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Reducing the Risk of Environmental Disasters for a Healthy Pacific

Reducing the Risk of Environmental Disasters for a Healthy Pacific. Mark Keim, MD Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Pacific islanders carry the highest environmental disaster burden in the entire world.

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Reducing the Risk of Environmental Disasters for a Healthy Pacific

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  1. Reducing the Risk of Environmental Disasters for a Healthy Pacific Mark Keim, MD Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  2. Pacific islanders carry the highest environmental disaster burden in the entire world • Environmental emergencies are becoming more frequent among all developing nations of the world 1 1Noji, The Public Health Consequences of Disasters

  3. First Pacific Health Summit for Sustainable Disaster Risk Management • Summit I – 2004 • Attended by 16 Health Ministers of the Pacific basin • Developed the world’s first coordinated regional strategy for management of public health emergencies over the next decade • Invited to present in plenary session of the Second World Congress for Disaster Reduction in Kobe, Japan

  4. First Pacific Health Summit for Sustainable Disaster Risk Management • Produced a regional declaration for risk management that named 32 objectives related to: • Preparedness • Mitigation • Response • Recovery

  5. First Pacific Health Summit for Sustainable Disaster Risk Management • CDC presented the Declaration of the 2004 Pacific Health Summit at the Second World Congress for Disaster Reduction in Hyogo, Japan in January 2005

  6. 2nd Pacific Health Summit for Sustainable Disaster Risk Management • Summit II – 2005 • Attended by 19 Health Ministers and the world donor and NGO community • Operationalized the objectives of Summit I into 16 international project proposals

  7. 2nd Pacific Health Summit for Sustainable Disaster Management • Sixteen project concept papers were published in the peer review literature Pacific Health Dialog, Vol.3. No. 1, March 2006

  8. Reducing the Risk of Environmental Disasters for a Healthy Pacific • Attended by • 50 select professionals • 30 organizations • 12 countries • 6 Health Ministries/Depts. • Objectives • Investigate and report the disaster hazards and vulnerabilities currently facing Pacific islanders • Identify and prioritize opportunities for disaster risk reduction in Pacific Island countries and territories

  9. Agenda

  10. Outcomes and outputs • Participants will: • Identify and prioritize disaster hazards and vulnerabilities • Develop a regional strategy to reduce the risk of adverse health outcomes due to disasters • Develop project proposals for reducing the risk of health emergencies in the Pacific • Proceedings of the meeting will be available for: • Scientific publication • Governmental and non-governmental funding and policy considerations

  11. THANK YOU

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