disaster Archives

Stanford University School of Medicine blog

National task force recommends structure for responding to public health crises

A national panel worked for three years on guidelines for improving research on public health emergency preparedness and response.

Providing aid to those humans – and animals – affected by the California fires

Stanford health care providers and vet technicians volunteered to help humans and animals affected by the most destructive fire in California’s history.

Amid devastation from the fire, a Stanford doctor stitches up George, a search dog

While working on the search and rescue team in the ruins of the Camp Fire, a Stanford emergency medicine physician helps in an unexpected way.

Emergency physicians train for search-and-rescue

Physicians and others from Stanford Emergency Medicine recently participated in a disaster preparation search-and-rescue drill at Moffett Field.