Crises Group Seminar Feb 2015 by Dr. Mashaharu Tsubokura Audio

On 11 March 2011, Japan experienced an unprecedented earthquake and tsunami compounded by a radiation-release incident at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. Nearly 16,000 lives were lost, over 300,000 people had to evacuate, and approximately 1,600 deaths were indirectly related to the disaster. Two months later, Dr. Masaharu Tsubokura and his team from the University of Tokyo began to offer medical support to the severely affected coastal cities of Minamisoma and Soma and evacuated areas. Working with local medical professionals at Minamisoma General Municipal Hospital and surrounding facilities, they established the first internal radiation exposure screening program in Fukushima after the disaster. They have so far screened 100,000 people. Come listen to the team's stories about their initial experience of the disaster, the challenges of evacuation and recovery in an aging society and the current local public health context. They will also present observational data on radiation exposure levels among residents in these cities, to discuss ongoing health risks in the area.


Fukashima Nuclear Disaster

Audio presentation of the "Mortality among populations of southern and central Somalia affected by severe food insecurity and famine during 2010-2012" report.
Speaker: Dr. Francesco Checchi (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
Authors of the report:
Francesco Checchi (LSHTM) and W.Courtland Robinson (Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health)

Crises group