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Emergency Response Team: Roles and Responsibilities

Tulane Public Health Blog

As an integral part of disaster management efforts, emergency response teams work to educate and train community members in preparation for disasters and other emergency events, and to manage the response when they occur.

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Exclusive: Emails Reveal How Health Departments Struggle To Track Human Cases of Bird Flu

KFF Health News

. “I have been distressed and depressed by the lack of epidemiologic data and the lack of surveillance,” said Nicole Lurie, formerly the assistant secretary for preparedness and response in the Obama administration. “But a handful of mild symptoms don’t warrant a heavy-handed response.”

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Promoting and protecting the public’s health: recommendations for a new Administration and Congress, 2025

Big Cities Health Coalition

To bolster these efforts, BCHC urges the federal government to provide sustained funding, flexible resource allocation, and direct support to local health agencies, ensuring preparedness for future public health emergencies.

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Bird flu: Emails reveal how health departments struggle to track human cases

HEALTHBEAT

I have been distressed and depressed by the lack of epidemiologic data and the lack of surveillance,” said Nicole Lurie, formerly the assistant secretary for preparedness and response in the Obama administration. But a handful of mild symptoms don’t warrant a heavy-handed response.” All the bird flu cases among U.S.