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Table of
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1. Events coming up.
2. ===AAMC
STAT===: News from the Association of
American Medical Colleges (AAMC) – January 11, 2010 edition.
3. Inside OME: December 2009/Jan. 2010 combined issue,
from the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM™)
4. The American Dental
Education Association (ADEA) announces an ADEA Workshop and Recruitment Fair
for Predental Students and Advisors
in conjunction with ADEA’s Annual Session and Exhibition in Washington, D.C.,
Saturday, February 27, 2010.
5. The
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine has a special admissions program
called R.O.S.E. for Ohio
residents.
6. Brigham and Women’s
Hospital, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical College offers a Summer
Training in Academic Research and Scholarship Program. (They sent the announcement on January 12,
with a deadline of January 15, so I have sent an e-mail inquiry for clarification.)
7. Differences
remain over what health care bill will look like. From CNN news.com.
8. The situation in Haiti is that bad…really.
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1. Events coming up.
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
12:45 to 1:45 p.m.
CW 105
Master Sergeant Raymond Archambo:
“An
introduction to U.S. Air Force Medical Scholarships”
Refreshments will be served
For more information, contact Dr. Eisen, seisen@cbu.edu
, or 321-3447.
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Thursday,
January 21:
Workshop Sessions for Academic
Improvement I (basic study skills, self assessment, self motivation,
etc.) Thomas Center Conference Room,
1:00-1:50 p.m.; Conducted by Sadie Lisenby, Director of Counseling.
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2. ===AAMC
STAT===: News from the Association
of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) – January 11, 2010 edition.
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News from the Association of American Medical Colleges
January
11, 2010
• AAMC
op-ed calls on Congress to address physician shortage
• AAMC makes
recommendations for final health care legislation
• MACPAC members
announced
• Call for papers
on comparative effectiveness research
• On the move
AAMC
op-ed calls on Congress to address physician shortage
AAMC President and CEO Darrell G. Kirch, M.D., authored an opinion article
published in The
Wall Street Journal on Jan. 5 that discusses the importance of
lifting the cap on residency training slots funded by Medicare as
Congress works to finalize health care reform legislation. “How to Fix the Doctor
Shortage”
notes that while the U.S. medical school class-size expands, "the
overall per capita supply of doctors in the country will decline without an
expansion in the number of residency training positions." Additionally,
the article states "while the cost to add new physicians is significant,
it is less than 1% of current Medicare expenditures and an essential
investment if people are to have timely access to a physician's care."
Information: Go to http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703483604574630321885059520.html
AAMC
makes recommendations for final health care legislation
On
Dec. 30, AAMC President and CEO Darrell G. Kirch, M.D., sent a letter to congressional
leadership working to reconcile differences between the House-passed
“Affordable Health Care for America Act” and the Senate-passed “Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act.” In the letter, the AAMC calls for
a 15 percent increase in Medicare-supported physician training slots, reform
of Medicare’s physician payment methodology, a decrease in cuts to
disproportionate share hospital payments, and the removal of Senate
provisions creating an independent payment advisory board, which would craft
and implement major policy changes with limited congressional input.
Information:
Go to www.aamc.org/advocacy/library/gme/corres/2009/123009.pdf
MACPAC
members announced
The
U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has announced the appointment of 17 members to the new
Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Payment and Access
Commission (MACPAC). MACPAC was established by the CHIP reauthorization
act of 2009. The commission is an independent federal body that will
advise Congress on issues affecting the CHIP and Medicaid programs. Its
members are comprised of professionals with expertise in the financing and
delivery of health care. Commission members from AAMC-member
institutions include Herman Gray, M.D., M.B.A., and Sara Rosenbaum, J.D.
Information: Go to http://www.gao.gov/press/macpac_2009dec23.html
Call
for papers on comparative effectiveness research
Academic
Medicine
is seeking papers on comparative effectiveness research (CER) for a special issue
to be published next year. With CER the major focus of health policy
interest and activity in the context of both health care reform and the
American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, this collection will examine the
implications of CER for medical schools and teaching hospitals and discuss
how the academic medicine community can contribute to this research.
Prospective authors can submit manuscript proposals that do not exceed 300
words directly to the journal at www.editorialmanager.com/acadmed. All
proposals should be received by Jan. 31. 60;
Information:
Go to www.academicmedicine.org.
On
the Move
Michael
L. Good, M.D., became the dean of the University of Florida College of
Medicine effective Jan. 1. Good previously served as the school’s
interim dean.
