The National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health (NCDMPH) held the first annual Disasters and Health: State of Science Symposium
on April 25-26, 2019, at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Washington, DC.
The symposium was a dynamic event convening the leading disaster experts from the fields of science, academia, government, finance and technology. The objective of the symposium was to identify the important issues enabling and constraining an evidence-based approach to disaster preparedness and response, with a particular focus on health.