Episode 79: Disaster Management and Preparedness
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A PODCAST LECTURE BY Lai Heng Foong
13/06/23
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SPEAKER Bio
Lai Heng Foong
Dr Foong is a Senior Emergency Physician based in Sydney who has a passion for Public Health and Disaster preparedness, Climate Change and Health, Indigenous Health and the social determinants of health. Before she studied medicine, she completed a Masters in public health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. She has worked for Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) and American Red Cross and taught Emergency Medicine courses in Cuba, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and Pakistan. She is currently the Chair of the Public Health and Disaster Committee of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM). She is a member of the Multi College Climate Change and Health Project of the Royal Australasian College for Physicians (RACP). She is the Clinical lead of the NSW ED Community of Practice (CoP) in Covid-19 Pandemic Response.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, you should be able to:
State the main principles of Disaster management
State the 4 phases of disaster management
List examples of disaster management in low and middle income countries (LMIC)
List the impacts of disasters on clinical practice
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