Kate Walsh will become the next president and CEO of Boston Medical Center
(BMC). Walsh is currently the executive vice president and chief
operating officer of Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She will succeed Elaine
Ullian, who had served in the position since BMC’s founding in 1996. Walsh
will begin on March 1.
Jay C. Williamson, M.D., C.P.E., will begin serving as interim dean of the
College of Medicine at Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine
and Pharmacy on Jan. 15. Williamson currently serves as the associate
dean for clinical sciences.
January
Academic
Medicine
Journal
editor-in-chief Steven Kanter, M.D., invites creative, imaginative,
innovative, and feasible responses to his 2010 Question of the Year: What are
the most effective ways to make medical school tuition and fees free to
students in exchange for public service? Responses should be submitted in
the form of a 750-word essay with no more than three references. As
many as five responses will be published in the journal. To read more
about the 2010 Question of the Year, see Dr. Kanter’s editorial in the
January issue of Academic
Medicine. Other topics covered in this issue include
managing conflicts of interest and the well-being of students and trainees at
academic medical centers. www.academicmedicine.org
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3. Inside
OME: December 2009/Jan. 2010 combined
issue, from the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine
(AACOM™)
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Dec. 2009 / Jan. 2010
Vol. 3, No. 12 / Vol. 4, No. 1
Past Issues
Campus Roundup
CCOM
Professor Named ACOI Internist of the Year
KCUMB-COM
Selected to Participate in Prestigious GWISH Initiative
MSU
Researchers Creating Model of HIV Care for Developing Nations
OU-COM
Dean Receives Distinguished ACOS Award
PCSOM
Offers OMSP Program for High School Seniors
RVUCOM
Hosts Kaplan Suture Clinic
VCOM
Partners with Virginia Tech's Pamplin College for New Dual-Degree Program
WVSOM
Welcomes JCO Students
Western
U/COMP Announces New Satellite Site Dean
Upcoming Deadlines
Jan. 15, 2010
Application
Deadline: 2010 National Academy of Osteopathic Medical Educators
Feb. 19, 2010
Annual
Meeting Early Registration Deadline
March 1, 2010
Application
Deadline: 2011 Osteopathic Health Policy Intern Program
March 31, 2010
Application
Deadline: Sherry R. Arnstein Minority Student Scholarships
AACOM Sponsored
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discounted or free, up-to-date cell/data technology. Renew your current
contract within 90 days of expiration and receive many cost-saving
benefits. Click below for information on all the AACOM discount programs,
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From the President
Stephen C. Shannon, DO, MPH
 Student
Debt, the National Health Service Corps and Other Programs that Can Help
Dr. Shannon reports on the debt load that many osteopathic medical students
accrue, and shares information on programs that can both help mitigate the
debt and benefit those most in need. Read
more
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News and Events
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AACOM
Report Shows Plans for Continued Growth in Osteopathic Medical Education
According to a preliminary report on the growth plans of colleges of
osteopathic medicine, 6,297 new students will matriculate into the
colleges in 2015, a 23.4 percent increase over the fall 2009 cohort. Read
more
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AACOM
Board Convenes
The AACOM Board of Deans recently convened for its annual Fall Retreat
and Meeting. Read
more
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Interim
Presidents Named
Interim Presidents have been appointed at Kansas City University of
Medicine and Biosciences and Pacific Northwest University of Health
Sciences. Read
more
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AACOM
2010 Annual Meeting Registration Now Open
Plan now to attend, and register before February 19 to take advantage of
early-bird registration rates. Read
more
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AACOM
to Sponsor COM Day on Capitol Hill
As part of its 2010 Annual Meeting, AACOM will be coordinating meetings
for each of the COMs with federal legislators and their staffs. Read
more
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Deadline
Fast-Approaching for Applications to the 2010 National Academy of Osteopathic
Medical Educators
The National Academy of Osteopathic Medical Educators is a community of
outstanding educators who have met rigorous standards of academic
excellence within the last five years. Read
more
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AACOM
Now Accepting Applications for 2010 Sherry R. Arnstein Minority Student
Scholarships
This award recognizes two underrepresented minority students at AACOM's
member colleges of osteopathic medicine (one newly accepted student and
one continuing student). Read
more
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NBOME
Celebrates 75th Anniversary, Installs New Board Members
In December, the National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners (NBOME)
closed out its 75th anniversary year, installing new officers and Board
members and introducing a recently published history of the organization.
