This lecture is dedicated by Global Health Disaster Network (GHDN) to the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Please send the messages to “aardalan@gmail.com” and “Ronlaporte@aol.com”. It would be great to have you involved.

Authors:
Ali Ardalan, MD, MPH, PH.D.
Health in Emergency & Disaster Division
Institute of Public Health Research
School of Public Health & Institute of Public Health Research
Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Tehran, 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

Mehdi Russel MD, MBA, Ph.D.
General Secretariat of Health Risk Management & Emergencies
Ministry of Health & Medical Education
Iran

Eric K Noji, MD, MPH
Senior Advisor to the Director
Office of Emergency Preparedness & Response (NCEH/ATSDR)
Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
USA