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This program was originally broadcast January 28, 2000.

 

Disasters, People and Public Health: Are You Ready?

Media Response to Disaster

  • Dispatch reporters
  • Overload responding agencies
  • Ask for numbers
  • Insist on access
  • Dramatize the situation.
  • Expect briefings
  • Confused by technical material.
  • Provide filler for stories if credible information not available.

Public Health Grand Rounds
A collaboration between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health
North Carolina Institute for Public Health
Campus Box 8165 | UNC-CH | Chapel Hill, NC 27599-8165
grandrounds@unc.edu
Phone 919.843.9261 | Fax 919.966.5692

A program of the North Carolina Institute for Public Health

 

 

 
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