Read
more
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AOF
Accepting Award, Grant and Scholarship Applications
The American Osteopathic Foundation (AOF) is now accepting applications
for a wide variety of awards, grants and scholarships. Read
more
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Duke
University Announces Faculty Mini-fellowships in Evidence-Based Medicine
in Geriatrics
Duke University's Donald W. Reynolds Program for Faculty Development to
Advance Geriatrics Education is offering five scholarships to physician
faculty. Read
more
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Federal Updates
For current information on health reform and other important AACOM
public policy issues, please go to Advocacy
Issues and Initiatives and visit topic areas of interest.
Additionally, see the following websites for further information on
health reform developments:
American Osteopathic
Association
Engelberg Center
for Health Care Reform at Brookings
Kaiser Family Foundation
Kaiser Health News
Medical Education
Futures Study
New England Journal of
Medicine: Health Care Reform 2009
Politico
Reuters
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
AACOM
Council
News and Updates
Council of Student Financial Aid
Administrators (CSFAA)
Council of Osteopathic Student Government
Presidents (COSGP)
Now Available!
Glossary
of Osteopathic Terminology, Revised 4/09
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4. The American Dental Education Association (ADEA) announces
an ADEA Workshop and Recruitment Fair for Predental
Students and Advisors in conjunction with ADEA’s Annual Session
and Exhibition in Washington, D.C., Saturday, February 27, 2010.
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The American Dental Education Association is pleased to
announce an ADEA Workshop and Recruitment Fair
for Predental Students and Advisors in
conjunction with ADEA’s Annual Session and Exhibition in Washington, D.C.
Please share this information with your students:
ADEA Workshop and Recruitment Fair for Predental
Students and Advisors
Saturday, February 27, 2010, 10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Gaylord National Harbor, Washington, D.C.
This interactive workshop and
recruitment fair is targeted to high school and college students, plus
advisors and counselors in the mid-Atlantic region. It offers something for
everyone—ranging from students who are just beginning to explore careers to
those who have already set their sights on dental school.
Participants will learn about
careers in dentistry, what dental school is all about, and hear tips from
admissions officers about submitting a successful application. Current
students and recent graduates will talk about their experiences and the
challenges they overcame to realize their career goals. Participants
can meet and talk with admissions officers from dental schools throughout the
U.S., can learn about financing a dental education, and can learn about
enrichment programs to better prepare for dental school.
Registration:
· Registration is free. Go to www.adea.org/GoDental to register. (We ask that participants register to
ensure that we have enough meals for everyone.)
· Lunch will be provided at no cost to participants.
A limited amount of travel
stipends are available to individuals and school groups traveling from
outside the Metropolitan Washington, D.C. area. To request details, contact
us at adeadivisionofeducationalpathways@adea.org
If you have questions, please
contact us at: adeadivisionofeducationalpathways@adea.org.
Attached the agenda for the event, a fact sheet, and an
announcement that you can forward to students. If you do not receive the
attachments with this message—attachments are stripped from listserv messages
at some schools--contact Drake Washington (washingtond@adea.org) who can forward
them to you individually.
All
the best for a wonderful holiday!
Anne
Wells, Ed.D., Associate Executive Director
Division of Educational Pathways
American Dental Education Association
The Voice of Dental Education
1400 K Street NW, Suite 1100, Washington, DC 20005
Voice 202-289-7201
Fax 202-289-7204
wellsa@adea.org
www.adea.org
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5.
The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine has
a special admissions program called R.O.S.E.
for Ohio residents.
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The University of
Cincinnati College of Medicine has a special admissions program called R.O.S.E.
and we are looking for high-ability pre-med students that fit a very
specific criteria to apply to this unique early assurance program. We
hope that you will help us find talented students that are passionate about
becoming a physician and learning more about medical research.
What is
R.O.S.E.?
The University of
Cincinnati College of Medicine offers a unique early assurance acceptance
program called R.O.S.E. (Research, Observation, Service, and Education.)
R.O.S.E. students enjoy:
· Two (consecutive)
summer research internships with a biomedical focus.
· Summer internships
last 8-10 weeks and take place in Cincinnati. Students are provided a stipend
of $2500.
· An early assurance guarantee
for our M.D. program provided that they earn an MCAT Score of 30+ (no less
than a 9 in any category) and an AMCAS calculated BCPM of 3.45+ and 3.40
cumulative.
· Mentorship from our
faculty and support from our Office of Student Affairs and Recruitment.
· Shadowing
opportunities with UCCOM faculty, students, and alumni.
Who can apply?
R.O.S.E. is
designed for high ability, intellectually curious pre-medical college
students. To be considered for this program, students must meet
all of the following criteria:
· Applicants must be Ohio
residents but can attend college anywhere in the world.
· Students must have
a solid academic record.
· Students must have
at two full summers available for the internship as a college student.
When do students
need to apply?
