Public Health Humanitarian Responses to Natural Disasters

This book aims at making lessons learnt from previous disasters available and comprehensible to students of disaster medicine, disaster public health and humanitarian studies. Readers will gain insight and theoretical understanding of the public health issues related to disaster and medical humanitarian response and be empowered personally and professionally to take necessary actions in the individual, community and national levels to reduce the health risk posed by the increasing frequency and intensity of disaster.

Unlike other disaster-and-health textbooks in the market that have a strong focus on clinical management of victims and require technical knowledge from readers, "Public Health Principles in Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response" takes a step-by-step approach to deliver a wide array of public health theories in relation to disasters for readers from both medical non-medical backgrounds. This book is comprehensive in its coverage of relevant topics in disaster public health with a unique focus on Asia.

Emily Chan is Professor at the JC School of Public Health and Primary Care (JCSPHPC), Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is also Centre Director for the Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (CCOUC), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, since 2011 as well as Centre Director for the Centre for Global Health, JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, since 2013. She is an Honorary Research Fellow (Emerging Infectious Diseases and Emergency Preparedness) at Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, since 2010. She is a Fellow of the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, United States, since 2014.