Archive for the ‘Crisis’ Category
Video: Stanford Expert Questions Related to Healthcare Reform in the USA
Stanford University uploaded this to Youtube last Thursday 11th March. The lecture was delivered 17th November 2009.
Stanford University’s Alan Garber, Professor of Medicine, of Economic, and of Health Research and Policy discusses many of the important policy questions relevant to the health care reform debate in the United States.
Video: Expert Stanford Lecture on Century’s History with Pandemic Influenza
This is fantastic and worth watching if you are involved in crisis and risk communications work in public health. In a lecture delivered November 2, 2009, Stanford University’s Lucy S. Tompkins, Professor of Medicine and of Microbiology and Immunology. She explores the history, past and present, of the pandemic influenza covering the last century, today, and in the future.
Stanford Mini Med School is a series arranged and directed by Stanford’s School of Medicine, and presented by the Stanford Continuing Studies program. Featuring more than thirty distinguished, faculty, scientists and physicians from Stanford’s medical school, the series offers students a dynamic introduction to the world of human biology, health and disease, and the groundbreaking changes taking place in medical research and health care.
How Twitter Found A Missing Person Post-Chile Quake
Here is one powerful function of social media technology that is seldom reported on. Twitter is much, much more than a social yadayada tool. Few of us, let’s be honest, would think to turn to Twitter to find lost and missing people in a disaster zone. I’d be thinking that the network’s down so the internet and cellphone would be down. This moving story from Sherly Breuker and Ken Camp was first reported in Mashable, a leading social media guide online. Whoever thought that using the technology of twitter could be such an emotional experience:
Victim Support Need Volunteers To Help This Friday 12th March
VICTIM SUPPORT: If you have a couple of hours or more to help with the Annual Appeal this year, Victim Support will be out with their yellow buckets collecting on Friday 12th March 2010 between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m in Auckland’s CBD on Queen Street and around a few buildings on Fanshawe Street. Email me at info@viennarichards.com if you’re interested & able to help next Friday and I’ll put you in touch with co-ordinator at Auckland Central Police station.
Victim Support do great work, as volunteers, supporting people when a crime is committed, be it having your car broken into…or worse.
