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This page contains resources and information for the Haiti earthquake recovery.
The page will be updated on a continual basis, so please check back often.
If you know of other response activities and initiatives of ASPH-member schools of public health that you would like included on this page, please E-mail Kate Howe, khowe@asph.org.
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Colorado School of Public Health
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Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
- Students & alumni from the Population and Family Health Program on Forced Migration and Health are providing rapid needs assessment, emergency medical attention, and child protection efforts. Current students/recent grads working in Haiti include International Emergency Medicine Fellows, a program directed by Dr. Rachel Moresky from the Program on Forced Migration and Health and Emergency Medicine, deployed with the International Medical Corps (IMC). Students also created Students for Ayiti (Haiti), which has reached out to students across the Columbia campus and aims to provide resources and information needed to coordinate aid to Haiti. [See more information here.]
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Faculty involvment: Dr. Neil Boothby is advising the U.S. Government and UNICEF in Haiti. Dr. Ronald Waldman is on the ground coordinating the U.S. Government’s health efforts (see more information here). Dr. Irwin Redlener is advising the U.S. State Department and working on disaster communications. Dr. Richard Garfield, Henrik H. Bendixen professor of clinical nursing and faculty member at the National Center for Disaster Preparedness and the Program on Forced Migration and Health, is advising the CDC on their response in Haiti and multisector assessment under auspices of the U.N., the reestablishment of surveillance systems, lab systems and the training of epidemiologists.
- Dr. Michael Wessells, professor of population and family health and senior faculty in the Program on Forced Migration and Health, co-wrote (with WHO) the Interagency Standing Committee Guidelines on Psychosocial and Mental Health support in emergency settings, which are currently being applied in Haiti to enable humanitarian actors on the ground to plan, establish, and coordinate a set of minimum multisectoral responses to protect and improve people’s mental health and psychosocial well-being.
- Dr. Robert Bristow, assistant clinical professor of emergency medicine and faculty member at the school’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness, spent two weeks in Haiti immediately following the earthquake. Deployed with NYC Medics, he worked with colleagues to provide emergency medical care in areas of Port au Prince where aid had not arrived. With the support of the 82nd Airborne, they developed mobile medical clinics that provided acute care in the difficult to access informal tent camps around the city and in the large, marginal community of City Soleil. He is continuing to provide advice and support to NYC Medics and Americares, a Connecticut based NGO that provides disaster relief and humanitarian medical aid to people in crisis in the USA and around the world.
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Harvard School of Public Health
- Faculty members are part of a joint effort with Brigham and Women’s Hospital to manage a medical displacement camp on the border of the Dominican Republic and Haiti. The school and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) have provided leadership for the U.N. Health Cluster and the field hospital. More updates available at: http://www.hhi.harvard.edu/ and http://twitter.com/HHI.
- Hilarie Cranmer (MPH’04), assistant professor in the department of global health and population and an attending physician and clinical instructor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is coordinating BWH’s emergency response team. Read an interview about her work.
- Florida International University Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work
- Dr. Pilar Martinhas worked extensively with Orphanage Rose "mina" de Diegue, located in Port-au-Prince (Petion Ville). She has also consulted with Quisqueya University and with the Haitian Public Health Association on research. She will be taking donations to Haiti.
- Dr. Jessy Devieux served as a panelist on an FIU "Haiti Teach-In" on Saturday, January 16, 2010. Dr. Devieux has a long-standing research relationship working with the Haitian Group for the Study of Kaposi’s Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections (www.gheskio.org) which was founded in 1982.
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Dr. Tom Kirsch, associate professor of international health and co-director of the Center for Refugee and Disaster Response, is leading a 10 member response team deployed by the Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response (CEPAR). The team is working in collaboration with International Medical Corps, and will be stationed at University Hospital in Port-au-Prince. CEPAR will deploy a second team on February 4.
- The School's Center for Refugee and Disaster response has assembled a team to assist with relief efforts. They are arranging to travel to northern Haiti to assess public health needs of refugees: http://www.jhsph.edu/refugee/.
- Dr. Jean Ford, associate professor in the department of epidemiology, arrived in Haiti on January 19. He is working with Project Medishare. Click here to read his account from the field.
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Loma Linda University School of Public Health and Center for Public Health Preparedness
- View a video on YouTube of the school's responses:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGGV1j6rzcY
- A disaster response team arrived in Haiti on January 21, and will remain through early February. The team is operating out of Carrefour, the location of the Hopital Adventiste d’Haiti and the Haiti country office of the nonprofit Adventist Development and Relief Agency, working to prevent a public health crisis in the nearby camp for displaced persons, doing assessments that serve as a baseline for the activities of local partner relief agencies, and coordinating between relief organizations
- Water and sanitation expert Dr. Ryan Sinclair has been working on the water treatment system to ensure usable water for the hospital as it treats many of the injured.
- In addition to Dr. Sinclair, the group in Haiti comprises: Walleska Bliss, coordinator of the schools’ Center for Public Health Preparedness (CPHP), Andrea Champlin, CPHP program manager, team leader Jesse Bliss, CPHP director. Dr. Alina Dorian (UCLA) is working stateside with the response team.
