This lecture is dedicated by Global Health Disaster Network (GHDN) to the victims of 26 Dec 2004 disaster at south Asia.

Please send the messages to aardalan@gmail.com . It would be great to have you involved.

Ali Ardalan, MD, MPH, PH.D. student of Epidemiology

Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

School of Public Health & Institute of Public Health Research

Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Iran

Ronald E. LaPorte, Ph.D.
Professor of Epidemiology

Director, Disease Monitoring and Telecommunications, WHO Collaborating Centre
Graduate School of Public Health
University of Pittsburgh
USA

Eugene Shubnikov, MD

Senior Research Fellow

Institute of Internal Medicine

Novosibirsk City, Russia

Faina Linkov, M.P.H.

Research Assistant

Department of Epidemiology

University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA 15261 USA

Eric K Noji, MD, MPH

Senior Advisor to the Director

Office of Emergency Preparedness & Response (NCEH/ATSDR)

Centers for Disease Control (CDC)