The application is
now available online at www.med.uc.edu/ROSE. All applications and
supplementary materials must be received by February 15, 2010 to be
considered for the program.
Where can students
find more information on R.O.S.E.?
Please direct all
interested students to our web site www.med.uc.edu/ROSE. The
online application is also located here.
If you or any of
your advisees have questions regarding this program, please do not hesitate
to contact me directly.
Best wishes,
Nikki Bibler
Nikki Bibler, M.Ed., Assistant Director, Student
Affairs and Recruitment Programs
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
French East Building
3202 Eden Avenue, Room 229
PO Box 670668
Cincinnati, OH 45267-0668
(513) 558-5581, (513) 558-6259- fax
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6. Brigham and
Women’s Hospital, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical College offers
a Summer Training in Academic Research and Scholarship Program. (They sent the announcement on January 12,
with a deadline of January 15, so I have sent an e-mail inquiry for
clarification.)
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7. Differences
remain over what health care bill will look like. From CNN news.com.
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Differences remain over what health care bill will look like
From Brianna Keilar, CNN congressional
correspondent
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- House is back in
session this week
- Democratic leaders
working to merge House, Senate health care bills
- Public option,
abortion, funding are key sticking points
- House liberals fear
that Senate bill would hit labor union members
(CNN) -- In the three weeks since the Senate passed its version
of health care reform, Democratic leaders, the White House and
rank-and-file members of Congress have been working behind the scenes to
find common ground between the House and Senate bills.
Negotiations are expected to pick up as House lawmakers return to
Capitol Hill this week. The Senate is back in session next week.
The two bills emerged after months of hearings, raucous town halls and
rowdy protests. The House passed its version of the bill in November; the
Senate voted on its plan Christmas Eve.
While Democrats proclaimed major progress with the votes, they now must
take one of the toughest steps as they try to reconcile the differences
between the two bills.
Senior Democratic sources said last week that Democrats are prepared to
short-circuit the traditional legislative process of a formal conference
committee comprising House and Senate members to exclude their Republican
counterparts during final congressional health
care deliberations.
Obama gave his blessing for that move last week, two congressional
Democratic leadership sources said.
But even among Democrats, there are a lot of differences over what the
final bill should look like.
"The Senate thinks theirs is fairer. We think ours is. We'll see
which mirror cracks. But we will proceed in a way that is fair to the
American people," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said last week.
The biggest sticking point is the government-backed public option. The House bill calls for one, but moderate Democrats
succeeded in cutting the public option from the Senate bill.
Because of that, Pelosi is no longer insisting on a public option, but
she is demanding that health care be affordable for low- and middle-income
Americans.
"There are other ways to do that, and we look forward to having
those discussions as we reconcile the bills," said Pelosi,
D-California.
She is pushing for more government subsidies to help people buy
insurance.
Abortion is also a point of contention between anti-abortion and abortion-rights
Democrats. The House bill is more restrictive, though both bills ban
taxpayer dollars from funding abortions.
And still up in the air is how to pay for health care reform. The House
plan is projected to guarantee coverage for 96 percent of Americans at a
cost of more than $1 trillion over the next 10 years, according to the
nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. The Senate plan is projected to
cover 94 percent of Americans with an $871 billion price tag over the next
10 years, according to the agency.
The House plan pays for health care reform with a 5.4 percent surtax on
incomes for those making more than $500,000 a year, as well as families
earning more than $1 million. It also includes a 2.5 percent tax on medical
devices sold in the United States.
The Senate
plan increases the Medicare payroll tax on individuals earning more than
$200,000 and couples earning more than $250,000 from the current 1.45
percent to 2.35 percent. The Senate bill also imposes a new tax on insurers
that provide so-called Cadillac health plans valued at more than $8,500 for
individuals and $23,000 for families.
House liberals are concerned that the Senate bill would hit labor union
members.
"The last thing we want to do is penalize people who have managed
and negotiate, however they've negotiated for themselves, good health
care," said Rep. Donna Edwards, D-Maryland.
Obama planned to meet with union leaders at the White House on Monday to
talk about health care reform.
The House Tri-Committee staff -- from the three committees that drafted
the bill -- released an 11-page document detailing what needs to be ironed
out between the House and Senate bills.
Read
the document (PDF)
The document also pointed to "substantial
similarities that will greatly facilitate the final step of developing an
agreement on a bill for the President's signature."
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Find this article at:
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8. The situation in Haiti is that bad…really.
