pathogen. This initial focus often ignored the related impacts from the pandemic and from mitigation...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Sep 19, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Since December 2019, much of the world’s focus has been on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) as it emerged from Wuhan, China and rapidly spread across the world. As of this writing, there were over 570 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 globally, and...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jan 18, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >> Over the last decade, some of the digital technologies that have profoundly transformed industries from banking to media have, at last, arrived in health...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jan 18, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >> ABSTRACT | United States health care spending consumes nearly a fifth of the GDP [1]. While, in many respects, the U.S. health care system is enviable and...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Aug 30, 2021 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >> Introduction COVID-19 has fundamentally challenged the delivery of health care services across the world, forcing difficult choices on health...
