The UK deployed an eight-strong team of humanitarian experts, including disaster response and search-and-rescue specialists.
A USAID disaster response team comprising search-and-rescue specialists from the Los Angeles County Fire Department and Virginia's Fairfax County Fire Department, along with Nepalese Armed Police Force units, helped extricate the teenager.
The importance of the emergency department and the specialists with regard to public health, surveillance, and disaster response and preparedness cannot be overstated.
Schwartz was just one of many NIEHS specialists who were, and in some cases still are, part of the largest disaster response mobilization in U.S. history.
Mrs. Chawla, 28, is a communications specialist in Washington at the national headquarters of the American Red Cross; she works in disaster response and corporate communications.
Hari Krishna Nibanupudi, senior disaster risk reduction specialist, International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal Hari Krishna has over 18 years' experience in international development, disaster response, preparedness and risk reduction.
Malka Older is former disaster risk reduction and emergency preparedness specialist with Save the Children, and is now working on a PhD at SciencesPo, Paris, on disaster response and governance.
Disaster response worked out to about $120.
In short, public-health information improves disaster response, and disaster response boosts public health.
Aid groups called for a large international disaster response.
