Old authoritarian patterns of doctors’ behaviour are still alive and well in California
via bmj.com
Participatory EpidemiologyA review of lay and academic literature on participatory public healthThe Internet’s Population Doubled Over the Last Five YearsWho in the world were watching Haiti's crowdsourced disaster response?via google.com
This is a Google fusion table/intensity map (I can't change the color scheme) of where in the world site hits originated for the first four months of the Ushahidi Haiti crisis map. I've adjusted the results to hits per-capita. Participatory Disaster Response in Alabamavia youtube.com
I went back in news archives this week to find a few clips I remember from last spring's tornado outbreaks. This woman, a professor at a local university, organized a Facebook page with 75K followers and a twitter page with 2200 followers to manage a crowdsourced needs assessment. At 4 minutes, she is asked what was hard and she says two things that I have found to be universal in participatory disaster response: finding power (re electricity outages) and paying for the mobile minutes her role required. Infographic: How Africa TweetsNeeds AssessmentsI've been working on ways to analyze emerging vs traditional needs assessments following disasters. Of all my work so far, the classic wordle shows it best. Below, are two Wordles reflecting the data collected following the 2010 Haiti earthquake. The first is from the traditional post-disaster needs assessment, which was drafted in collaboration with the Haitian Government, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the United Nations system, the European Commission and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. Next, is a Wordle of the summary titles from the SMS messages from Ushahidi's crisis map. Both reflect data collected in the first three months following the earthquake. 
Internet users (per 100 people) | Data | MapGetting disaster risk reduction funding right: Margareta Wahlström responds to new report from GHA | Global Humanitarian Assistance
The Spread of Epidiplomacy at the US State DepartmentI've been cheating on my blogBut only twice. So far. Last week, on the occasion of International Women's Day, I published this piece in the UN Dispatch: Counting women’s lives (and deaths) on International Women’s Day And today, I have this piece, also in the UN Dispatch: MDG Water Target Met. But What About Sanitation and Diarrhea?
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