Introduction
1. Key public health concepts of disaster preparedness and response
2. Disaster concepts and trends
3. General public health impacts of natural disasters
4. The specific human health impacts of natural disasters
5. When public health and disaster collide: responding to health needs in natural disasters
6. Current and likely medical and public health threats and challenges for disaster response in the twenty-first century
7. Resources for disaster response and beyond
8. From public health emergency preparedness to resilience
9. Conclusion
Biography
Emily Ying Yang Chan is a professor and assistant dean at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Faculty of Medicine and visiting professor of public health medicine at the Oxford University Nuffield Department of Medicine. She is also associate director at CUHK JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, centre director at Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (CCOUC), director at CUHK Centre for Global Health, visiting scholar at the Harvard University FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, senior fellow at Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, fellow at Hong Kong Academy of Medicine, member of The Asia Science Technology and Academia Advisory Group of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR ASTAAG) and co-chairperson of World Health Organization Thematic Platform for Health Emergency & Disaster Risk Management Research Group.
