CRED
Assessing Public Health in Emergency Situations - International CRED Summer Course 2008
REDAT
August 2006:
The Regional Disaster Information Management System provides resources on disaster management and prevention in South and Southeast Asia.
EM-DAT
September 2007:
CRED CRUNCH 10 Newsletter: Disaster Data: A Balanced Perspective.
June 2007:
HOYOIS P., SCHEUREN J-M., BELOW R., GUHA-SAPIR D. (2007). Annual Disaster Statistical Review: Numbers and Trends 2006, CRED: Brussels. [ID n°231].
June 2007:
CRED CRUNCH 9 Newsletter: Disaster Data: A Balanced Perspective.
March 2007:
CRED CRUNCH 8 Newsletter: Occurrence and impact of natural disasters in 2006.
March 19-20, 2007:
Expert Consultation on the Assessment of Physical Damages following Disasters, UNDP/CRED/UE, Brussels.
February 2007:
New graph trends updated with 2006 data are available here.
January 2007:
CRED Crunch.
January 2007:
Press Release 2007.
CE-DAT
September 2007:
Newsletter: CE-DAT Scene.
March 22-23:
UNHCR UNFPA CRED Workshop on Internally Displaced Persons.
February 2007:
Survey Conference 2007.
January 2007:
Brief DRC: Analyis of anthropometric survey from 2000-2006.
CRED CITATION
GUHA-SAPIR D. (2007):
Corporate givers' club should be expanded beyond US billionaires(...)
CRED
CRED promotes research, training, and information dissemination on disasters, with a special focus on public health, epidemiology, structural and socio-economic aspects. It aims to enhance the effectiveness of developing countries' disaster management capabilities as well as fostering policy-oriented research.
Our goals
- To promote research and provide information to the international community that ensures sufficient preparedness and improved responses to disasters and populations in danger.
- To train field managers, relief officers, doctors and health professionals in the management of short and long-term disaster situations.
- To introduce emergency preparedness and response in development programmes of disaster-prone countries.
- To develop autonomy of developing countries to improve their own preparedness for and response capacities for emergencies and critical situations.
Week 44: 29 October - 04 November 2007
Natural Disasters
- Mexico, floods in Chiapas and Tabasco
- Viet Nam, floods
- Dominican Republic and Haiti, tropical storm "Noel"*
- India, floods in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu
- Philippines, floods and landslides in Southern Luzon
- Burundi, tornado in BujumburaGreece, wild fires in Peloponese.
Technological Disasters
- Russia, fire in a home for old people, Toula
- Italy, shipwreck with illegal immigrants near Syracuse (Sicilia)
- Cameroon, collision with three vehicles in Njombée.
* Disasters reported by UN-OCHA/ReliefWeb
The International Disaster Database: provides methodologically- compiled data on global disater occurrence and impact.
MICRODIS is a project with the overall goal to strengthen preparedness, mitigation and prevention strategies.
The Complex Emergency Database: standardized and comprehensive data on the human impact of conflict.
The Bibliography Database: Search our collection of publications on disasters, conflicts and their human impacts.