Pocket Field Guide for Disaster Health Professionals

Introduction.- Section 1: Field Briefing.- 1.1: Security Checklist.- 1.2: Medical Handover Checklist.- 1.3: Health System Profile.- 1.4: Emergency Management System Profile.- Section 2: Field Assessment.- 2.1: Rapid Epidemiological Assessment.- 2.2: Site-specific Assessment.- 2.3: Feeding Center Assessment.- 2.4: Population and Infrastructure Damage Estimation.- 2.5: Sectoral Gap Identification.- Section 3: Field Recommendations.- 3.1: Rapid Epidemiological Assessment Recommendations.- 3.2: Recommendations Worksheet.- Section 4: Field Reporting.- 4.1: Rapid Epidemiological Assessment Report.- 4.2: Weekly Health Situation Report.- 4.3: Health Sector Status Summary.- Section 5: Field Project and Staff Management.- 5.1: Project Planning Overview.- 5.2: Project Plan of Action.- 5.3: Logical Framework Definitions and Process.- 5.4: Logframe Template.- 5.5: Project Monitoring and Evaluation Worksheet.- 5.6: Remote Management Worksheet.- Section 6: Medical Coordination.- Core Documents.- 6.1       Medical Coordinator Work Products.- 6.2       Health Cluster Principles of Coordination.- 6.3       Health Cluster Meeting Agenda.- 6.4       Health Cluster Meeting Process.- Section 7: Technical Annexes.- Guidance Notes.- Annex 1           Humanitarian Programs.- Annex 2           Security Sector.- Annex 3           Health Sector.- Annex 4           Tropical Medicine.- Annex 5           Epidemic Preparedness and Response.- Annex

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, USAID\OFDA senior field officer in Sudan during the Darfur genocide, USAID\OFDA health advisor to the US Inter-agency Task Force after the Haiti earthquake, USAID\OFDA 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