Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Public Health Response to Humanitarian Emergencies, 2007-2016.

Humanitarian emergencies, including complex emergencies associated with fragile states or areas of conflict, affect millions of persons worldwide. Such emergencies threaten global health security and have complicated but predictable effects on public health. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Emergency Response and Recovery Branch (ERRB) (Division of Global Health Protection, Center for Global Health) contributes to public health emergency responses by providing epidemiologic support for humanitarian health interventions.

Displaced populations due to humanitarian emergencies and its impact on global eradication and elimination of vaccine-preventable diseases.

Populations affected by humanitarian emergencies may require unique strategies to ensure access to life-saving vaccines and attain sufficiently high population immunity to interrupt virus circulation. Vaccination strategies among displaced populations should not be an afterthought and must be part of the vaccine-preventable disease eradication and elimination initiatives from the start.

Vaccine-preventable diseases in humanitarian emergencies among refugee and internally-displaced populations.

Humanitarian emergencies may result in breakdown of regular health services including routine vaccination programs. Displaced populations including refugees and internally displaced persons are particularly susceptible to outbreaks of communicable diseases such as vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs). Common VPDs encountered in humanitarian emergencies include measles, polio, and depending on geographical location, meningococcal meningitis, yellow fever, hepatitis A, and cholera.

Rapid monitoring in vaccination campaigns during emergencies: the post-earthquake campaign in Haiti.

Problem: The earthquake that struck Haiti in January 2010 caused 1.5 million people to be displaced to temporary camps. The Haitian Ministry of Public Health and Population and global immunization partners developed a plan to deliver vaccines to those residing in these camps.

An Evaluation of an Early Warning Alert and Response Network (EWARN) in Darfur, Sudan.

Objective: To conduct a field-based evaluation of an Early Warning Alert and Response Network (EWARN) in Darfur, Sudan.

Methods: Using adapted surveillance evaluation guidelines, evaluators reviewed EWARN documents and conducted semi-structured in-depth interviews and group discussions with key informantsat national, state, and local levels. Evaluators conducted visits at 18 purposively sampled clinics in all Darfur states.

Psychosocial interventions for the prevention of disability following traumatic physical injury.

Background: Traumatic physical injury can result in many disabling sequelae including physical and mental health problems and impaired social functioning.

Objectives: To assess the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions in the prevention of physical, mental and social disability following traumatic physical injury.

Search Strategy: The search was not restricted by date, language or publication status.

The lasting legacy of war: epidemiology of injuries from landmines and unexploded ordnance in Afghanistan, 2002-2006.

Introduction: Due to several decades of armed conflict and civil unrest, Afghanistan is one of the countries most affected by landmines and unexploded ordnance worldwide.

Objective: The study was performed to assess the magnitude of injuries due to landmines and unexploded ordnance in Afghanistan during 2002-2006 and to describe epidemiological patterns and potential risk factors for these events.

Methods: Surveillance data including 5,471 injuries caused by landmines and unexploded ordnance in Afghanistan during 2002-2006 were analyzed.

Seen but not heard: injuries and deaths from landmines and unexploded ordnance in Chechnya, 1994-2005.

Introduction: Due to more than a decade of armed conflict and civil unrest, Chechnya is among the regions most affected by landmines and unexploded ordnance worldwide.

Hypothesis: The study was performed to assess the magnitude of injuries and deaths due to landmines and unexploded ordnance in Chechnya between 1994 and 2005 and to describe epidemiologic patterns and risk factors for these events.

Methods: Surveillance data that included 3,021 civilian non-combatants injured by landmines and unexploded ordnance in Chechnya during 1994-2005 were analyzed.

Death and injury from landmines and unexploded ordnance in Afghanistan.

Context: Afghanistan is one of the countries most affected by injuries due to landmines and unexploded ordnance.

Objective: To understand the epidemiological patterns and risk factors for injury due to landmines and unexploded ordnance.

Design And Setting: Analysis of surveillance data on landmine and unexploded ordnance injuries in Afghanistan collected by the International Committee of the Red Cross in 390 health facilities in Afghanistan.