Reference Manual for Humanitarian Health Professionals (6th Ed., 6th ed. 2019)
Missioncraft in Disaster Relief® Series

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The ReferenceManual for Humanitarian Health Professionals: Missioncraft in Disaster Relief is a hands-on resource written for disaster relief practitioners, educators, and researchers working in clinical medicine, public health, or disaster management.  

?Missioncraft? is the art and science of preparing and conducting successful field operations. This manual provides state-of-the-art technical reference information developed from inter-disciplinary, inter-agency, and international best practices. It also provides tools and templates for health professionals addressing key disaster issues including security stabilization, rapid epidemiological assessment, environmental health, disease surveillance, epidemic preparedness, communicable disease control, standardized case management, referral practices, laboratory diagnostics, and medical logistics. Reference information and associated tools are presented in a concise, comprehensive, and structured format to help humanitarian health professionals plan, undertake, and manage high-impact interventions.  

Sections are arranged in chronological order of essential activities in disaster relief operations: 

·        Pre-departure preparation

·        Field briefing

·        Field assessment

·        Field recommendations

·        Field reporting

·        Field project and staff management

·        Medical coordination

·        Re-entry 

The Reference Manual for Humanitarian Health Professionals is an authoritative resource for disaster health professionals in leadership roles in governmental, non-governmental, Red Cross, or UN agencies; health professionals anticipating future disaster deployment as agency medical coordinator, team leader, or health cluster coordinator; field-based staff responsible for health outcomes of disaster-affected populations; disaster relief specialists involved in strategic planning, project design and development, project management, monitoring and evaluation, and accountability to affected populations; educators and trainees in disaster health best practices; and, humanitarian researchers.

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Section 1         Pre-Departure Preparation

 

                        Guidance Notes

                        Core documents

                                    1.1       Information

                                    1.2       Personal Effects

Section 2         Field Briefing

 

                        Guidance Notes

                        Core Documents

                                    2.1       Security Checklist

                                    2.2       Medical Handover Checklist

                        Tools

                                    2.T1     Health System Profile

                                    2.T2     Emergency Management System Profile

                                    2.T3     Subnational Jurisdictions

                                    2.T4     Layers of Conflict      

                                    2.T5     Meetings Calendar

                                    2.T6     Disaster Response Chronology

Section 3         Field Assessment

 

                        Guidance Notes

                        Core Documents

                                    3.1       Rapid Epidemiological Assessment

                                    3.2       Site-specific Assessment

                                    3.3       Feeding Center Assessment

                        Tools

                                    3.T1     Pre-Existing Indicators

                                    3.T2     Population and Infrastructure Damage Estimation

                                    3.T3     Sectoral Gap Identification

Section 4         Field Recommendations

 

                        Guidance Notes

                        Core Documents

                                    4.1       Rapid Epidemiological Assessment Recommendations

                        Tools

                                    4.T1     Recommendations Worksheet

Section 5         Field Reporting

 

                        Guidance Notes

                        Core Documents

                                    5.1       Rapid Epidemiological Assessment Report

                                    5.2       Weekly Health Situation Report

                                    5.3       Health Sector Status Summary

Section 6         Field Project and Staff Management

 

                        Guidance Notes

                        Core Documents

                                    6.1       Project Planning Overview

                                    6.2       Project Plan of Action

                        Tools

                                    6.T1     Project Map

6.T2     Logical Framework Definitions and Process

                                    6.T3     Logframe Template

                                    6.T4     Project Monitoring and Evaluation Worksheet

                                    6.T5     Remote Management Worksheet

                                    6.T6     Disaster Medicine Staff Qualifications

Section 7         Medical Coordination

 

                        Guidance Notes

                        Core Documents

                                    7.1       Medical Coordinator Generic Terms of Reference

                                    7.2       Medical Coordinator Work Products

                                    7.3       Health Cluster Principles of Coordination

                        Tools

                                    7.T1     Health Cluster Meeting Agenda

                                    7.T2     Health Cluster Meeting Process

Section 8         Technical Annexes

 

                        Guidance Notes

                        Annex 1           Humanitarian Programs

                        Annex 2           Security Sector

                        Annex 3           Health Sector

                        Annex 4           Tropical Medicine

                        Annex 5           Epidemic Preparedness and Response

                        Annex 6           Diagnostic Laboratory

                        Annex 7           Acronyms

Section 9         Resilience and Reentry

 

                        Guidance Notes

Epilogue

Author Biodata

The authors’ criterion-referenced qualifications inform their pursuit of Missioncraft. Each author possesses:  

  • current specialty board certifications or specialty college fellowships in clinical medicine and public health;
  • organizational experience as disaster medical coordinator or team leader for governmental, non-governmental, United Nations, and Red Cross organizations;
  • field experience as disaster medical coordinator or health advisor in two dozen or more countries on five continents;
  • language fluency in two or more official UN languages;
  • national or international awards for field excellence from governmental, non-governmental, and Red Cross organizations; and,
  • Rockefeller Foundation support for manuscript development.

David A. Bradt, MD, MPH, FACEM, FAFPHM, FACEP, DTM&H, is a disaster epidemiologist trained in emergency medicine and public health. He has earned fellowships from five medical specialty societies across the US, UK, and Australia as well as cross-trained in disaster management through the International Committee of the Red Cross, the World Health Organization, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and the US Agency for International Development’s Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance. His professional interest is disaster health services leading to disaster field experience in 25 countries and territories. Among his field assignments, he served as emergency physician in the Mujahideen-Afghan Surgical Hospital casualty receiving station at the Afghan-Pakistan border during the Afghan-Soviet war, International Federation of Red Cross medical coordinator in Zaire during the Rwandan genocide, International Rescue Committee physician in Macedonia and Albania during the Kosovo ethnic cleansing, WHO medical coordinator in Indonesia after the Indian Ocean tsunami, WHO emergency coordinator in Tunisia during the Libyan civil war, WHO senior public health advisor in South Sudan during its civil war, USAID\OFDA senior field officer in Sudan during the Darfur genocide, USAID\OFDA health advisor to the US Inter-agency Task Force after the Haiti earthquake, USAID\OFDA regional advisor in Southern Africa during the El Nino drought, and American Red Cross medical consultant at US disasters including Hurricane Andrew, Supertyphoon Paka, and World Trade Center terrorism.  

Dr. Bradt is a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Resident Scholar, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, and a Fulbright Specialist in Public/Global Health. He holds faculty appointments in the US at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. He consults on disaster health issues for governmental, non-governmental, Red Cross, and UN orga

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