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From: The Los
Angeles Times.com, By Cara Mia DiMassa and Alexandra Zavis,
January 14, 2010
Tectonics and poor construction conspired to create devastation in Haiti
The earthquake was a massive, shallow eruption beneath a heavily
populated area that lacked stringent building standards, resulting in
catastrophe.
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A woman tries to help rescue a survivor whose voice she
heard from beneath the collapsed Haitian Department of Justice building in
Port-au-Prince. (Carolyn
Cole / Los Angeles Times / January 13, 2010)
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The catastrophic quake that struck
Haiti on Tuesday involved a collision of lethal circumstances: a massive,
shallow eruption below a densely populated city with few, if any, building
codes.
The magnitude 7.0 quake occurred near the boundary between two major tectonic
plates, the Caribbean and North American plates.
Most of the movement along these plates is what is known as left-lateral
strike-slip motion, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, with the
Caribbean plate moving eastward in relation to the North America plate.
Kate Hutton, a seismologist at Caltech, said the quake was similar to those
seen along the San Andreas fault: It was shallow, a fact that enhances the
intensity and makes it more localized to the region right along the fault.
"We are not surprised by any of it," Hutton said.
The Haiti quake had many similarities to the 1989 Loma Prieta quake in
Northern California. That quake, said Tom Heaton, director of Caltech's
Earthquake Engineering Research Laboratory, "caused a lot of damage, but
it wasn't a disaster like this in terms of the number of people injured and
killed."
For engineers and others well versed in the strict guidelines that
California, Japan and other quake-prone zones mandate, the devastation seen
in Haiti -- and other developing countries that have been hit by similarly
sized temblors -- is horrifying but understandable. They blame the high
numbers of earthquake fatalities in developing countries on poor building
construction and rapid urban growth.
Before about 1950, a given-sized earthquake would do about the same amount of
damage in the developed and underdeveloped world, said Ross Stein, a
geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, Calif. Now the
loss of life is typically 10 times higher in developing countries and the
damage can be as much as 100 times higher, he said.
When a magnitude 7.9 earthquake rocked China's Sichuan province in 2008,
schools, hospitals and other public buildings collapsed, contributing to the
huge toll -- about 87,000 dead and missing. Shoddy school construction was
blamed for the deaths of about 5,000 children.
The Chinese government was criticized for failing to impose strict building
regulations, which it pledged to remedy.
Farzad Naeim, president of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute,
said that the quake in Haiti demonstrates "the same bad history, the
nightmare, being repeated over and over again."
Naeim said that older construction in the region was built at a time when
"people didn't know better." And new construction, he said, has not
kept pace with advances in earthquake engineering, including reinforcements
that are standard for new construction in California.
Turkey had a "very advanced code" in 1999 when a magnitude 7.4
earthquake killed at least 17,000 people, said Stein, who has worked
extensively in the country. But the government left it to contractors to do
their own inspections, he said.
In a city like Istanbul, "you are not really going to get anywhere by
making rules," he said. "Many, many people are just pouring into
the area without anything, and they knock down some trees and put a tent up.
And the next year it's a shack. And the next year it's kind of a building.
And the next year they start adding a floor as their family grows or other relatives
come into the area.
"So here I am worrying about construction standards, but in reality so
many of the buildings are built without any ownership, without any architect
or engineer or anything," Stein said.
"What you have to do is train people to build stronger buildings with
the means at their disposal."
Brian Tucker heads a Palo Alto-based group, GeoHazards International, that
works with communities in developing countries to do just that. But he said
that people "tend to treat earthquake disasters as God-given and
controlled by God," especially in countries with many other pressing
problems.
"I try to respectfully tell people that the earthquake disaster is in
our hands," he said. "It's not like a comet coming from out of
space that you have no way of anticipating."
Stein, of the USGS, said that part of the problem is that scientists have
spent much of their time trying to understand the earthquake risks in
California, Japan and other well-off parts of the world with high seismic
hazards, while ignoring poorer and more densely populated parts of the world.
That's why the United Nations Development Program and other international
agencies have been helping vulnerable countries -- including Jordan, Bhutan,
China, Fiji, India and Iran -- to improve planning for earthquakes. The U.N.
advises governments to upgrade schools, hospitals and other public buildings
to better withstand earthquakes; to impose stricter building codes; and to
develop evacuation, rescue and contingency plans.
Jordan Ryan, director of the UNDP crisis bureau, said his agency estimates
that 60 million people have been affected by quakes in the last 10 years.
Ryan said there had been progress in getting the issue onto the agenda of
some governments. "It's a very difficult argument to make," he
said.
"It's like the old insurance argument: 'Who cares about prevention? We
don't have enough money. We're a poor country.' "
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