SimEx: Simulation Exercises on Humanitarian Crisis

Wilderness medicine in disasters and humanitarian crisis.

doi:10.1017/S1049023X11006479 In the wake of highly publicized recent disasters in Haiti, Pakistan, and elsewhere, discourse among those concerned with the management of public health emergencies has focused on defining a standard of professionalism for humanitarian and disaster responders.1 Few “prerequisites” exist for the diversity of casual responders, experienced providers, and humanitaria...

Guideline for Strategic Crisis Management Exercises

Context ontology for humanitarian assistance in crisis response

Massive crisis open data is not fully utilized to identify humanitarian needs because most of it is not in a structured format, thus hindering machines to interpret it automatically and process it in a short time into useful information for decision makers. To address these problems, the paper presents a method which merges ontologies and logic rules to represent the humanitarian needs and reco...

A Modular Collaborative Web-Based Framework for Humanitarian Crisis Management

Humanitarian response inadequate in Horn of Africa crisis.

On a bed in the fi eld hospital run by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), an emaciated child, barely more than a stick fi gure, reaches out shakily to its mother’s back for support. But the mother is sitting on the edge of the bed with her back to the child, staring into space. She does not turn around. In the next bed, another refugee, Khadija, holds her 10-month-old son. They are doing slightly ...