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National/international experience relevant to current mass casualty research and training needs


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Our Institute personnel will utilize previous experience gained after 10 years of on-site experience at Chernobyl, years of mass casualty response collaboration with the United Nations in Africa, and directly relevant work with leading federal intelligence, medical, and public health entities and private collaborators. IHMD faculty and staff have conducted experiments, field measurements, risk analysis, and health care strategy in the areas receiving the highest levels of airborne radiation contamination in history at Chernobyl. Over a 10 year period, expeditions into the most contaminated areas at the site of the world�s worst nuclear accident have created expertise of unique utility in training and exercising in a real-world setting, with unprecedented credibility.

Personnel from IHMD have also been working with the United Nations in direct deployment to African areas where hundreds of thousands have died in natural and man-made disasters, such as Rwanda, Sudan, and Sierra Leone. Some IHMD personnel at MCG and UGA have current top secret clearances and FBI certifications which have been utilized in research of direct relevance to WMD mass casualty response. This experience gives valuable insight and unique credibility for use in incident command, communication, detection technology, and mass casualty management research and training. The IHMD Director has been asked to speak at the United Nations on three occasions, including 2006 and 2007, on issues of mass casualty response, particularly relating to the imminent threat of nuclear war. Numerous appearances on national/international news outlets have also been made, including CNN (Anderson Cooper) and FOX (Hannity & Colmes), on issues of mass casualty preparedness.