International Emergency and Refugee Health Branch

• IERHB is a core member of the CDC team working with others in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), various branches of the U.S. military, and other federal and international agencies to help communities in Haiti recover from the powerful earthquake that struck the country on January 12, 2010. We are collaborating with national and international partners to meet urgent public health needs and establishing liaisons and coordination needed for successful, long range public health programs in response to the earthquake. IERHB staff are part of the 308 CDC staff members currently engaged in response activities, and have been deployed to Haiti and response agencies as part of Disaster Assistance and Response Teams, members of the U.S. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Haiti Response Team, and rapid assessment teams as well as seconded to other U.S., Haitian and UN agencies in support of the Haitian relief effort. IERHB has an ongoing commitment to Haiti and are currently conducting a nutritional survey in the most affected areas.
• For more information about CDC’s work in Haiti please visit: http://emergency.cdc.gov/disasters/earthquakes/

• Bilukha OO, Brennan M, Anderson M: The lasting legacy of war: Epidemiology of injuries from landmines and unexploded ordnance in Afghanistan, 2002-2006. Prehospital Disast Med 2008;23(6):493–499.
• Lopes Cardozo, B. Guidelines need a more evidence based approach. Intervention 2008; 6 (3/4): 252-254.
• Nutritional and Health Status of Children During a Food CrisisNiger, September 17 - October 14, 2005 [PDF - 202 KB]
• Emergency Nutrition and Mortality Surveys Conducted Among Sudanese Refugees and Chadian Villagers, Northeast Chad, June 2004 [PDF - 1540 KB]

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