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Peggy Bentley
Associate Dean
Office of Global Health
Professor
Nutrition |
- Health needs of disaster survivors
- Controlling and treating infectious diseases
- Providing support for mental and emotional health problems
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Bill Gentry
Director
Community Preparedness and Disaster Management
Lecturer
Health Policy and Management |
- Rescue and recovery issues
- Involved in response efforts in the wake of a variety of natural and man-made disasters, including Hurricane Katrina and 9/11
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Deputy Director
NC Center for Public Health Preparedness Research Assistant Professor
Epidemiology |
- Responded to Hurricanes Isabel, Charley, Katrina and Wilma
- Uses Geographic Information Systems to conduct rapid assessments of disaster impact
- Infectious disease outbreaks
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Director
Global Breastfeeding Institute
Professor of the Practice of Public Health
Maternal and Child Health |
- In touch with the global network to support breastfeeding during this crisis to increase child survival
- Has a colleague located in Haiti
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Director
NC Center for Public Health Preparedness
Research Assistant Professor
Epidemiology |
- Outbreak investigation
- GIS and spatial statistics
- Infectious disease transmission systems
- Foodborne diseases
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Director
Program in Public Health Ethics
Associate Professor
Epidemiology
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- Public health ethics in disasters
- Principal author of the American Public Health Association's Code of Ethics
- Importance, during natural disasters, of coordination and collaboration, decision making and receiving community input
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Last updated January 20, 2010 |
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