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Disaster Diplomacy: Current Controversies and Future Prospects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Eugene S. Yim*
Affiliation:
Disaster Medicine Section, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Division of Disaster Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
David W. Callaway
Affiliation:
Disaster Medicine Section, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Division of Disaster Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA The Operational Medicine Institute, Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Saleh Fares
Affiliation:
Disaster Medicine Section, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Division of Disaster Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Gregory R. Ciottone
Affiliation:
Disaster Medicine Section, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Division of Disaster Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA The Operational Medicine Institute, Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
*
Division of Disaster MedicineDepartment of Emergency MedicineBeth Israel Deaconess Medical CenterOne Deaconess RoadCC West, 2nd Floor, Emergency MedicineBoston, Massachusetts 02215USA E-mail: eugene.yim@post.harvard.edu
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Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2009

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