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Saint Louis University School of Public Health
- Dr. Roger Lewis, enviornmental health faculty, is shipping 100 water filter units from his research base in the Dominican Republic to Haiti.
- Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Rural Public Health
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University of Arizona Zuckerman College of Public Health
Arizona Faculty, Students continue to provide aid in Haiti
(Arizona Daily Wildcat, April 28, 2010)
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University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health
- Laura Stachel, a doctoral student, and her husband, Hal Aronson, formed an organization, WE CARE Solar, whose mission is "saving mothers' lives with solar-powered light and communication." Originally designed for her work in Nigeria, WE Care Solar (Women's Emergency Communication and Reliable Electricity) raised the money to purchase materials to build electricity-generating "solar suitcases" to help cope with the Haiti's immense medical needs. See more here.
- Sandy Bhaurla, a student intern in the Center for Global Public Health and vice president of the Cal Undergrad Public Health Coalition, is teaming up with other Berkeley student organizations to fund raise for Haiti relief efforts.
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University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Health
- The UCLA Public Health Student Association along with other campus groups is sponsoring an all-day event on January 22, 2010 to benefit Haiti relief efforts. The event will feature live entertainment, dance classes and food.
- University of Florida College of Public Health
- Dean Michael Perri, faculty, and staff have been working with the Christianville Community in the town of Gressier, Haiti for about 14 months. When the earthquake occurred, Dean Perri organized a team of nine public health, medical, and nursing first responders. The team flew out on Monday, January 18. The team has conducted a public health assessment and is making arrangements to address the needs of the town.
- Student groups throughout the college and the University of Florida are actively engaged in a campaign to raise $50,000 for Haiti.
- University of Georgia College of Public Health
- Stephen Dorner, student in the department of environmental health science, is coordinating a Haiti-relief project called "Dawgs for Haiti" to raise money to support the victims of this devastating earthquake.
- University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health
- The vice president of the Minority Students for the Advancement of Public Health (MSAPH) has had several planning meetings to organize a drive in collaboration with the Haiti Congress to Fortify Haiti. The School of Public Health will be the Greater Chicago drop-off location for the supplies and will host an event faculty, staff, alumni and students will participate in putting the packages together for pick-up and delivery.
- University of Iowa College of Public Health
- In spring 2009, Jeff Dawson, professor of biostatistics, offered his expertise in statistics, public health, and the Creole language to assist a volunteer medical team that traveled to Haiti. Regarding the earthquake of January 12th, Dr. Dawson reports that he has been in communication with several of his contacts in Haiti. He is currently investigating options for returning to Haiti to help in the recovery efforts.
- Student Chris Buresh, an emergency medicine physician, deployed to Haiti with a World Wide Village/Childrens Nutrition Program team. They delivered supplies and established a triage station in Leogane. Updates on their work are posted on the blog of MPH student Laura Vonnahme: http://cph-lvonnahme.blogspot.com/.
- Laura Vonnahme and MD/MPH student Amanda River spoke about their experiences with World Wide Village in Leogane at a benefit for Haiti relief.
- University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-School of Public Health
- Volunteer Opportunities in Community Engaged Service organization members are conducting a supply drive for Haiti on its three New Jersey campuses, and, along with the Student Government Organization, are holding bake sales as fundraisers for monetary donations.
- Faculty member Dr. Lois Grau, who currently is in the Dominican Republic (DR) as part of the school's Dominican Republic Outreach Project, is working with another organization in the DR to donate supplies for Haiti. Several students had just departed the DR when the earthquake hit, but the clothing the students had collected and brought to the DR became donations for Haiti. Dr. Grau assisted in raising funds for medicine. She's continuing to seek clothing and medications should Haitian refugees begin seeking help in the DR.
- University of Michigan School of Public Health
- Students have taken a lead in organizing campus-wide response, forming a group that met to how to help the Haiti disaster effort (Jan. 14, 2010). Dr. Armando Matiz Reyes of the department of health behavior and health education called the meeting as part of his work with the Field Experience Office.
- Students have launched several fundraising events: A charity auction with proceeds going to Unicef, a raffle with proceeds going to the Yele Haiti Foundation, a Salsa night with proceeds going to Haiti Relief. There’s also an ongoing food and clothing drive:Let’s Do It for Haiti! Food & Clothing Donations.
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University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health
- Dean Ayman El-Mohandes and Dr. Magda Peck have organized a team of health professionals to deploy to Port-au-Prince on January 23rd under the auspices of the U.S. State Department. Dr. Rubens Pamies, a native of Haiti, will accompany the team of 15 physicians and nurses who represent the critical specialties most needed at this stage, trauma and orthopedic surgery:
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health
- The student government joined forces with the Minority Student Caucus, Student Global Health Committee, Engineers Without Borders chapter and Campus Y to amplify awareness and raise money. The Student Global Health Committee will be donating proceeds from its global fashion show, silent auction and annual fundraiser to disaster relief in Haiti [February 11, 2010].
- Jennifer Nomides, MPH and UNC School of Medicine student, has worked with two orphanages and is organizing a medical clinic in the mountain regions. See more information on her work and updates from a friend in Haiti.
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