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Ready.Gov

Ready.gov is a national web site and information portal designed to educate and empower Americans to prepare for and respond to emergencies including natural and man-made disasters.

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ReliefWeb

Established in 1996, ReliefWeb has become one of the leading sources for reliable humanitarian information on global crises and disasters. ReliefWeb is a specialised digital service of the United Nations (U.N.) Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

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RODS

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Real-time Outbreak & Disease Surveillance (RODS) is a free software package for public health biosurveillance. RODS collects and analyzes disease surveillance data in real time. It is funded by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) and the National Library of Medicine (NLM).

Sahana Foundation Projects

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Sahana is a free and open source Disaster Management system. It addresses the common coordination problems during a disaster from finding missing people, managing aid, managing volunteers, tracking camps effec-tively between Government groups, the civil society (NGOs) and the victims themselves. See Sahana web site. Read More »

Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE)

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SOPHE and the National Enviromental Health Promotion Network (NEHPN) are dedicated to promoting resources in the fields of environmental health and emergency preparedness. Read More »

The Thin Line Group

ThinLine was founded to assist federal, state, and local government agencies, commercial and private sector organizations, with continuity planning, disaster prevention, and disaster response.  ThinLine provides consulting services and material solutions that address evolving man-made threats such as cyber warfare and terrorist threats. In addition, the Thin Line also addresses the dynamic environmental conditions that follow catastrophic natural disasters such as failing infrastructure. The Thin Line Group supports individuals and organizations that need realistic and sustainable resilience solutions to protect life, property, information, and functions.

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TriSano

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TriSano is a highly configurable and comprehensive public health data application. It allows local, state, federal and international agencies to identify, investigate and mitigate communicable and chronic diseases, environmental hazards, and bioterrorism events. Read More »

Ushahidi

http://www.ushahidi.com

Ushahidi is a non-profit tech company that specializes in developing free and open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping. The core Ushahidi platform is built on the premise that gathering crisis information from the general public provides new insights into events happening in near real-time. Read More »

VA's Hurricane Relief Efforts Extend Beyond Veterans

Johnathon Clinkscales | American Legion | October 5, 2017

The American Legion met with VA leadership on Sept. 29 to learn what humanitarian aid VA is, and has been, providing to hurricane victims in Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Florida and Texas..."There are 60 civilian hospitals in Puerto Rico, many of which are still inoperative, don't have power or have serious damage. There's only one hospital that is like the beacon in Puerto Rico and that is the VA medical center - seeing people, taking care of everybody we can and feeding everybody we can."..."We did a lot of preparing and started sending stuff down there before the hurricane. Now we're using these resources to take care of non-veterans and civilians until the hospitals - that are either damaged, incapable of operating or we don't know the condition of - come back into the system and then we'll transfer them. It is certainly necessary for a humanitarian effort like this," Loren said...

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WebEMS

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WebEMS is an open source web-based suite of tools used to facilitate emergency medical services (EMS). It supports the entire Ambulance Services Pipeline with modules that include dispatch, crew scheduling, mobile field data collection, billing, administration, and reporting. Read More »

What Puerto Rico’s Death Toll from Hurricane Maria Really Tells Us

Nicolette Louissaint | The Hill | September 7, 2018

The recently released report from the Milken Institute is perhaps the strongest rebuke to date on the impact of Hurricane Maria during the 2017 hurricane season. The report notes nearly 3,000 people have died in Puerto Rico because of the storm. These numbers provide a more accurate depiction of the devastation and lives lost in Puerto Rico. While sad and troubling, it is important to call out that these updated numbers do not even account for the death toll in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders (WISER)

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Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders (WISER) is a system designed to assist first responders in hazardous material incidents. WISER provides a wide range of information on hazardous substances, including substance identification support, physical characteristics, human health information, and containment and suppression advice.