Reference Manual for Humanitarian Health Professionals

Acknowledgements.- Introduction.-Pre-Departure Preparation.- Field Briefing.- Field Assessment.- Field Recommendations.- Field Reporting.- Field Project and Staff Management.- Medical Coordination.- Technical Annexes.- Resilience and Reentry.- Epilogue.

David A. Bradt, MD, MPH, FACEM, FAFPHM, FACEP, DTM&H, is a disaster epidemiologist trained in emergency medicine and public health. He has earned fellowships from five medical specialty societies across the US, UK, and Australia as well as cross-trained in disaster management through the International Committee of the Red Cross, the World Health Organization, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and the US Agency for International Development's Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance. His professional interest is disaster health services leading to disaster field experience in 25 countries and territories. Among his field assignments, he served as emergency physician in the Mujahideen-Afghan Surgical Hospital casualty receiving station at the Afghan-Pakistan border during the Afghan-Soviet war, International Federation of Red Cross medical coordinator in Zaire during the Rwandan genocide, International Rescue Committee physician in Macedonia and Albania during the Kosovo ethnic cleansing, WHO medical coordinator in Indonesia after the Indian Ocean tsunami, WHO emergency coordinator in Tunisia during the Libyan civil war, WHO senior public health advisor in South Sudan during its civil war, USAIDOFDA senior field officer in Sudan during the Darfur genocide, USAIDOFDA health advisor to the US Inter-agency Task Force after the Haiti earthquake, USAIDOFDA regional advisor in Southern Africa during the El Nino drought, and American Red Cross medical consultant at US disasters including Hurricane Andrew, Supertyphoon Paka, and World Trade Center terrorism.
Dr. Bradt is a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Resident Scholar, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, and a Fulbright Specialist in Public/Global Health. He holds faculty appointments in the US at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. He consults on disaster health issues for governmental, non-governmental, Red Cross, and UN organizations. He has served as senior