Disasters and Emergency Management

  Write a 3-4 paged paper (excluding the title page and references) on a specific disaster. Examples include: • Earthquake • Tsunami • Tornado • Flood • Fire • Winter Storm • Heat-related Disaster • Volcanic Eruption • Avalanche • Disease epidemic or pandemic • Bioterrorism • Nuclear event You must address in your paper the following: 1) What issues in this disaster would make triaging of victims a challenge? 2) What Public Health issues may ensue (e.g., infectious disease outbreaks) and what can we do to mitigate the events? 3) How can interagency cooperation and local collaboration be effectively utilized?